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Text messaging often gets a bad rap for contributing to illiteracy and high-risk behavior such as reckless driving. But a Berkeley social-welfare professor has found an upside to texting, especially for people who feel stressed out, isolated and alone.
Tag: depression
This Thursday: Depression-awareness webinars, Q&As
October 8, 2012:
Depression affects 9.1 percent of Americans, according to the CDC. On Depression Awareness Day, Oct. 11, UC will offer a one-hour webinar, throughout the day, on signs, symptoms and treatment of depression, and University Health Services will supplement the webinar with in-person discussions with campus psychologists.
April 4-8 is Suicide Awareness Week
April 1, 2011:
Suicide is the second highest cause of death for college students. For Suicide Awareness Week, April 4-8, the campus’s Student-to-Student Peer Counseling group will sponsor a documentary screening on depression Monday night, and a Wednesday evening talk by Berkeley psychologist Stephen Hinshaw and Tang Center staff.
IRLE’s conference on ‘New Deal/No Deal?’
November 15, 2010:
In the midst of forecasts of continuing economic woes and congressional gridlock, experts gathered recently at UC Berkeley to assess what worked and what didn’t during the Great Depression-inspired New Deal, the Obama administration’s still emerging efforts to ease the Great Recession, and prospects for relief, reform and recovery
