Today, we look at the impact of support: the value of family support for people with schizophrenia and the distressing impact of a lack of support in a growing number of white Americans. Plus opiates in teens, and how walking may correlate with cognition.
Pastors play the role of mental health professionals (and would like a little help). Plus psych beds needed in Michigan, peers working in Ohio.
Stressed-out college students in California get a change to go pass/no pass and remove some pressure. Stress-out women are facing a surge of "broken heart syndrome" that cardiologists are working to understand. And a ketamine trial in France found the drug eased suicidal thinking in patients with bipolar disease – at least for a few weeks.
Today we bring you a series of new Guest Essays as we build a platform for the sharing of ideas, perspectives, laments and solutions related to mental health and social justice.
In today's edition, we bring you research about marijuana, psychedelics and Amsterdam – and those are each different studies. Plus a study from the Netherlands explores what happens to teenagers getting mental health treatment when co-pays increase for their families.
A new course teaches med students how climate change affects the psyche. And Black students get L.A. school board to reduce school cops and fund mental health support.
A California courtroom took testimony from 39 inmates about jail mental health. A US Air Force general posts on Twitter about his need for mental health support. Listening sessions on reparations for African Americans harmed by past and continuing injustices will start in California.
Now on tap: reviews of The Distance Cure, Morningside Heights, Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness and an interview with the author of The Empire of Depression.
Elmo helps kids get ready to be vaccinated. New research finds links between chemo brain and COVID brain fog. California schools chief rolls out a film to shore up mental health for students and school staff.
Money beats psychotherapy. Prevention as intervention takes a setback. Pregnant women in jail aren't often getting treatment for their opioid disorders. And more.
A school district in Illinois has rolled out an array of support for “the big elephant in the room” – student mental health. San Jose passed the first ordinance in the nation requiring gun owners to buy insurance, which will help fund mental health services.
A new book explores how urban design can boost mental health. A guaranteed-income program helps families in Sacramento. Plus, how residents of a small town in Kentucky are weathering the traumatic scars of a tornado that leveled much of their town.
A giant Brazilian retailer is helping employees experiencing domestic violence escape from their abusers. A debate between two journalists over the role of a potent form of methamphetamine in fueling psychosis and homelessness.
Do stem cells offer a clue to development of schizophrenia? New research on gender-affirming hormone treatment has implications for policy. And why are most suicidal people not in treatment?
A new guaranteed-income program helps struggling families in New York City. Washington DC youth getting immediate emotional support through texting. And therapy chickens!
California's supportive housing efforts face headwinds. Fifteen states take aim at hormone therapy for transgender kids.
A MindSite News essayist speaks out for kids. Getting by in England with a little help from friends. And a former cheerleader tries to prevent suicides.
A new review of the effects of "nudging" has implications for behavior change and, perhaps, vaccination policy. A Canadian study examined a tough convergence: kids, screens and pandemic.
Skiing across miles of snowy Swedish terrain while your compatriots cheer you on helps prevent anxiety. A new mental health startup is virtually connecting Latinos in Iowa with therapists in Latin America. And a Denver-based supportive housing program is saving taxpayers money.
Grappling with eco-anxiety. This may be the existential issue for the world (and especially for members of Gen Z): Is the fate of our planet too grim and uncertain to bring children into it?
California's school chief wants to add 10,000 mental health counselors. And mental health clinicians may be poised to help address vaccine hesitancy.
