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mental health
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N.C. county’s mental health services overwhelmed
The one million people who live in North Carolina’s Mecklenburg County are served by a single 66-bed county mental health…
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Winning work: Swine flu, costs and mental health
In the SPJ’s 2010 Sunshine State Awards, AHCJ members made their presence felt in the “Medical/Health Care/Science Reporting” category, where…
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Mental health parity law implementation evolves
Writing for Kaiser Health News and The Washington Post, Sandra Boodman considers the effect that the American mental health parity…
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Comments invited on latest draft of DSM
A new version of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has come out every decade…
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More vets come home as result of psychiatric issues
On Shots, NPR’s Health Blog, Nadja Popovich reports on a recent Johns Hopkins study that found, more troops were evacuated…
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Learning from Calif.’s mental health parity law
On the Los Angeles Times Booster Shots blog, Shari Roan writes about a recent scholarly review of California’s mental health…
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Resources to cover mental health and the military
AHCJ offers resources to help journalists cover the wide range of health topics, including those surrounding the military, veterans and post-traumatic…
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Equal treatment for mental health in peril
Phyllis Vine of MIWatch.org, a site about mental illness, writes that last year’s mental health parity legislation has run into…
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Tompkins: Juvenile jails taking on mentally ill youth
Al Tompkins, the reliable story-spotter at the Poynter Institute, jumped at the potential to localize a New York Times story…
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DoD campaigns against stigma of depression, PTSD
The Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury’s new Real Warriors campaign is designed to aid…