The ACE scoring method is illuminating the relationship between stresses that children face that lead to public health problems later in life. Awareness of those connections is growing in Battle Creek and elsewhere in Calhoun County.
With its nonthreatening familiarity and connection to the human brain, music gives therapists a door into teens’ emotions. Music therapy helps teens identify, verbalize, and study their emotions, empowering them to change the way they act and feel.
Con su familiaridad no amenazante y su conexión con el cerebro humano, la música ofrece a los terapeutas una puerta a las emociones de los adolescentes. La musicoterapia ayuda a los adolescentes a identificar, verbalizar y estudiar sus emociones, permitiéndoles cambiar la forma en que actúan y sienten.
Just over 40% of LGBTQ youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year; young people who are transgender, nonbinary, and/or people of color reported even higher rates than their peers. Help is available.
There are three components to BlackWellness Network: Bridging the gap in the level of care provided to African-American; breaking the negative stigma that has traditionally been attached to seeking mental health services, and building stronger Black and Brown communities.
It often takes months of experimentation to find an effective psychotropic drug. Up to half of patients with major depressive disorder do not respond to the first antidepressant prescribed. Kalamazoo's Genemarkers is among those offering a promising tool to address that issue: a test that can result in prescribing drugs with greater accuracy.
In the past 18 months, the Southwest Michigan Journalism Collaborative – a consortium of 12 regional media and community outlets – has published 70 stories on mental-health issues affecting local residents and organizations as part of its Mental Wellness Project.
Un objetivo principal al crear el centro fue desviar a las personas con problemas de salud mental del encarcelamiento y de las visitas a los departamentos de emergencia de los hospitales del área. En su primer mes, la policía del condado de Kalamazoo, incluidos los del municipio de Kalamazoo, Portage y el Departamento del Sheriff, recibieron 346 llamadas marcadas como problemas de salud conductual.
En los últimos 18 meses, la Southwest Michigan Journalism Collaborative -un grupo de 12 medios de comunicación locales y comunitarios- ha intensificado el debate publicando 70 reportajes sobre problemas de salud mental que afectan a residentes y organizaciones locales en el marco de su Proyecto de Bienestar Mental.
A menudo se necesitan meses de experimentación para encontrar un fármaco psicotrópico eficaz. Hasta la mitad de los pacientes con trastorno depresivo mayor no responden al primer antidepresivo prescrito. Genemarkers de Kalamazoo se encuentra entre los que ofrecen una herramienta prometedora para abordar ese problema: una prueba que puede dar como resultado la prescripción de medicamentos con mayor precisión.
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