The Mental Health and Environment Working Group was established in March, 2009 and is a subcommittee of LDDI.
If you are interested in joining the working group and are already a CHE Partner, please contact info@healthandenvironment.org. If you are not currently a CHE Partner, please first complete a Partner application, indicating which of CHE's working groups you would like to participate in, including the Mental Health and Environment Working Group.
Past Calls
Resources
5/8/13: Practical Guidelines for Evaluating Lead Exposure in Children with Mental Health Conditions: Molecular Effects and Clinical Implications
Download the paper
2/2/10: Mental Health Effects Arising from Pesticide Exposure: A Guide for Healthcare Providers and Mental Health Practitioners
Prepared by the Mental Health and Environment Working Group of the Collaborative on Health and the Environment
Download the brochure
1/19/10: Health Care Resource: Links between Pesticide Exposures and Mental Health
Prepared by the Mental Health and Environment Working Group of the Collaborative on Health and the Environment
This document examines the link between exposures to pesticides and behavioral and psychiatric consequences.
Read the document
Pesticide Exposure and Mental Illness
NADD has posted a bibliography of several articles concerning pesticide exposure and psychiatric symptoms/mental illness on their website.
View the bibliography
Mental Health Fact Sheet
In November 2008, LDDI updated and expanded its fact sheet on environmental exposures and mental health. With an emphasis on prevention, this fact sheet provides information on psychiatric symptoms and diagnoses related to each of the environmental agents discussed, as well as sources of exposure and actions that can be taken to reduce exposures.
Download the Mental Health Fact Sheet
Download the Mental Health Fact Sheet Summary Page