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E.C.I.S.D. school students now have access to mental health care through their smartphone

"The parents give written permission, but they can be accessible through ... 4 to 6 students a week in Ector County, but he hopes to bring it to the Midland Independent School District. Also, busy wor... read more

The Coddling of the American Mind review – how elite US liberals have turned rightwards

In the decade since the 2008 global financial crisis, while all other forms of consumer debt have shrunk, student ... a mental health crisis because of smartphone addiction and the paranoid parenting ... read more

Is Screen Time a Serious Threat to Mental Health?

(Phil Boorman/Getty Images) Parents have been ... to Apple calling smartphone use a public health crisis, urging the company to create tools for parents to better control their kids' usage and to stud... read more

Smartphone use linked to behavioral problems in kids

The study focuses on the mental health ... one-third of their day — nearly nine hours — using online media. A separate survey published last month by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preventio... read more

ThriveOn Wants To Make Mental Health Care Affordable And Accessible

So much is at stake, both financially and for the one in five Americans who have experienced a psychological issue, that it’s surprising how few tech companies focus on mental health. Now ThriveOn ... ... read more

Helping teens turn off in a world that's 'always on': The links between technology and depression

For students that are already prone to mental health ... now requiring it so those parents have little choice in the matter," she said. Kathleen Bobber, social worker at Sandburg High School, said the... read more

Be SMART about SMARTPHONES: Parents should weigh risks, benefits for their kids

“They can have a personal conversation with friends or check in with parents at home.” When YSD enacted the smartphone policy three school years ago, a survey of the district’s high school students fo... read more

Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation awards $2.3 million to OSU for rural health-care initiative

“Through Project ECHO, rural providers can acquire the knowledge to treat many of their ... of the Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation. “The work OSU Center for Health Sciences is doing to advance care d... read more

Mental illness running high among uni students

Researchers have found ... university students are reporting higher levels of psychological distress and significantly more than that in the general population," she said. Dr Stallman screened more th... read more

A New Kind Of Treatment May Change How We Think About Depression

The ongoing discussion about mental health in the United States has largely centered on gaps in access to care, but — particularly for the nearly 20 percent of Americans who experts say will endure ma... read more