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Mental Health and Wellness Topics
It's easy to know your child needs help dealing with a fever or a broken bone, but mental health problems can be harder to identify. The tricky part of parenting is knowing the kinds of behaviors and
moods that are usual for the stage of development your child is in - and when your child has gone beyond the norm and needs help.
Despite historical stigma, 'Companions in the Darkness' by Diana Gruver sheds light on depression through the lives of saints, offering lessons and hope for sufferers and caregivers
This video offers some ideas for designing a funeral or memorial service for someone who has died by suicide. It also includes a list of do’s and don’t’s for reducing the chance of suicide contagion. A memorial service, no matter how the person died, should be a time for healing and remembrance. It is not a time for judging.
Since liturgy and worship have a pastoral heart, World Mental Health Day offers a particularly appropriate occasion in which faith communities can open their arms in response to the challenging question in St Matthew‟s Gospel
A short video with Dr. George Williams, that discusses AI mental health
How Congregations Can Respond. Resource/Study Guide for Clergy and Communities of Faith
If you have depression, PTSD, or another mental health condition, you are protected against discrimination and harassment at work because of your condition, you have workplace privacy rights, and you may have a legal right to get reasonable accommodations that can help you perform and keep your job.
Nuestra Visión es ser el referente nacional en programas de concientización, prevención, capacitación y apoyo en temas de salud mental. Nuestra misión es Construir una cultura de concientización, prevención, formación y acompañamiento para la promoción de la salud mental y el bienestar emocional de la comunidad.
4 Facts About Mental Illness and Violence from Washington University School of Social Work
The booklet acknowledges the common interests shared by medicine and religion in the welfare of young individuals. It then describes multiple mental health challenges faced by LGBT youth, including suicide, depression, anxiety, substance use, bullying, and homelessness.
Worries about school work affect about two-fifths of children, the research found
Tips for Persons Living with a Mental Illness and for their Family and Friends
The resources featured in this section reflect a variety of faith or spiritual traditions and perspectives. We hope that, to the degree possible, most faith leaders regardless of tradition, philosophy, sect or denomination, will be able to find materials here that are useful in their ministry.
A quarterly resource newsletter that provides resources to erase the stigma of mental illness in our faith communities and create caring congregations for persons living with mental health challenges and their families.
Daily mindful mediation can help prevent your mind from wandering and help with anxious thoughts.
After thirty years as a parish minister, Robert W. Griggs shares his recovery from major depression, offering insights and hope through candid stories, Psalms, and films.
A resource list of famous people throughout time who have dealt with mental illnesses. People like Isaac Newton, Abraham Lincoln, Virginia Woolf, John Nash, Carrie Fisher and more.
This article summarizes the results of a growing body of evidence documenting Blacks’ diminished return, defined as a systematically smaller health gain from economic resources and psychological assets for Blacks in comparison to Whites.
A fantastic and much-needed resource for the church, Fresh Hope, emphasizes wellness and empowers active participation in healing; it was founded by Brad Hoefs, who was diagnosed with Bipolar I Disorder in 1995.
Here are a few guidelines to follow in order to include someone living with mental illness into your congregation
This handout contains a multitude of scriptures for clergy to use during the National Day of Prayer regarding multiple mental illness topics
A quarterly resource newsletter that provides resources to erase the stigma of mental illness in our faith communities and create caring congregations for persons living with mental health challenges and their families.
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