mental health care
Psychological wellness services
Mental health care is treatment and support for psychological and emotional well-being—therapy, counseling, psychiatric services, and related interventions.
The term encompasses everything from talk therapy to medication management to inpatient treatment: She finally started getting mental health care after years of struggling alone.
Often discussed alongside physical health care, with advocates pushing for equal insurance coverage and reduced stigma.
- psychiatristMental disorder physician
- therapistMental health practitioner
- talk therapyPsychological treatment via conversation
- psychotherapyTreatment through guided conversation
- support groupsGatherings for shared struggles
safe space · crisis hotline · helplines · inpatient treatment · outpatient services · bipolar disorder · schizophrenia · counselor · intake assessment · psychoeducation · eating disorders · depression · group therapy · medication management · family therapy · social worker · psychiatric nurse · exposure therapy
- Prison Reformprison reform, penal reform, prisoner rights, inmate rights, overcrowding
- veteran rehabVA hospital, VA hospitals, veterans hospital, veterans affairs, veteran affairs
- healthcaredoctors, nurses, hospitals, hospital, clinic
- hospitalshospital, ER, emergency room, ICU, operating room
- caregivingcaregiver, nurture, look after, watch over, tend to
- outpatient carecheckup, check-up, checkups, physical exam, well visits
mental health caremental health stigma
Prejudice toward psychological conditions
mental health carepsychological abuse
Systematic emotional harm
gaslighting · brainwashing · coercive control · psychological manipulation · mind control