ADAA Mental Health Blogs for the Public

As part of Women's Health Month, ADAA's Women Mental Health SIG presents a series of blogs and videos showcasing women trailblazers in the mental health sector. In this blog, learn about Paula Clayton, MD, an internationally recognized researcher, dedicated to destigmatizing mental health and advocating suicide prevention.

As part of Women's Health Month, ADAA's Women Mental Health SIG presents a series of blogs and videos showcasing women trailblazers in the mental health sector. In this blog, learn about Margaret Floy Washburn, PhD, the first woman in the United States to earn a PhD in psychology in 1894.

As part of Women's Health Month, ADAA's Women Mental Health SIG presents a series of blogs and videos showcasing women trailblazers in the mental health sector. In this blog, learn about Mamie Phipps Clark, PhD, a pioneering psychologist whose work fundamentally shaped our understanding of racial identity, child development, and the psychological impacts of systemic racism.

One of the most worrisome situations that anyone with a job can face is the awareness that your employment might end through no fault of your own. What can you do when your employer announces cutbacks, layoffs, profit loss or restructuring that eliminates your department? How do you cope when you realize your history of good performance reviews no longer protects you from job loss?

As part of Women's Health Month, ADAA's Women Mental Health SIG presents a series of blogs and videos showcasing women trailblazers in the mental health sector. In this blog, learn about Hedda Bolgar, PhD, who received her doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1934, published anti-Nazi material and was forced to flee to the USA, where she worked as a psychologist until weeks before her death at the age of 103.

As part of Women's Health Month, ADAA's Women Mental Health SIG presents a series of blogs and videos showcasing women trailblazers in the mental health sector. In this blog, learn about Claire Weekes, MD, DSc, who originally studied zoology but made a career change in her 30's to research anxiety and fear in humans.