Depression Archives

04.24.2020 a woman smiling at the camera

Janet Currie

PHP Fellow Gray Babbs profiles Janet Currie to understand her perspective on Covid-19 as a professor and how the pandemic will affect child mental health.

Fellow Gray Babbs

Editor Nicholas Diamond

04.03.2020 a woman smiling at the camera

Sarah Lowe

Sarah Lowe of the Yale School of Medicine reflects on the state-of-the-science about mental health in a time of crisis and how Covid-19 changed her work.

Fellow Edward Alexander

Editor Nicholas Diamond

03.23.2020 a classroom with desks and chairs

Scripts After School Shootings

School shootings in America have become something of a new norm, yet little is known about how survivors cope over the following months and years.

Fellow Edward Alexander

03.04.2020 a close up of a helmet

Soldiers to Civilians

Veterans reported high work and social well-being during the first year after leaving service, illustrating the resilience of the newest generation.

Guest Authors Shelby Borowski, Dawne Vogt

02.21.2020 a group of hands holding balloons

A Sense of Purpose

Across the country, states with higher sense-of-purpose scores tended to have greater average wealth, as well as happier, healthier citizens.

Guest Authors Gemma Baugh, Gabrielle Pfund

02.11.2020 a black dog with its tongue out

Paw-sible Benefits of Dogs

Whether essential social support and companionship from dogs extends to significant changes in human well-being or mental health remains relatively unknown.

Fellow Greg Kantor

11.20.2019 a person's legs and shoes on a wet road

Depression During Development

Accumulating evidence indicates that depression and suicide have increased among US adolescents in the past decade in a historically unprecedented way.

Guest Author Katherine Keyes

10.02.2019 a man sitting on a bench

Incarcerations' Costs for Families

Evidence shows that children who experience a family member’s incarceration are at greater risk of experiencing negative health outcomes.

Guest Authors Ashley Provencher, James Conway

09.16.2019 a graph of the number of people with alcohol and suicide

The Suffering Generation

Premature deaths from suicide and alcohol or drug overdoses reflect record-high societal rates of anxiety and depression among Millennials.

Fellow Greg Kantor

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