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ORANGE COUNTY, Calif., Jan. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Rebecca's House is proud to announce Founder, Rebecca Cooper will be attending the Treatment Modalities for Eating Disorders: Consensus and Controversy". The conference will take place in English and Hebrew on February 4-5, 2013 in the Ramada Hotel in Jerusalem, Israel. The conference will have a clinical focus, offering professionals from all disciplines that treat eating disorders an opportunity to broaden their knowledge...
National Council Introduces Youth Mental Health First Aid on Lady Gaga's Born Brave Bus Tour WASHINGTON, Jan. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Council for Behavioral Health is offering an evidence-based training program to help citizens identify mental health problems in young people, intervene in mental health crises, and connect youth with care. The program, Youth Mental Health First Aid, focused on youth 12 to 25 years, is being rolled out across the country after...
Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Despite previous mental health attention, a staggering number of teens will attempt to take their own lives. Adolescence is a vulnerable time in most everyone’s life. There is this odd confluence of mental and physical development whose ends seem in perpetual conflict during this strenuous time in our lives. Mentally, we are striving to fit in with the group, go with the flow and not make waves. Alternatively, our physical...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Michael J. Fitzpatrick, executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) met yesterday with Vice President Joseph Biden's task force on gun control, along with other leaders of the mental health community, urging action to strengthen and expand mental health care services. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100216/NAMILOGO) U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Katherine Sebelius and...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Office of Justice Programs' (OJP) Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) today announced the findings of a recent study which found that a national sample of women in jails showed high rates of mental health problems, with a majority of the participants meeting diagnostic criteria for serious mental illness (SMI), lifetime post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and/or substance use disorder (SUD). Titled Women's Pathways to Jail:...
Urges Leaders to Identify, Implement Solutions That Expand Capacity, Capabilities of Mental Health Programs and Services ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mental Health America today called on President Obama and Congress to take action in response to the Newtown tragedy by identifying and implementing solutions that expand the capacity and capabilities of the nation's mental health programs and services. In letters to the President and Members of Congress,...
Michigan mental health providers at the Birmingham Maple Clinic report that Hurricane Sandy continues to have devastating effects on New York's mental health care system. Troy, MI (PRWEB) January 05, 2013 Mental health care experts, in a new Birmingham Maple Clinic blog post published on January 3, discussed the affect that Hurricane Sandy continues to have on the precarious mental health care system in communities within New York City. Lori Edelson, Birmingham Maple Clinic therapist...
New York civil rights violation lawyer David Perecman of The Perecman Firm applauds the American Psychiatric Association for revising the classification of transgender individuals. In the newest version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, transgender will be considered a “normal human variant” and not a mental illness, a milestone victory for the transgender community. New York, NY (PRWEB) January 02, 2013 December saw a significant advancement in...
Concern for 'stigma' of psychiatric illness keeps information from primary care doctors Medical centers that elect to keep psychiatric files private and separate from the rest of a person's medical record may be doing their patients a disservice, a Johns Hopkins study concludes. In a survey of psychiatry departments at 18 of the top American hospitals as ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals in 2007, a Johns Hopkins team learned that fewer than half of the hospitals...
Bridges to Recovery (BTR) has reached the ten-year milestone as Southern California’s premier private residential behavioral health program for adults with psychiatric disorders, licensed by both the Department of Mental Health and Department of Social Services, announced Medical Director, Dr Michael Brodsky. Santa Monica, CA (PRWEB) December 31, 2012 Bridges to Recovery (BTR) has reached the ten-year milestone as Southern California’s premier private residential behavioral health...
