The Kennedy Forum and The Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation released a groundbreaking set of reports from all 50 states revealing striking new details about the implementation of the Mental Health Parity and...
Mental health care is at crossroads. Again. This time trauma-informed care challenges the biomedical model of mental illness. Some see this crossroad as potentially leading to a revolutionary shift in mental healthcare. Others look for ways to join...
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) believes his bipartisan mental health reform bill is picking up momentum and will get a hearing later this month in the Senate health committee. Murphy has introduced the bill with Republican Sen. Bill...
Senior managers need to speak up about mental health if they want their workers to thrive. When lawyer Daniela Fazio told her former boss that she was suffering from a mental health condition in 2011, it wasn’t planned. The words, and the...
To shackle, or not to shackle — that is the question seldom asked in many juvenile courts. The indiscriminate shackling of kids during courtroom proceedings begs the question: Why are we hostile toward our children? What does it...
Fusion will air its new investigative documentary“ Prison Kids: A Crime Against America’s Children .”The film is at Fusion.net. Narrated by Academy Award-nominated actress Gabourey Sidibe and featuring an introduction by...
These are dangerous and trying times for those who believe that the human rights of people involved with the mental health system must be promoted and protected. The Murphy Bill – “The Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis...
There's good news from the front lines in the fight against bullying: anti-bullying laws can help reduce aggression, both online and in real life. Bullying affects one out of every five U.S. high school students. But anti-bullying laws do make...
Twenty percent of Peoria School District 150 students were suspended from school at least once last year. The total number of out-of-school suspensions increased after steady declines since 2009. So far this year, suspensions are down about 20 percent...
Stigma against the mentally ill is so powerful that it's been codified for 50 years into federal law, and few outside the mental health system even realize it. This systemic discrimination, embedded in Medicaid and Medicare laws, has...
Sibling relationship quality during the teen years may affect later depressive symptoms and involvement in risky behaviors, according to a new University of Missouri (MU) study involving teens of Mexican origin. Latinos are the fastest-growing...
Demi Lovato is taking U.S. legislators to task on mental health reform as she heads to Washington, D.C. following Thursday's mass shooting in Oregon, the 142nd school shooting since Sandy Hook. The singer and actress,...
The mass murder and suicide in a college in Oregon last week brought out the following claim by a professional troll : So is there an epidemic of male suicides? I’ll assume we’re talking about the USA although what...
It is time to rebuild America's mental health care system, and to build it stronger than ever. As I have said before on this site, the current system is shattered, on its knees and a profound national embarrassment. The recent mass shooting in...