While youth and teens struggling with psychosis benefit the most with early intervention care, 20 to 40 percent of them drop out of care programs, if they begin them at all. But a recent study shows that ethnoracially minoritized ...
Apr 5, 2023
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Experts from UPMC Health Plan and Community Care Behavioral Health Organization recently published a state mental health policy description that shows how Pennsylvania's county-based model of Medicaid behavioral health managed ...
Mar 22, 2023
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Recently incarcerated people with opioid use disorder have trust in working with peer support specialists who recovered from addiction and faced similar life experiences, according to a Rutgers study.
Mar 18, 2023
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Anxiety disorders are among the most common and pervasive mental illnesses in the United States. Antidepressants and psychotherapy typically are the preferred treatment options, although benzodiazepines can be helpful in ...
Jan 12, 2023
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Few studies evaluate the impact of mental health hotlines on caller outcomes, according to a review published online Oct. 18 in Psychiatric Services.
Oct 31, 2022
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In a study of more than 100,000 emergency room visits and 95,000 mental health hospitalizations of youth and young adults with private insurance, less than half who visited the emergency room had follow-up care within 30 ...
Oct 12, 2022
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UW Medicine researchers have found that algorithms are as good as trained human evaluators at identifying red-flag language in text messages from people with serious mental illness. This opens a promising area of study that ...
Oct 11, 2022
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Most people who die by suicide had contact with the health care system in the year before their deaths—but only about one-third have received mental health services. This means that primary care and emergency room doctors, ...
Jul 19, 2022
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People with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) struggled with their mental health during the COVID-19-induced lockdowns and subsequent restraints on community services, according to a new study published today ...
Jun 23, 2022
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Data from 44 hospitals in 26 states show that suicide or self-injury and depressive disorders were the primary mental health reasons children received emergency department (ED) or hospital inpatient care after statewide school ...
May 26, 2022
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