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• The Power of Two
  Given the pressures in today’s world, would you welcome the opportunity to lessen your life stress and anxiety? Reduce your dysphoria and depression? Improve your physical health and sense of well-being? Even lengthen your [...]
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  COVID-19 Lockdowns and Violence: Attachment Theory Revisited
  As COVID-19 restrictions were lifted in 2022, people put aside masks, social distancing, and lockdown social isolation to venture out to restore a more normal life. Most found that the “old” normal had been [...]
• The Tenth Annual Report of The American Mental Health Foundation
  Annual Report of AMHF November 1, 2021, to October 31, 2022; on November 1, 2022, The American Mental Health Foundation will be 99 years in existence thus rapidly moving into 100. Few not-for-profit organizations [...]
• Violence as COVID-19 Lockdowns Are Eased
  It is happening everywhere. Adults are assaulted or shot in bars and entertainment venues. Teenagers and gang members kill each other in broad daylight. Children are murdered in their classrooms. Dinner guests who do [...]
• Dr. Raymond B. Flannery Jr. Joins The American Mental Health Foundation Board of Directors
  Raymond B. Flannery Jr., Ph.D., FACLP, a licensed clinical psychologist, is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. He has also served on the faculties of [...]
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  The Origin of Language by Dr. Henry Kellerman
  Now published and available by clicking here, The Origin of Language is an important new title from American Mental Health Foundation Books. Order your copy today, and in doing so you are also supporting [...]
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  Maureen McKew Joins The American Mental Health Foundation Board of Directors
  For 27 years, Maureen McKew has been associated with the Catechetical Office of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, first as a volunteer, then as a consultant and, for almost 15 years, as [...]
• Child Abuse, Natural Disasters, and Health Care Providers
  A busy pediatrician looked troubled and tense. He had seen this five-year old, Angela, once before two years ago. Then, it was a fall from some playground equipment her mother had said. Today, mom [...]
• Domestic Violence, Natural Disasters, and Health Care Providers
  “Home is where the heart is” is a common expression that connotes caring and support. However in some homes it means heartache, medical injury, psychological terror, and even death. Not all family values are [...]
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  The Assaulted Staff Action Program: 30 Years of Service to Employee Victims
  It happens. Violence suddenly erupts. It may be in homes, in schools, in factories, in houses of worship, or in the community’s streets. We know what happens. The first responders arrive. The assailant is [...]