This is good: The survey, of more than 3,000 U.S. adults, found that 70 percent said they feel people are more open to discussing mental health compared with a decade ago. Most respondents also said they’d want to help a family member or friend struggling with depression or other mental health conditions. Awesome news! They…
This seems like an interesting thing that Australian courts are doing: “The program involves pre-recording children’s evidence and appointing trained “witness intermediaries” who help children to understand questions and get their answers across effectively. Since March last year more than 700 children have been through the NSW pilot program, which has 44 trained witness intermediaries….
Even if you’re not interested in the podcast about mental health and religion, keep this page handy. It is chock full of resources of all types for suicide prevention. We need to make sure these resources are handy, and get them to people who need them! https://cxmhpodcast.com/show-notes/2017/9/28/bonus-suicide-prevention-resources
Sadly, this did not surprise me. “Around one in five adults aged 16 to 59 (an estimated 6.2 million people) had experienced some form of abuse as a child, according to the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) for the year ending March 2016. But the impact of what is often a hidden crime…
There are no easy answers, but hopefully, this guide can help you spot child abuse, such as the shaken baby syndrome, or spot children that have been neglected, provide information about prevention programs, and learn the steps to report the abuse to child welfare services. They are right, there are no easy answers, and I suspect there will…
Jail is a terrible place for someone having a mental health crisis: “Across the country, and especially in rural areas, people in the middle of a mental health crisis are locked in a cell when a hospital bed or transportation to a hospital isn’t immediately available. The patients are transported from the ER like inmates,…
