Recovery Update

Participate in the 15th World Congress on psychiatric rehabilitation to be held in Vancouver British Columbia, Canada on Sept. 27-30 2025. The theme of the Conference is "Embracing Hope: A Global Perspective on Recovery and Rehabilitation." Give yourself an opportunity to get away from the daily barrage of news or distressing events and meet with others from around the world, dedicated to our common mission. Submit an abstract! Your global colleagues are interested in what you are doing, discovering and how psychiatric/psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery is progressing, regardless of whatever else is going on! The deadline has been lifted to give you more time to submit an in person or a recorded session. Participate whether or not you submit an abstract. Come alone. Bring your colleagues! Join us!

Lawmakers are taking aim at a common problem for Illinois residents who seek mental health care — many therapists don't take private insurance. In Illinois and across the country, a number of therapists have stopped accepting private insurance, saying health insurers don't reimburse them enough money for their services and force them to jump through too many hoops to give patients the care they need.

More Californians are talking to their therapists through a video screen or by phone than in person, marking a profound shift in how mental health care is delivered as record-setting numbers seek help. While patients and providers say teletherapy is effective and easier to get than in-person services, experts in the field noted that teletherapy often requires a skilled mental health practitioner trained to pick up subtle communication cues.

Governor Gavin Newsom announced $3.3 billion in grant funding today to create over 5,000 residential treatment beds and more than 21,800 outpatient treatment slots for behavioral health care services and will build upon other major behavioral health initiatives in California.

Many children and adolescents who struggle with their feelings aren't getting the mental health care they need. That's partly due to the fact that there aren't enough therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists. The Access Psychology Foundation is working to change that with evidence-based treatments to reach kids in crisis.

In a comprehensive Genomic Psychiatry review article published recently, researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center have synthesized decades of research on stress hormone systems in primate brains, potentially unlocking new paths toward treating stress-related psychiatric disorders.

More than half of Americans say their mental health became important to them in the last five years, a new survey found. Conducted in April by Rula Health, a virtual behavioral health company, the survey reached more than 2,000 U.S. adults and aimed to understand the current state of mental health.