A mentally-ill girl accused of murder spent more than 120 days at this juvenile detention center before the state reluctantly agreed to provide her treatment. Judge Matthew Hanson says the state is not doing enough to help …
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Inequality Lingers in Mental Health Treatment for Minorities
A woman stands alone in front of a bridge The mental health care industry in the United States is trying to close an ongoing gap in treatment quality and availability that disproportionately appears to impact minorities.
Why We Need to Abandon the Disease-Model of Mental Health Care
… about the nature and origins of mental health problems. We need wholesale and radical change, not only in how we understand mental health problems, but also in how we design and commission mental health services.
Horry County starts program for criminals with mental illness | WBTW …
MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WBTW) – A new program in Horry County works to keep people with mental health disorders out of prison. The program is called Mental Health Court and it's the opposite of Drug Court, in that it ensures …
Mental Health Zines | ZineLibraries.info
As part of LIS Mental Health Week, the Zine Librarians listserv crowdsourced a list of zines related to mental health that we love. zines with personal narratives of mental health/illness. April Fools Day, by Kathleen Hanna