Category Archives: NPR

Edmonton police lobby for the right to take mental health patients to …

Police said they've worked with partners to identify the 19 highest users of emergency services. Of those, 13 have now been housed. The service also offers more training for officers on how to relate to mental health patients.

Mental Health First Aid Program Comes to NYC | Al Jazeera America

A daylong training program that teaches volunteers to recognize and respond to mental health crises will soon be offered to a quarter of a million New Yorkers, in a bid to make such training as common as that for CPR or first …

Book about mental illness — created by a Jewish father and son …

“Challenger Deep” may be fiction, but it is written from the experiences that Shusterman had parenting Brendan as he went through many diagnoses for mental illness during his teen years. In his acceptance remarks at the …

Jessica Jones Is a Show About Trauma That Doesn't Skip Over The …

Plenty of media narratives touch on trauma and recovery nowadays, and PTSD has become a common trope. But in real life, everybody deals with trauma differently—and Marvel's new series Jessica Jones actually shows the …

Refugees to be offered mental health services in Canada | Ottawa …

Some of the Syrian refugees coming to Canada could be afflicted with mental health problems and will be offered psychological counselling to help them through their ordeal, says the federal health minister. Jane Philpott …