More than mood swings, clinical depression is a chemical imbalance in the brain. It creates changes in mood, cognition, physical well-being and behavior. Depression can be triggered by ...
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Employee depression
How employee depression affects the bottom line As employers seek better ways to maximize workforce productivity and company-sponsored health benefits, considering the role of depression is ...
Employer health benefits
Milestone report A new groundbreaking report released in Dec. 2005 is a road map employers can use to examine current services and develop contracting requirements for effective behavioral health ...
Return on investment
Equalized coverage for behavioral health Correlation between employer costs and equalized coverage Do insurance costs skyrocket with equalized health benefits coverage? No, says a 2006 research ...
Workplace depression
Depressed workers lose about 5.6 hours of productive time on the job each week, compared with 1.5 hours for workers who are not depressed, according to a June 2003 report in the Journal of the ...
Reinventing yourself
After a 40-year career in broadcasting followed by thoughts of suicide in 1997, Dave Robinson is now a senior peer counselor in Sacramento, Calif. “I went to zero,” he recalls of that low time in ...
Screening for risk
She is a nurse. He is a physician, board certified in family practice. Together they have five children. Yet, like many adults, they were unable to see the signs of mental illness and potential ...
School success
Enhancing academics through prevention It’s a troubling thought, one that adults may have a tough time comprehending. The idea that a young person, supposedly in the “prime of their life,” could ...
Creative curriculum
Class act Applying emotional perspective to literature can enrich learning and educate students about relevant mental health issues tagrating mental health education with general classroom ...
Legislative pioneer
U.S. Senator Harry Reid on suicide prevention As a survivor of the suicide loss of his father, Sen. Harry Reid calls on a very personal tragedy to influence mental health policy in our nation A ...