Premium
AMHCA: Growing numbers of mental health distress point to looming crisis
Author(s) -
Canady Valerie A.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.32491
Subject(s) - looming , mental health , distress , covid-19 , development economics , political science , economic growth , psychiatry , psychology , medicine , economics , clinical psychology , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , cognitive psychology
Systemic racism, the COVID‐19 health crisis and an economic meltdown are the cataclysmic events that have caused significant increases in mental health and substance‐related disorders in the United States this year, according to a new report released Aug. 24 by the American Mental Health Counselors Association (AMHCA). Unless Congress, states and local communities act, the country faces an imminent national mental health crisis, say the authors.