The program helps hospital colleagues discuss strategies to end the stigma around mental health and provide assistance in creating a work environment that is free “Stigma is hugely prominent in the health care industry,” …
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Psychologist: Mental Illness Is a Result of Intolerable Circumstances …
The health professions make a grave mistake when they treat mental illnesses as “discrete brain conditions that are largely genetically determined and barely influenced by the slings and arrows of misfortune,” writes clinical …
The Shameful State of the Mentally Ill in Our Jail System
In the United States, our system for treating mental illness is so broken that sometimes people with mental health issues will break the law so that they can get treated in jail. People used to think putting the mentally ill in …
Why Disability Rights California is suing Pasadena Unified School …
A disability rights group has filed a class-action lawsuit against the Pasadena Unified School District alleging the school discriminates against students with behavioral issues by removing them from their local schools.
How Do Mental Illness Diagnoses Really Compare to Medical …
One of the common complaints I hear about mental illness diagnoses is that they are "unscientific," based upon a bunch of subjective symptoms that are.