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After the British had re-established colonial rule in Singapore at the end of World War II, the first person appointed as a psychologist was V W Wilson. He was appointed to the colonial Medical Service on 11 September 1956 on contract from the United Kingdom to build up and incorporate a full psychological service within the mental health programme at Woodbridge. [3]
Singapore ranked 105th by age-standardised suicide rate according to the World Health Organization in 2016. [6] Generally, the rate of suicide is rising. In 2016, the rate of suicide was 8.54 per 100,000 individuals, up from 8.43 in 2015. [7] Like most issues of mental illness and death, suicide is generally viewed as a taboo subject in Singapore.
Daniel Fung Shuen Sheng (born 1966) is a Singaporean psychiatrist and researcher who is the current chief executive officer of the Institute of Mental Health (IMH). [1] [2] Fung was also the president of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions and of the College of Psychiatrists in Singapore. [3] [4]
Nat T. Winston Jr., M.D. was an American psychiatrist and healthcare pioneer, Tennessee's former commissioner of mental health, and a former candidate for Governor of Tennessee. Winston published Dear God: I Hope You Will Always Love Me and Forgive Me in 2009, a book that addresses and discusses topics in the sexual exploitation of American ...
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Deaths in Singapore offset the population increase from live births. In 2007, 17,140 people in Singapore died from various causes. The death rate was 4.5 deaths per 1,000 of the population. [ 1 ]
The Sycamore Institute’s 2023 report, Child and Adolescent Mental Health in Tennessee, found that in 2021 40% of Tennessee high school students had symptoms of depression in the previous year ...
The Mental Health (Care and Treatment) Act 2008 of Singapore [1] was passed in 2008 to regulate the involuntary detention of a person in a psychiatric institution for the treatment of a mental disorder, or in the interest of the health and safety of the person or the persons around him. [2]