With New Report, Biden Administration Takes on Insurers Over Mental Health Failings
The Biden administration unleashed an aggressive opening salvo Tuesday in what it pledges will be a sustained effort to compel U.S. health insurers to pay for mental health services on par with the way they cover physical health care.
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Black-Owned Hospice Seeks to Bring Greater Ease in Dying to Black Families
Hospice care, which helps control pain in the dying while providing compassionate care, also offers much-needed mental health support to patients and their families. According to the American Psychological Association, 15% to 20% of terminally ill patients are diagnosed with major depression, and family caregivers also suffer high rates of depression and anxiety. Not only does hospice help the dying with their fears, relieve intolerable pain and support their emotional and spiritual needs, it supports their family members as well. Major depression…
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Eco-Anxiety: The Real Tsunami of Climate Change
Kiersten Little, 31, is among the 40% percent of young people around the globe who are so distressed and anxious about climate change that they are hesitant to have children. This kind of climate-related despair isn’t a diagnosable condition but it does have a name: eco-anxiety.
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If the Build Back Better Plan Dies, the Biggest Losers Will be Children
Senate Democrats’ inability to pass the Build Back Better plan is a catastrophe for poor families and their children.
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Research Roundup – Do Stem Cells Hold Clues to Schizophrenia?
The big breakthrough in the world of brain disorders was a report in the journal Science about multiple sclerosis.
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Why School Paddling Is Legal Child Abuse: First Person
I first became acquainted with school corporal punishment my first week at Fitzhugh Lee Elementary in Smyrna, Georgia. Out of nowhere, the principal charged into our…
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Controversial Anthony Bourdain Film Named a Top 5 Documentary for 2021
The film shows how Bourdain’s public image contrasted with his private, shy, introverted self.
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Batsh*t Crazy: The Creator of Wakefield Draws On Her Own Experience For Psych Ward Drama
Wakefield was never going to be an easy sell. An intense drama unfolding in a mental institution would be tough for anyone to market, but…
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Solutions Lab
Remembering Aaron Beck, Who Led a Revolution and Developed a New Form of Therapy
Looking back on the heroic work, and the very human qualities, of the father of cognitive behavioral therapy who died at 100.
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Essays & Interviews
One Vet’s View of the Staggering Toll of Military Suicides – and the VA’s Failings
An author and veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq fears the legacy of the VA’s harm to vets.
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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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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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Cavetown Song “Boys Will Be Bugs”: Rx for Teen Boys’ Mental Health
The 2018 sleeper hit is the most important song about teen boys that most adults have never heard of.
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Investigations
An Interrogation of Grief
On a one-year search for answers to two inexplicable deaths, I stumbled on solace by talking through private pain.
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