Saturday, January 06, 2007
V. Conditions of Confinement: Mental Health
Human Rights Watch - needs for mental health interventions by professional mental health staff, including individual therapy and medication, as cutting is more prevalent among adolescent girls than other groups, and is usually diagnosed as a symptom of an anxiety disorder
Source: hrw.org
China Tightens Adoption Rules for Foreigners
New York Times - director of regional offices for the agency. “Some families were just turned down today. One was a couple where the husband had social anxiety disorder and takes Zoloft,” a violation of the new guidelines that bar people who are taking medication
Source: www.nytimes.com
Mental Health Disorders
KWWL - According to new research in the archives of general psychiatry, 31 percent of the population will have an anxiety disorder or depression and that advances have been made over the last several years both in psychotherapies and in medication
Source: www.kwwl.com
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