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Nov 6, 2024 · Gavin Newsom’s Mental Health Plan Could Strip More than $700 Million from Services, Report Says. A proposal from Gov. Gavin Newsom to overhaul the state’s behavioral and mental health system is likely to take nearly $720 million away from services provided by county governments annually, according to a new analysis.
Lifelike AI Chatbot Plays Role in Teen's Suicide, Lawsuit Charges ...
21 hours ago · Megan L. Garcia is an attorney who recently filed suit against Character.AI, a role-playing app that lets users create their own AI characters. Garcia told the New York Times that she believes the company’s generative AI companion platform is responsible for her teenage son’s suicide. Garcia’s son, Sewell Setzer III, died at age 14 after ...
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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 […]
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.
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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 ...
New Kaiser Report: The Pandemic Hammered our Mental Health
Sep 28, 2022 · During the 2010 to 2020 period, the suicide rate rose 43% among Blacks, 41% among American Indians and Alaska Natives, 27% among Hispanics, 12% among whites and 10% among Asians or Pacific Islanders.
Revisiting Mass Shootings and Mental Illness - MindSite News
Dec 11, 2023 · The vast majority of mass shooters in the United States who survived their rampage over the last four decades had undiagnosed or untreated mental illness – and not a single one was on medication for the disorder, according to a study that got little attention when it was published last year but was recently awarded a psychiatric research prize.
A Historic Week for Mental Health - MindSite News
Mar 4, 2022 · Tom Insel, MD, is a psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and former director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).He is a donor to MindSite News and chair of its Editorial Advisory Board. Dr. Insel’s financial conflict of interest statement, which includes equity and advisory roles in several early-stage mental health technology companies, can be found here.
New Findings on PTSD - MindSite News
Dec 13, 2023 · Historically, PTSD treatments have included helping treat the memory as something far away from the present. But the new study, Schiller says, shows that “the brain doesn’t look like it’s in a state of memory; it looks like it is a state of present experience.”. Scientists learned that traumatic memories move through an area of the ...