Mental Health

A collection of mental health news and resources.

How are Minnesota's Latino farmers dealing with stress?
With the drought and the COVID-19 pandemic, it's been a tough year for Minnesota farmers. Rodrigo Cala of the Latino Economic Development Center, a partner in a new Minnesota Department of Agriculture mental health initiative, spoke to Cathy Wurzer about stress among Latino farmers.
Why people with mental illness are at higher risk of COVID
Federal health officials have been urging adults with psychiatric conditions to get a booster shot to increase their COVID-19 protection. It turns out being mentally ill puts you at higher risk.
Navigating social anxiety during the pandemic holidays
As if the holidays aren’t stressful enough, many of us are still dealing with the mental health effects of the protracted pandemic. Host Angela Davis talks about navigating holiday stress during a pandemic and how to manage social anxiety when gathering in groups once again. 
Disrupting domestic violence
Violence in the home increased during the pandemic. Why? What can be done? MPR News host Angela Davis talks with violence prevention advocates who help survivors heal and abusers change. 
Raising a gender expansive child
Host Angela Davis talks about how to support gender expansive children with teacher Tom Rademacher, who wrote a new book about what he’s learned raising his nonbinary art-nerd kid, a pediatrician who leads a gender health program and a nonbinary young adult who works with nonbinary teens.
New U of M research center to focus on how the brain works
The Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain allows health care providers, neuroscientists and educators to try to answer enduring questions of how brains are shaped by their environments.