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4 days ago · ‘Bereavement Deserts’: Amid a Rise in Parental Deaths, Grief in Children Is Often Overlooked ‘My son needed something I couldn’t give.’ Surviving parents seek grief support for kids Amanda Joyce Jensen will always remember the night she told her 4-year-old son, Kezman, that his father, Marshall, had died of cancer – and how Kezman said he already knew because “Daddy came to me ...
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Sep 27, 2021 · A new, editorially independent, digital publication focused on mental health, resilience and recovery The U.S. and much of the world is in the midst of a deepening and poorly understood mental health crisis – a crisis that was festering long before the COVID-19 pandemic. The enormous increase in mental and psychological suffering during the pandemic […]
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The Top Mental Health Stories of 2022 - MindSite News
Jan 4, 2023 · Solutions: Telehealth helps.More funding does too, although it takes time to train new clinicians. Building a cadre of peer support workers can have more rapid impacts. The National Governors Association recommended building a pipeline to address the children’s mental health workforce shortage through incentives to offset the cost of training programs, apprenticeship models and aligning two ...
The Return of Trump: What Does it Mean for Mental Health Policy …
Dec 2, 2024 · Rob Waters, founding editor of MindSite News, is an award-winning journalist whose reporting has focused on mental health, public health and science.He has worked as a staff reporter or editor at Bloomberg News, Time Inc. Health and the Psychotherapy Networker. He was a contributing writer to Health Affairs and his articles have appeared in the Washington Post, Kaiser Health News, STAT ...
Treatment not Trauma: Transforming Mental Health in Chicago
Sep 27, 2024 · Arturo Carrillo, deputy director of health and violence prevention with the Brighton Park Neighborhood Council, speaks during the 2024 Treatment Not Trauma summit.
Mental health giving rises a bit but still too low - MindSite News
Sep 25, 2024 · An Interview with Kristen Ward. Ever since some preliminary research in 2018 from the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy found that only 1.3% of all dollars donated by foundations and philanthropists went to mental health, the sector has been called out for giving too little attention – and too few dollars – to address a critical need.
School Shooting: Beyond Thoughts & Prayers Is Mental Health
Sep 17, 2024 · While it’s common for children and teens who experience a school shooting to have immediate reactions to trauma, such as trouble sleeping or concentrating, only a small portion will go on to develop post-traumatic stress disorder, said David Schonfeld, a developmental-behavioral pediatrician who directs the National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
New Findings on PTSD - MindSite News
Dec 13, 2023 · Good morning, MindSiters! A new study may help get to the bottom of why post traumatic stress syndrome is so hard to treat: It suggests episodes of post traumatic stress are processed as happening in real life rather than in the past.
The Case for Hope - MindSite News
May 20, 2024 · “Mukhtar taught me that we humans are endowed with strength – and hope – that, if we recognize it and flex it, can achieve the impossible,” Kristof writes in an essay for the New York Times titled “The Case for Hope.”Some of the words that appear most often in this newsletter, like “mental health” and “depression,” never come up.