For most psychologists, the working week is varied, but mostly predictable, with patient appointments, letters and clinical sessions. But for Stephen Weatherhead, a 37-year-old clinical psychologist working in Lancaster, and for a lot of other...
Researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston found that people with a psychological condition such as depression, anxiety, psychosis, or alcohol/drug abuse are more likely to be readmitted early into a hospital for...
The National Center for Juvenile Justice , the NCJFCJ's research division, has released the first in a new series of case-study publications supporting themes explored in the Juvenile Justice Geography, Policy, Practice, and Statistics...
Juvenile justice probation and detention workers play an important role in helping system-involved youth and families navigate justice and social service systems; achieving goals of accountability, competency, and community safety; and promoting...
Over the past 40 years, most poor neighborhoods in the U.S. have only gotten poorer. Now, a series of new maps by Justin Palmer , a designer at Github, details exactly where these neighborhoods are—and just how much worse off...
I will never forget a particularly unsettling incident in the operating room while I was a young and impressionable medical student on my first surgery rotation: Attending Surgeon: "Intern, what’s the story on this patient?”...
Mental illness is nothing new. Even thousands of years ago, Hippocrates recognized the difference between momentary sadness and illness, writing that if "a fright or despondency lasts for a long time, it is a melancholic affection."...
Even in an increasingly secular society, faith leaders play a large role in the lives of millions of people. In African American communities in particular, there are many who will discuss their problems with their pastors before ever stepping foot in...
A man in his early 40s with a kind, weathered face is talking to a room full of children. "In some ways, all of us are basically abandoned or not really a wanted person," he says. "Everybody kind of give up the hope on us. But in this place,...
One of the things I have learned from working at a children's therapeutic group home, and through having a son with sensory processing issues, is how numb adults have become to sensory issues. I contend that most of what the adults in charge of...
The recent 7th International Attachment Conference attracted 450 of the field's luminaries from around the globe to New York City on August 6 for three days of presentations, symposia, poster sessions and, of course, receptions,...
The latest numbers show that deaths from heroin-related overdose more than tripled nationally between 2002 and 2013. Opiate addiction touches every demographic: white, black, Hispanic, rural, suburban and urban. Proposed solutions...
Many illnesses are contagious. You'd do well to avoid your neighbor's sneeze, for example, and to wash your hands after tending to your sick child. But what about mental illness? The idea that anxiety, autism or major depression could be...
Hurricane Katrina caused widespread devastation and loss of life, and many of those whose homes were destroyed or severely damaged fled New Orleans. In the months that followed, many of the city's poorest families got even more bad news: The...
The prisoner spent a fitful August night trying to tune out the howls and moans of inmates in adjoining cells. He did not stir from his thin sleep mat until well after 1 p.m. A breakfast of cold grits waited in a slot in the reinforced steel...