CULTURE & HEALTH

Articles, stories, podcasts, etc. on mental health, cultural identities, and health equity

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What does 'white privilege' mean to you? We asked 18 people to discuss terms about race

What do we mean when we talk about race – and what do others hear?

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Report: World Support For Mental Health Care Is 'Pitifully Small'

A major report points out the lack of resources for mental health issues — and offers some possible solutions.

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The Mask You Live In - The Representation Project

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The How and Why of Trauma-Informed Teaching | Edutopia

In an extraordinary Twitter chat, educators discuss building trauma-informed social and emotional learning environments.

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Reuniting and Detaining Migrant Families Pose New Mental Health Risks

Experts say the parents and children split apart at the border could face difficult reunions. Holding them indefinitely could be even worse.

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Miscarrying at Work: The Physical Toll of Pregnancy Discrimination

Women in strenuous jobs lost their pregnancies after employers denied their requests for light duty, even ignoring doctors’ notes, an investigation by The New York Times has found.

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Why Other Women's Trauma Can Feel Like Your Own

Experts say national events like Christine Blasey Ford's testimony can make trauma and the reliving of it a collective experience.

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How Empathy Is Important For Parents And Teens When Things Get Stressful

Helping teenagers develop cognitive empathy, the ability to understand another person's perspective, can allow them to cope with stress better. But whether they accept help can be all in the phrasing.

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How Asian Immigrants Learn Anti-Blackness From White Culture, And How To Stop It

Stop perpetuating the standard that white = ideal.

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How We Can Chip Away at Implicit Bias and Structural Discrimination

Due to the structural discrimination that overrepresented Black families, many developed an implicit bias, or association between blackness and poverty.

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7 TED Talks on the link between health and racism

Learn about the detrimental (and even deadly) impact racism has on our minds and bodies — and what society can do to heal and support the wellbeing of all.

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When talking with students about mass shootings, you can't avoid addressing mental health. This TT staffer offers recommendations for ways you can talk about mental health with your students—without adding to the stigma already in place.

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Race Matters: How to Talk Effectively About Race - SocialWork.Career

To be able to talk about race effectively, as per Kenneth Hardy, Ph.D., one must prepare adequately and take on one's tasks of privilege or subjugation.

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How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime

Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer. An impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on.

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Radio Replay: The Mind Of The Village

A culture of racism can infect us all. On this week's radio show, we discuss the implicit biases we carry that have been forged by the society around us.

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After Suicides, a Texas Veterinary Community Opens Up | Death, Sex & Money | WNYC Studios

Veterinary medicine has a suicide rate that's one of the highest in the healthcare profession. For the veterinary community in Dallas, those statistics hit home last year.

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Donald Trump Is Devastating Our Mental Health

With his policies and his rhetoric.