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Mental Health Experience

Since 1972 Birmingham Maple Clinic's therapists have been providing mental health services designed to meet the needs of individuals, couples, families, groups and the community.

Birmingham Maple Clinic comprises the most highly experienced and qualified professionals in the fields of Psychiatry, Psychology and Social Work. After many years of experience in other agencies, hospitals and private practice, clinicians have chosen to join Birmingham Maple Clinic to continue their advanced professional practices.

The clinic has national accreditation by the Council On Accreditation.
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Mental Health Update

For informational purposes only, this site provides new information about the many facets of mental health that is continually emerging from around the world. This site will present some of that information, where it comes from, and what its relevance is to therapy for today's world.

September 7, 2008

DEPRESSION AFFECTS MORE THAN 1 IN 20 AMERICANS: CDC

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) National Center for Health Statistics shows that in any 2-week period, 5.4% of Americans aged 12 years or older, or more than 1 in 20, are depressed.

Hardest hit are women, non-Hispanic Blacks, and those in middle age, between 40 and 59 years of age, where rates were higher than among other demographic groups. Americans living below the poverty level were more likely to be depressed than those with higher incomes; rates in this population were 1 in 7.

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