Additional Resources
Understanding Mental Health
Deaf Individuals and Mental Health
- ADARA: A national organization that brings together professionals from vocational rehabilitation, mental health, chemical health, education, interpreting and related fields to share best practices and to address policy and program concerns.
- National Deaf Center: Mental Health Services Tip Sheet
- The National Child Traumatic Stress Network: Facts on Trauma and Deaf Children
Articles / Presentations
- Addressing Mental Health Crisis in the Deaf Community
- Bringing Mental Health Care for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Populations into the 21st Century
- Nurturing Resilience In the Face of Hearing Loss
- Mental Health of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Adolescents: What the Students Say
- Fellinger, J., Holzinger, D., & Pollard, R. (2012). Mental health of deaf people. Lancet, 379, 1037–1044. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61143-4. Retrieved from http://www.mhit.org/assets/Mental_health_of_deaf_people.pdf
- Kvam, M., Loeb, M. & Tambs, K. (2007). Mental health in deaf adults: Symptoms of anxiety and depression among hearing and deaf individuals. The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 12 (1), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1093/deafed/enl015
- Fall 2018 RID Literature Sneak Peek: Language Deprivation and Deaf Mental Health by Neil Glickman, Ph.D., and Wyatte Hall, Ph.D.; translated by Joshua Mora
- Glickman, N. (2007). Do You Hear Voices? Problems in Assessment of Mental Status in Deaf Persons With Severe Language Deprivation. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education Advance Access.
- Crump, C and Hamerdinger, S. (2017). Understanding Etiology of Hearing Loss as a Contributor to Language Dysfluency and its Impact on Assessment and Treatment of People who are Deaf in Mental Health Settings. Springer Science + Business Media.
- Pollard, R. Q. (1998). Psychopathy. In M. Marschark & D. Clark (Eds). Psychology perspective on deafness. Volume 2 (pp. 171-197). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, Inc.
- Lee, L. (2019). Social and Emotional Learning, Lacking Training, Teachers Developing their own SEL Solutions. Edutopia. Retrieved from https://www.edutopia.org/article/lacking-training-teachers-develop-their-own-sel-solutions?fbclid=iwar0bgdtt7jdgt1qzmajlyluzxmsrclzu6sgqj954ohvlb2vsk87mhv6ryu4
Interpreting in Mental Health
