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  STATISTA: U.S. Depression Rate Reaches New High In 2023 by Anna Fleck,  Sep 9, 2024 According to survey data, three in ten people in the United States had been clinically diagnosed with depression at a point in their lives in 2023. This is the highest rate since the question started being asked, up 10.6 percentage points from 2015. The rate of increase was particularly steep in the first year of the pandemic, jumping up from 22.9 percent in 2020 to 28.6 percent in 2021. Meanwhile, 17.8 percent of respondents said that they currently had depression in 2023. These averages hide figures even more extreme, as Gallup data reveals how rates among women, young adults, as well as Black and Hispanic respondents have risen particularly fast. According to the survey, 36.7 percent of women report having been diagnosed with depression in their lifetimes versus 20.4 percent of men. For young people aged 18-29, 34.3 percent had been diagnosed with depression, while for 30-44 year olds it...

  STATISTA: Mental Health and Social Media: What Message Prevails? by  Anna Fleck,   Aug 11, 2023 Mental health is a topic never far from the minds of girls as young as 11-15 years old in the United States, according to a recent study by Common Sense Media, an online parental guidance platform. In real life, nearly seven in ten girls reported having had exposure to helpful mental health content and information in real life each month. But on the flip side, just under half (45 percent) said they heard or saw harmful content about suicide or self harm while just under four in ten (38 percent) said the same of harmful content on eating disorders. Social media, in many ways an extension of daily life, appears to have the same contradiction. As the following chart shows, girls aged 11-15 years old face a high risk of exposure to harmful content on social media in the United States, including on the topics of suicide, self-harm and eating disorders. The report found that girls ...

  STATISTA: Mental Illness: Cost is a Major Barrier to Treatment by Martin Armstrong, Oct 10, 2023 October 10 marks World Mental Health Day, with the theme in 2023 being 'mental health is a universal human right'. As described by the WHO, this means: "Everyone, whoever and wherever they are, has a right to the highest attainable standard of mental health. This includes the right to be protected from mental health risks, the right to available, accessible, acceptable, and good quality care, and the right to liberty, independence and inclusion in the community. In the United States though, for example, a Mental Health America study indicates that this is still far from the case. There, 42% of adults with a mental illness whose treatment needs went unmet in 2022 said that this occurred because they simply couldn't afford it. Also of concern, 27% said they didn't know where to go to get the support services they needed and 17 percent said that, despite having health in...

  STATISTA; Mental Health Issues in the United States b y Felix Richter,  Apr 30, 2024 Having long been stigmatized as a sign of weakness, mental health problems have become much less of a taboo in recent years.  The pandemic, with its unique set of challenges, accelerated that trend, as it not only caused a spike in symptoms of anxiety or depression, but also led to more people opening up about their problems.  In a recent Statista survey, 3 in 4 American adults reported that they have struggled with mental health in some form or other in the 12 months preceding the survey, making an open discourse about mental health issues all the more important. According to the findings from Statista Consumer Insights, 52 and 49 percent of U.S. adults have experienced stress or anxiety in the past year, respectively, up from 46 and 38 percent in 2019. 29 percent of respondents reported having felt loneliness or social isolation in the past year, while 34 percent stated that the...

  STATISTA: America's Homeless Population on the Rise by  Katharina Buchholz,   Oct 7, 2024 According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's latest report on homelessness in the United States, 653,104 Americans were homeless in 2023. Last year, levels of homelessness climbed for the sixth year. While in 2017 and 2018, growth was slow, homelessness increased more in 2019 and 2020 and finally skyrocketed in 2023 by growing 12 percent compared to the year prior and even climbing 10 percent above the 2007-2022 average.  As Covid-era protection programs expired and the cost-of-living crisis hit the country, homelessness numbers rose. At the same time, Covid restrictions on shelter capacity ended, leading to more homeless individuals living in shelters once again. During Covid-19, most of the increase in homeless populations had come from unhoused individuals. In 2023, sheltered populations rose by almost 14 percent, while unhoused populations rose by l...

  DECREE ON THE APOSTOLATE OF THE LAITY Promulgated on November 18, 1965, this Vatican II document has not received the attention that it deserves.  Discussion of the role of the laity has focused upon  Lumen Gentium,  the Constitution on the Church with its emphasis upon the People of God and the universal call to holiness.  Constitutions are more theoretical documents and therefore get the long    term attention of theologians; decrees are more practical pastoral documents adapted to the differing needs of times and cultures Language has been a big barrier to the use of this document; very long Latin sentences; a very bureaucratic style, and words that are not attractive in English. The document needs to be condensed and address the contemporary situation in America. The present document is a step in that direction The word “laity” has been translated as “the baptized ” because the apostolate is the common shared activity of priests, religious and la...

 2009 DIVISION36 CONVENTION PROGRAM  FOR THE 116TH ANNUALCONVENTION OF THE  AMERICANPSYCHOLOGICALASSOCIATION  AUGUST 6–9, 2009, TORONTO Psychology of Religion Division 36 of the American Psychological Association   Jack Rakosky 6737 Stratford Road , Concord Township , Ohio 44077 ______________________________________________________________________________ Religious capital is conceptualized in this paper as consisting of human capital, social capital, cultural capital and spiritual capital used by entities from single persons, through small groups, congregations to global denominations. This particular conceptual scheme is illustrated with the exemplar of bible study as a particularly promising locale for studying all these four forms of religious capital (i.e. human, social, cultural and spiritual) at both the personal and institutional levels. Wuthnow (1994) has estimated that there are more than 900,000 bible study groups enrolling 15-20 million per...