<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2021/bartels-lecture-mental-health.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>01/29/2021</pubDate><title>Mental Health Experts: ‘Asking for Help is a Sign of Strength’</title><description>As part of the Bartels Lecture Series, the University’s most distinguished guest speaker series, Claude Ann Mellins, Ph.D., and Lourival Baptista, M.D., of Columbia University discussed the impact the coronavirus global pandemic has had on mental health and stressed the importance of self-care.</description><hide-description/><author>Renee Chmiel, Office of Marketing and Communications</author><author-details/><hide-author/><date>January 29, 2021</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/news/non-college-specific/blog/2021/welcome.jpg" alt="Image of Drs. Claude Ann Mellins and Lourival Baptista."/></image><image-caption>Drs. Claude Ann Mellins and Lourival Baptista spoke to the University community as part of the Bartels Lecture Series.</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>year-2021</tag></tags></item>