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Parents Are in Crisis: A Developmental Framework Can Offer Support

NonProfit Quarterly

That is, we must increase awareness about the various biological and psychological changes parents are undergoing, and extend that understanding into the broader ecological systems in which they are embedded. An overhaul of the reproductive healthcare and family welfare policies are long overdue.

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What is Climate Psychology? An Interview with Climate Psychology Alliance’s Rebecca Weston

NonProfit Quarterly

We sat down with clinician and advocate Rebecca Weston to talk about climate psychology, movement journalism, and the responsibility of journalists and clinicians to connect to the emotional impacts of the climate crisis. What is climate psychology? That’s one big part of what climate psychology does. “

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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. Problems of cost, of course, are rooted in economic injustice, racial injustice, and the commodification of profit-motivated healthcare in the United States.

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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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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 effects of social isolation stress and discrimination on mental health, Translational Psychology 12, no.

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The Art Effect: Neuroaesthetics and the Future of Health Equity

NonProfit Quarterly

According to Magsamen and Ross, rigorous studies by epidemiologist Daisy Fancourt show that the arts help cardiometabolic diseases, maternal healthcare, early childhood development, and more. Health scientist Tasha Golden, who led CultureRxs pilot program evaluation, emphasizes the need for systemic change in healthcare.

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Building Boundaries in Love for Equity and Justice: An AI Manifesto

NonProfit Quarterly

8 This concern is valid, as AI has already begun reshaping such sectors as manufacturing, healthcare, and legal services.9 15 Continuous surveillance also has a profound psychological impact, fostering an atmosphere of fear and hyper-vigilance that undermines mental health and wellbeing.16