FAMILY & MARRIAGE COUNSELING GRANTS PASS, OREGON

» Statement Of APA President Nada Stotland, M.D. On Abortion And Mental Health
A recently released report on mental health and abortion confirms the position of the American Psychiatric Association: abortion is not a risk to a woman's mental health. APA President Nada Stotland, M.D., an expert on women's mental health, made the following statement today: "As we have known, there is no convincing evidence that abortion is a significant cause of psychiatric illness. We must distinguish illnesses from feelings.

» Managing Psychiatric Meds In Transition To College Studied By Case Western Reserve University
An increasing number of students are packing more than their computers and iPods when leaving for college. They are bringing along prescribed psychiatric medications. Case Western Reserve University researchers will survey incoming students on how they manage psychiatric medications in the transition from home to college.

» Majority Of Spanish Teens Playing Sports Don't Smoke

A research work carried out in sample of teenagers aged between 13 and 18 from Granada, Madrid, Murcia, Santander and Zaragoza has analysed the relationship between sport activity and smoking. According to this work, 59.2 percent of the Spanish teens are physically active, although there are significant differences according to sex (71.1 percent of boys, as against 46.7 percent of girls).

read more

» APA Task Force Finds Single Abortion Not A Threat To Women's Mental Health
There is no credible evidence that a single elective abortion of an unwanted pregnancy in and of itself causes mental health problems for adult women, according to a draft report released Tuesday by a task force of the American Psychological Association.