Solutions Lab
Young Advocates Take the Lead to Curb Campus Suicide
Suicide is now the second leading cause of death on college campuses. Peer support, trainings and suicide prevention programs aim to reverse this deadly trend.
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Arts & Culture
Turning Red: A Quirky Coming-of-Age Tale of Breaking Through Intergenerational Pain
A teenage girl learns to embrace her inner panda — the weird, emotional, creative, messy parts that lie within us all.
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Investigations
‘Corporal Punishment is Violence’: Black Communities Vow to Ban School Paddling
Corporal punishment is disproportionately inflicted on Black children and is higher in areas with histories of lynching
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News
New Ruling Undermines Battle to Require Parity in Insurance Coverage for Mental Health
The ruling is a major blow to efforts to require health insurers to cover care for mental health and substance use treatment in ways that are broadly equivalent to that for medical care.
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Policy Tracker
California to funnel billions into mental health overhaul aimed at youth
California Governor Gavin Newsom’s administration has allocated $4.4 billion in one-time funds to create a statewide Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative. The “unprecedented” funding aims to create a sweeping transformation of the children’s mental health system. The bulk of the money has yet to be distributed, but efforts to develop a vision and work with…
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Research Roundup
Diagnosis by TikTok?
A new paper investigates the accuracy and uptake of TikTok videos about ADHD. Spoiler alert: accuracy is low, uptake is, well, viral. We also look at AI-based linguistic tools to measure thought disorder and – who knew? – the relationship of birth spacing to oppositional defiant disorder (ODD).
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Essays & Interviews
Finally, an American President Gets Serious About Mental Health
In the face of pressing economic issues and foreign policy crises, President Biden delivered a State of the Union address this week that offered important recognition of another issue that is impacting all Americans – our mental health and addiction crisis. It comes on top of a robust set of proposals on mental health his administration…
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Youthful Advisers Help Shape a Mental Health Program for Their Peers
A new peer support program, designed by its participants, offers standalone health and wellness sites to those 12 to 25.
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The Confess Project: Barbers Help Black Men Talk About Mental Health
The barbershop is the cornerstone of the Black male community. What better place to offer mental health counseling?
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Schools Earn Poor Marks When It Comes to Kids’ Mental Health
A coalition of mental health advocacy organizations released a report card, rating each of the 50 states and Washington, D.C. on their school mental health policies. The group didn’t give out grades, but if they did, there wouldn’t be any As.
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More Latino Men Dying By Suicide Even as National Rate Declines
U.S. suicide rates fell slightly in 2019 and again in 2020, the CDC reported last month. But there were some stark outliers. Notably, suicides among Latino men increased by nearly 6 percent.
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What’s Behind the Protests Against Schools Trying to Boost Kids’ Mental Health?
A close look at protests over mental health programs at school suggest that the powerful forces driving them are anything but grassroots.
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Librarians’ Mental Health Threatened By Book Bans, Abuse And Harassment
Some librarians used to make jokes about Fahrenheit 451 as they pushed back on threats of censorship. But now it hits too close to home.
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TikTok’s Narcissism Obsession, and What It Says About Us
Narcissism as a topic is breaking out on TikTok with billions of page views. The NarcTok community is teeming with therapists and “healers” of all kinds, along with self-identified survivors.
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We Interrupt This Program to Bring You #BlackJoy
We Black people—Black Americans in this case—know hard times, but our lives also sparkle with joy. Black joy, and not just Black trauma, is our inheritance.
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When Positivity Becomes Toxic
We are in the #GoodVibesOnly age, and it’s kind of a bummer. The book Toxic Positivity points the way toward authenticity.
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What to Do When the World Is Ending
I am part of a generation that feels, constantly, and even in the most mundane moments, that the world is ending. Almost every article I read these days begins with the same preamble listing all of the overlapping crises, topped off by the…
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Solutions Lab
Revolution From the Inside Out
A new generation of activists from the Young Women’s Freedom Center is working to change the system while struggling to heal from their own traumas. In the process, they are…
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Investigations
Suicide by Gun Is Rising Among Youth, Especially Teens of Color
Firearm suicide rates rose steadily among young people in their teens and twenties over the last decade, with the sharpest increases among people of color.
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Peer Hub
A Short-Term Home Where People in Crisis Can Avoid the Hospital
Nothing about the brown clapboard house a few blocks off Main Street in Cartersville, Georgia, suggests it’s anything out of the ordinary. There’s no sign, or bustle of people – just an American flag hanging from a post and boxes of white petunias on the front porch. The unassuming house is actually the Bartow County…
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Arts & Culture
OCD: From Memoirs to Big Screen, Misunderstood Mental Illness Finally Gets Its Due
There’s a culture shift in media coverage of OCD. Once played for laughs, it’s now recognized as exhausting, debilitating and relentless.
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Policy Tracker
The 988 Crisis Hotline is Coming. Will States Answer the Call?
With the deadline for launching the 988 line just 7 months away, only a few states have enacted legislation to create and fund call centers and other services.
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A Historic Week for Mental Health
A new look at the extent of mental illness and use of mental health services in children. LGBTQ adults have high rates of adverse childhood experiences. News findings from studies of early psychosis are cautionary in some cases and encouraging in others.
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News
MindSite News Cofounder Tom Insel on PBS NewsHour
Our own Dr. Tom Insel, former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, author of the new book Healing, and a cofounder of MindSite News, was interviewed last night by Judy Woodruff on PBS New Hour.
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Essays & Interviews
The Mentor’s Mentor: A Life Tribute to Jeree Pawl
Some cases that you encounter as a psychotherapist you never forget. In 1986, as a trainee at the Infant-Parent Program, I worked with a family that almost broke my heart. Fortunately, I had an excellent teacher and mentor: Jeree Pawl.
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