Tag: Perspective
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Culture & Mental Health: Suicide in Japan vs. Suicide among Japanese Americans
MENTAL HEALTH IN JAPAN Japan’s suicide rate is the sixth highest in the world and the second worst among eight major industrialized nations. While the number of people who’ve taken their own life has declined from about 30,000 to 21,897 in 2016, the lowest level in 22 years, there’s an increasing trend of suicide among…
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A Behaviorist’s Perspective on the Measles Outbreak
The refrigerator mother theory may appear to be a small footnote in the history of autism, but its impact has had a profound effect on the autistic community. This post is meant to provide context and perspective for one of the growing threats to global health: vaccine hesitancy – the reluctance or refusal to vaccinate…
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