The Supreme Court’s landmark juvenile sentencing rulings establishing that youth should be treated differently than adults have had effects beyond the death penalty and juvenile life without parole (JLWOP) sentences, says a recent ...
Troubled people who have weight-loss surgery are more likely to attempt suicide following the procedure, a new study suggests. These patients were about 50 percent more likely to try to take their own lives after they lost a lot of weight,...
For decades, black parents have told their children that in order to succeed despite racial discrimination, they need to be “twice as good”: twice as smart, twice as dependable, twice as talented. This advice can be found in...
Angry men are strong and forceful, while angry women are often dismissed as overly emotional. That double standard has been alleged for years now, with plenty of anecdotal evidence to back it up. A newly published study...
Women make up two-thirds of the 5.1 million people currently suffering from Alzheimer’s disease in the United States. But that figure doesn’t fully capture the disease’s disproportionate impact on women, according a new...
I 'm a sexual assault survivor, and I was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder earlier this year. Because I'm open about my experience and have written about it for various websites, most of my partners date me...
The Kennedy Forum and The Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation released a groundbreaking set of reports from all 50 states revealing striking new details about the implementation of the Mental Health Parity and...
Mental health care is at crossroads. Again. This time trauma-informed care challenges the biomedical model of mental illness. Some see this crossroad as potentially leading to a revolutionary shift in mental healthcare. Others look for ways to join...
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) believes his bipartisan mental health reform bill is picking up momentum and will get a hearing later this month in the Senate health committee. Murphy has introduced the bill with Republican Sen. Bill...
Senior managers need to speak up about mental health if they want their workers to thrive. When lawyer Daniela Fazio told her former boss that she was suffering from a mental health condition in 2011, it wasn’t planned. The words, and the...
To shackle, or not to shackle — that is the question seldom asked in many juvenile courts. The indiscriminate shackling of kids during courtroom proceedings begs the question: Why are we hostile toward our children? What does it...
Fusion will air its new investigative documentary“ Prison Kids: A Crime Against America’s Children .”The film is at Fusion.net. Narrated by Academy Award-nominated actress Gabourey Sidibe and featuring an introduction by...
These are dangerous and trying times for those who believe that the human rights of people involved with the mental health system must be promoted and protected. The Murphy Bill – “The Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis...
There's good news from the front lines in the fight against bullying: anti-bullying laws can help reduce aggression, both online and in real life. Bullying affects one out of every five U.S. high school students. But anti-bullying laws do make...
Twenty percent of Peoria School District 150 students were suspended from school at least once last year. The total number of out-of-school suspensions increased after steady declines since 2009. So far this year, suspensions are down about 20 percent...