Science news articles about 'mental health workers'

... mental health strategy for the next five years. Dr Mohammed Al-Uzri, a Consultant ... benefiting from the training provided to Iraqi mental health workers in the US and UK. This is in addition to a centre ...

Under current law, patients must be admitted if they are brought in by police -- but not if they are brought in by a mental health worker. Commissioners seek a quick solution to the problem. ...

... Since the gruesome Mumbai terrorist attacks, mental health experts understandably have been in big demand here. But India, with 1.1 billion people, has only 4,000 ...

... neglect and abuse of the human rights of people with mental illness," said Associate Professor Harry Minas, ... "Poor facilities and lack of skilled mental health workers lead to poor or harmful treatment ...

... the fact that the majority (78%) agreed that mental health workers should have mandatory training in the subject" ... % in North America. "Despite this, UK sexual health strategies don't mention people ...

A survey of mental health workers found that although 80 percent felt sexual health promotion was an important part of their role, only 30 percent routinely discussed sexual ...

US psychologists are slamming therapies treating homosexuality as an illness, and warning mental health workers against promising patients their sexual orientations might be changed.