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Parents Are in Crisis: A Developmental Framework Can Offer Support

NonProfit Quarterly

In our individualist culture, parents undergoing this developmental shift often do so in isolation, with little to no assistance and, at times, with considerable resistance. An overhaul of the reproductive healthcare and family welfare policies are long overdue.

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The Challenges of Seeking Healthcare as a Neurodivergent Person

NonProfit Quarterly

However, despite the diversity in how people think and process information, and progress in recognizing neurodiversity, our healthcare system does little to accommodate neurodivergence. My experiences reflect the obstacles a neurodivergent person encounters when seeking or receiving healthcare.

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The App That Missed the Mark: A Black Woman’s Quest to Build AI That Heals, Not Just Fixes

NonProfit Quarterly

As both a Black woman and a clinical social worker, Amara spends her days helping other Black women navigate a mental healthcare system that often fails them. MindfulVibe, like much of the healthcare system, is designed for the massespeople who dont carry the weight of systemic oppression. But Amara knows better.

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When the Mouth Speaks, the Whole Person Heals: Bringing Integrative Community Therapy and Solidarity Care from Brazil’s Favelas to the United States

NonProfit Quarterly

And while technology can provide tools that can be very helpful to achieving our evolving healthcare and related social needs, human connection remains the pivotal key to healthcare as well as our overall health and wellbeing. The social fragmentation that our society is experiencing shows up first in the fraying of these networks.

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How the Climate Crisis is Changing Mental Healthcare

NonProfit Quarterly

Several mental healthcare initiatives are approaching care by mobilizing those experiencing eco-anxiety to channel their emotions toward climate action. Environmental Mental Healthcare in the Global South In many countries in the Global South, making mental healthcare truly accessible and intersectional has been a challenge.

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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

4 In practice, thats proven difficulta systematic review of American healthcare data done in 2011 revealed high rates of re-identification, raising ethical concerns. 14 A dearth of mental health providers with the cultural understanding needed to work with NHPI youth can also lead to their misdiagnosis and underdiagnosis. 10 Only 35.1

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How Mobile Health Clinics Advance Health Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Missvain on Wikimedia Commons Equitable access to healthcare is a key element to lessening the racial health disparities that have existed throughout the history of the United States. Additionally, some mobile health clinic programs are structured to prepare and train a culturally responsive public health and nursing workforce.

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