Common Humanity as an Under-acknowledged Mechanism for Mental Health Peer Support

Peer support in mental health services.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Considering international diversity in the implementation of mental health peer support and an increasing research interest in peer support work (PSW), this review focuses on priorities in current research and practice. With grassroots in informal services for people with mental health problems, peer support has been strengthened by the recovery paradigm in mental health polic...

Global mental health: a failure of humanity.

Online Peer-to-Peer Support for Young People With Mental Health Problems: A Systematic Review

BACKGROUND Adolescence and early adulthood are critical periods for the development of mental disorders. Online peer-to-peer communication is popular among young people and may improve mental health by providing social support. Previous systematic reviews have targeted Internet support groups for adults with mental health problems, including depression. However, there have been no systematic re...

Peer-to-Peer Support for Distributed Mail Transfer Mechanism

In current Internet mail transfer mechanism, mail servers usually do a lot of extra mail processing like mail filtering. The workload of mail servers is heavy in terms of storage and processing time. Junk mails as well as important messages are all stored on mail server, retrieved and then deleted by end users. It’s a waste of processing time, storage space, and precious network resources. In t...

Gastrointestinal polyposis and PTEN mutations: an under-acknowledged diagnostic criterion

Methods Blood was collected for PTEN mutation analysis and medical records were requested to document diagnoses. Patients who are PTEN+ with ≥5 GI polyps, ≥1 of which is hyperplastic (hyp) or hamartomatous (ham, n=4) or who met relaxed ICC criteria (n=118) were analyzed. Upper and lower GI endoscopy and pathology reports were reviewed and findings are reported descriptively. Fisher’s 2-tailed e...