Since 2012, the Steve Hicks School’s Texas Institute for Excellence in Mental Health has helped sponsor the Mental Health Awareness Creative Arts Contest to fight mental health stigma. Each year, children and adults of all ages can submit original artwork, writing, or photography for the opportunity to win prizes and… read more
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Health Social Work Department
https://vimeo.com/322890000 The Steve Hicks School and the Dell Medical School are advancing the role of social work as an agent of health care transformation through the creation of the Department of Health Social Work, the first of its kind in the nation to be embedded in a medical school. The… read more
Depression and the heart
One third of individuals suffering from depression do not achieve remission after multiple treatment attempts. Professor Fiona Conway and colleagues are exploring whether paying attention to certain biological processes can help make depression treatments more effective. Their study, published in the International Journal of Psychophysiology, examines how individual variations in… read more