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This World Is Exhausting, Don’T Let It Exhaust You: Setting Emotional Boundaries To Prevent Fatigue, Mary Kate Schutt
This World Is Exhausting, Don’T Let It Exhaust You: Setting Emotional Boundaries To Prevent Fatigue, Mary Kate Schutt
Population Health Research Brief Series
How can you show compassion and empathy without draining your emotional energy? This issue brief provides tips on how to set personal boundaries to prevent emotional exhaustion.
Protecting Your Mental Health During Covid-19, Ashley Van Slyke
Protecting Your Mental Health During Covid-19, Ashley Van Slyke
Population Health Research Brief Series
COVID-19 has presented an onslaught of change and uncertainty, leaving many people feeling isolated and disconnected. This brief describes strategies we can try to protect our mental health during this uncertain time.
Breaking Isolation: Self Care For When Coronavirus Quarantine Ends, Dessa Bergen-Cico
Breaking Isolation: Self Care For When Coronavirus Quarantine Ends, Dessa Bergen-Cico
Population Health Research Brief Series
This brief describes how prolonged periods of solitude affect our mental health and provides some strategies for how we can protect our mental and emotional health as we reengage with society.
Why Monitoring Your Media Consumption During Covid-19 Is Important, Dessa Bergen-Cico
Why Monitoring Your Media Consumption During Covid-19 Is Important, Dessa Bergen-Cico
Population Health Research Brief Series
Are you spending more time consuming media (news, television, video games) than before COVID-19? Social distancing and stay-at-home orders have led to a surge in media consumption. This brief explains how too much media consumption (including the news) can affect your psychological and physiological wellbeing and provides strategies for monitoring your media consumption.
Making Meaning During Coronavirus, Mary Kate Schutt
Making Meaning During Coronavirus, Mary Kate Schutt
Population Health Research Brief Series
If you’ve asked yourself, “Why is this happening? What’s the meaning of this?” you’re not alone. This brief discusses why meaning matters and how we might reflect on what we learned about ourselves from the COVID-19 pandemic to make more intentional meaning in our lives.
Covid-19: Playing The Long Game For Your Mental Health, Mary Kate Schutt
Covid-19: Playing The Long Game For Your Mental Health, Mary Kate Schutt
Population Health Research Brief Series
This issue brief provides a new lens to view the pandemic of COVID-19 and offers simple, practical, and action-oriented ways to mange your mental health for the long term during this time of uncertainty.
As Schools Close Due To The Coronavirus, Mental Health Care For Children Must Be Protected, Xiaoyan Zhang
As Schools Close Due To The Coronavirus, Mental Health Care For Children Must Be Protected, Xiaoyan Zhang
Population Health Research Brief Series
This data slice highlights the expansive nation-wide school closings due to COVID-19 and encourages providers and government bodies to support the mental health needs of students across the country.
How Well Do We Understand Mental Health?, Ashley Van Slyke
How Well Do We Understand Mental Health?, Ashley Van Slyke
Population Health Research Brief Series
Roughly 9.8 million adults in the United States, representing 4% of the U.S. adult population, have a diagnosis of a serious mental illness (SMI). An additional 16.1 million (6.7%) have a diagnosed depressive disorder. Millions more know people with serious mental illness or depression. Poor mental health is a massive and growing public health crisis. Its looming presence begs the question: Do we, as a society, truly understand different mental illnesses?
Gratitude As An Antidote To Anxiety And Depression: All The Benefits, None Of The Side Effects, Mary Kate Schutt
Gratitude As An Antidote To Anxiety And Depression: All The Benefits, None Of The Side Effects, Mary Kate Schutt
Population Health Research Brief Series
Despite efforts among health care professionals, schools, and workplaces to address mental health issues, anxiety and depression remain pervasive public health concerns. This issue brief discusses how emerging research suggests practicing Gratitude may be an alternative antidote to battling anxiety and depression.
A Simple Mindfulness Practice Can Improve Mental Health, Mary Kate Schutt
A Simple Mindfulness Practice Can Improve Mental Health, Mary Kate Schutt
Population Health Research Brief Series
Depression, anxiety, and related mental distress are rising at alarming rates in the U.S. This issue brief discusses the impacts of practicing mindfulness on mental health and well-being.