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Why I ended the horror of long-term solitary in Colorado’s prisons
Corrections, In the NewsWhy I Ended the Horror of Long-Term Solitary in Colorado’s Prisons By Rick Raemisch, Colorado Department of Corrections Director and Equitas National Advisor In Colorado, long-term solitary confinement used to be a tool that was regul...
Giving Patients a Voice in Their Mental Health Care Before They’re Too Ill to Have a Say
Health CareIncreasingly, patients, advocates and doctors believe psychiatric advance directives (called PADs), a legal document declaring what treatment a patient does and doesn’t want, could help transform the mental health system by allowing pa...
Giving Patients a Voice in Their Mental Health Care Before They’re Too Ill to Have a Say
Health Care, Public SafetyIncreasingly, patients, advocates and doctors believe psychiatric advance directives (called PADs), a legal document declaring what treatment a patient does and doesn’t want, could help transform the mental health system by allowing pa...
Severely unsettled one-year-olds risk poor mental health, experts caution
Childhood, Health CareSeverely unsettled babies with sleeping, crying and feeding problems at the age of one are ten times more likely to have mental health problems during childhood, a new Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) study has found. Present...
Mental health patients, with nowhere else to go, are overwhelming emergency departments
Health CareThousands of patients a year who are experiencing psychiatric emergencies are admitted to emergency departments. Many stay in the emergency department for hours; some even stay there for a few days. The practice, called psychiatric boa...
Dallas leverages data to address behavioral health needs of inmates
Corrections, Data, Health Care, In the News, Policy & Culture Change, Public SafetyIn Dallas, the technology and clinical services company HarrisLogic is attempting to solve this problem using data-driven tools to determine the appropriate behavioral health services for prisoners. By pooling information from jails, pol...
Teaching police to holster their emotions
Public SafetyWhen Washington trains police, it teaches them not to see their role only as “warriors,” but as “guardians.” That’s just one change, along with de-escalation training, to help police more safely interact with people exhibiting si...
Police encounter many people with mental-health crises. Could psychiatrists help?
Health Care, In the News, Public SafetyPolice departments have become a de facto arm of the American mental-health system. Research suggests that about 2 million people with serious mental illness are booked into jails in the United States each year. A 2016 review of studi...
Can Mental Health Parity Help Address the Mental/Behavioral Gap in Child Health?
Childhood, Health CareChildren and youth face major gaps in access to mental and behavioral health services. Rates of identification of mental health conditions in the pediatric population continue to lag well behind what we know about the prevalence of these...
When medication is essential to mental health
Health Care, In the News, Policy & Culture ChangeAccording to the National Institute of Mental Health, 44.7 million adults in the U.S. currently live with mental illness, 19.2 million of whom are receiving treatment in the form of counseling and prescription medication. Still, in casu...