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Bill To Study Texas Psychiatric Bed Capacity Falls Short

Legislation that would have prompted a widespread study of Texas' current and future psychiatric facility capacity fell short of passage this year. State Sen. Sarah Eckhardt, D-Austin, filed the bill for the second time. The state needs to invest in the study to give decision-makers "the ability to look at all of our options out into the future for meeting this demand," she told the Senate Health and Human Services Committee in early April.

Denver Mental Health Program Contributes To Significant Decrease in Overdoses, Jail Bookings

A Denver mental health program for the community's most vulnerable members is sharing its success. That program is called Transforming Health by Reducing Inequities for the Vulnerable (THRIVE).

Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice Aiming To Build Mental Health Facility For Kids in Custody

The Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice is seeking to build a 24-bed mental health facility for children in their custody. Specifically for justice-involved youth, 16 of the beds in the facility would be for clinical use, while the remaining eight would be reserved for assessment and stabilization.

RFK Jr. Is Shrinking the Agency That Works On Mental Illness And Addiction

The country's main mental health agency, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, commonly known as SAMHSA, is in the process of being dissolved. It has lost more than a third of its staff of about 900 this year as part of recent reductions in the federal workforce.

The Two Very Different Types of Mental Health Stigma

Paul Bolton writes: Years ago, I was the only physician serving a small country town and its surroundings. While the local people were kind, I was new to the area and felt very much alone. I also had depression, so life was difficult.

The World Isn't Ready for the Mental Health Toll of Extreme Heat

The coming summer is forecast to be a scorcher across the U.S. And climate scientists predict that at least one of the next five years will beat 2024 as the hottest year ever recorded globally. As heat waves are getting more intense and prolonged, their effect on the mind and body are also becoming more dire.

Can AI Be Your Therapist? New Research Reveals Major Risks

As a psychiatrist and therapist, I often hear the question: "Can AI replace a therapist?" A recent research study delivers a compelling answer: Not yet. Perhaps never entirely.

Mental Health Diagnoses Among Publicly Insured Children

In a recent issue of JAMA, a paper by Cummings and colleagues reported that the rates of mental health conditions among publicly insured children are increasing, aligned with other evidence that also demonstrates increased rates of depression, suicide and emergency mental health visits between 2010 and 2019. While there is evidence for increasing rates of child mental health conditions, the underlying reason for the trend is complex and unclear.

Greenspace Exposure Supports Brain Development And Mental Health in Adolescents

Researchers have found that greenspace exposure is associated with widespread patterns of structural brain development during early adolescence, which in turn are associated with better academic and mental outcomes. The findings of the study in Biological Psychiatry, published by Elsevier, emphasize the need to integrate natural environments into urban and educational settings and provide key insights for policymakers, parents and educators to support adolescent well-being.

Study Links Preteen Physical Activity With Better Mental Health Later

At age 11, daily physical activity was associated with a 12% lower risk of a psychiatric diagnosis at age 18 for every hour of activity recorded, according to research published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. The study examined data from over 16,000 children born between 1997 and 1999 in Sweden whose families recorded their daily physical activity information at ages 5, 8 and 11.

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