Mental Health

Veterans on Patrol runs controversial, sometimes illegal, camps to get chronically homeless vets off the street.

The military has a long history of using games in training, but troops also enjoy playing video games during their downtime, and some military gaming communities even help

The psychiatrist and innovator in the field of family therapy died last week at the age of 96. 

Guests: Lily Raff McCaulou, Melissa Jeltsen, Allison Anderman The plague of mass shootings in America continued t ...

A Harvard research study spanning 80 years that looked into the life and health trajectories of well over a thousand people offers some i ...

Emotional health concerns continue to impact a "significant number" of hard-hit Superstorm Sandy survivors, according to a Monmouth University Poll survey.

University of Pennsylvania researchers want to try to reduce something called the “research to practice gap” in mental health.

There’s a new study on romantic relationships titled “My life has become a major distraction from my cell phone.” ...

More people die by suicide than by motor vehicle crashes. And if you think you are immune, you are not.

WHYY hosted a series of public events relating to the series, and we asked attendees to tell us about how the Vietnam War still affects them today.

Friendship and joy were the themes of a 2017 Fringe play produced by SpArc Services Cultural Arts Center in Philadelphia, which supports people with intellectual disabilities.

A measure signed into law by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie strengthens protections for those with developmental disabilities.

An estimated 85,000 people in Philadelphia live with depression. There may be more, so the city offered free screenings Thursday as part of National Depression Screening Day.

Research points to a weapon in the fight against depression that may sound counterintuitive: Sleep deprivation. In their weekly c ...

More than 6,000 people gathered in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Sunday for the city's annual Out of the Darkness walk for suicide prevention.