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Mental Health Recovery, Self-Determination and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
Mental Health Recovery, Self-Determination and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
Wednesday, November 19, 2014: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Oral
What impacts mental health and mental illness? This session offers research designed to bring insight into this question. Stressors discussed will include child abuse and neglect, racial discrimination and physical disease. The session ends with a participatory model for recovery research that is grounded in a human rights perspective on health and mental health.
Session Objectives: Assess the effects of chronic stress and chronic child abuse on later mental health. Explain direct and indirect mechanisms linking psychological functioning to development of chronic disease. Discuss the racial/ethnic disparities in antenatal depression.
Moderator:
Margaret Walkover, MPH
12:30pm
12:50pm
1:10pm
1:30pm
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by: Mental Health
Endorsed by: Public Health Social Work, Asian Pacific Islander Caucus for Public Health, Caucus on Homelessness
CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)
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