Troubled kids kept waiting
11/22/2009 3:23:43 PM
November 22, 2009 Nov. 22--If you want to get in to see Rick Gertesma, you'd better plan ahead.

Mental health cases tax police, emergency workers
11/22/2009 3:23:43 PM
November 21, 2009 BURLINGTON, Vt. - Police found him sitting on the floor of his old apartment near a bucket of urine, still dressed in his hospital gown.

Why do we hate?
11/22/2009 3:23:43 PM
November 18, 2009 SPOKANE, Wash. - Why did the Nazis hate the Jews? Why did the Hutus hate the Tutsis?

Army says morale down among troops in Afghanistan
11/22/2009 3:23:43 PM
November 13, 2009 WASHINGTON - Morale has fallen among soldiers in Afghanistan, where troops are seeing record violence in the 8-year-old war, while those in Iraq show much improved mental health amid much lower violence, the Army said Friday.

Dark chocolate eases emotional stress
11/22/2009 3:23:43 PM
November 12, 2009 LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Nov 12, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Swiss scientists say people who are stressed and reach for dark chocolate -- the "chocolate cure" -- do seem to experience less emotional stress.

International award for Temple researcher
11/22/2009 3:23:43 PM
November 12, 2009 Nov. 12--Temple University professor Laurence Steinberg will take his research on teen brain development and risky behavior international with a $1 million award he received yesterday.

Number of wounded troops in Afghanistan increasing
11/22/2009 3:23:43 PM
November 11, 2009 WASHINGTON - Far from winding down, the numbers of U.S. soldiers coming home wounded have continued to swell. The problem is especially acute among those fighting in Afghanistan, where nearly four times as many troops were injured in October as a year ago.

Shortage of military therapists creates strain
11/22/2009 3:23:43 PM
November 07, 2009 WASHINGTON - Amputations. Combat stress. Divorce. Suicide. For every physical and mental strain on service members, there's often a military therapist at their side.

Mental-health professionals speculate on what went wrong
11/22/2009 3:23:43 PM
November 07, 2009 Nov. 7--As an Army psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan treated soldiers with post-traumatic stress and mental disorders.

Mental-health help on college campuses increases
11/22/2009 3:23:43 PM
November 02, 2009 Nov. 2--Mental-health counselors at La Salle University were feeling overwhelmed, their appointment books packed with students in need of help, seemingly more so than ever.