A new report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) found that women on parole are nearly twice as likely to experience mental illness when compared with other women. The study revealed that 49.4 percent of women between the ages of 18 and 49 who had been on probation and 54.2
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The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the Department of Education have teamed up to help stop bullying in schools and communities, They unveiled today what they are calling a “revitalized” Stop Bullying website, stopbullying.gov, which will aim to encourage children, parents and educators in communities across America to take
New numbers from the Department of Veterans Affairs reveal a lack of mental health specialists in hospitals for veterans, with the data showing 20 percent vacancy rates in many of the VA hospitals across the country. As USA Today reports, the VA’s data shows that this shortfall of mental health
With Facebook making it easier for its roughly 845 million users to connect and share pictures and videos with each other, the Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt found that a lot of these behaviors are perpetuating the way our society feels about body image and potentially prompting a new
Researchers from the University of Bordeaux, France, found that American teens start experimenting with drugs and alcohol at a much younger and more vulnerable age than previously thought. The study examined the prevalence, age at onset and sociodemographic factors that relate to alcohol and illicit drug use and abuse by American
Experts hope that a new Medicare benefit covering depression screenings will help reduce depression in older Americans. As The Washington Post reports, in October, Medicare began covering annual depression screenings in primary-care settings with no cost sharing for beneficiaries. Experts believe that paying doctors to screen for depression could increase
The transition from a soldier in combat to a veteran at home is a difficult one, and the founders of VeteranCentral hope their website will not only connect veterans from across the country, but also help them find job opportunities and combat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Along with the mental
I hesitate as I begin to write this column because I am aware there are strong feelings and different opinions concerning an ongoing issue in our association. As the overarching professional organization with the responsibility to represent the counseling profession, we must begin to bring some resolution to this issue to prevent splintering
When I was younger, I often wondered how it was possible that elderly people weren’t consumed with fear of the inevitable. But Erik Erikson seemed to have a “good enough” theory to settle my inner turmoil. As an undergraduate back in the early 1970s, I surmised from Erikson’s theory that
Breaking recent precedent, the House of Representatives, the Senate and President Barack Obama agreed to a legislative package extending payroll tax relief, unemployment benefits and Medicare physician payment rates more than a week before each was set to expire at the end of February. The House approved the final package