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How Solitary Confinement Affects People with Mental Illness | World …

For example, approximately one-third to one-half of Indiana's Secure Housing Unit's prison population has mental illness, according to a report obtained in 1997. During the same year, a federal court found that about half of …

Schizoaffective Disorder, Ethics, and Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys

In schizoaffective disorder, a mood episode and the active-phase symptoms of schizophrenia occur together and are preceded or are followed by at least 2 weeks of delusions or hallucinations without prominent mood …

Resilience Peer Network to supplement student mental health services

Gong-Guy added the network will give students access to mental health care services different from those offered at hospitals or Counseling and Psychological Services. She added the program is in its early stages, and …

The California Bar Has Apparently Already Stopped Asking About …

When I clicked through, I saw the following statement (without attribution) that β€œIn California, the State Bar has removed its question asking about mental health diagnosis and treatment.” For the past year or so, I've been talking …

These Incredible People Are Changing How Isolated Asian Groups …

As well as treating Hmong patients, Lo is conducting research to better understand how mental illness is understood in the community β€” finding that previous efforts to do so had gotten lost in translation. The few psychiatrists …