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mental illness
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Disabled student abuse goes unpunished in Nev.
Darcy Spears, a reporter at KTNV-Las Vegas, has discovered a number of disturbing stories of teachers abusing special needs students…
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Bernstein, Silberner awarded Carter Fellowships
AHCJ members Elizabeth Bernstein and Joanne Silberner have been awarded Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism for 2009-10. Bernstein,…
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A painful picture of rare childhood mental illness
The Los Angeles Times’ Shari Roan tells the story of a 6-year-old girl suffering from a rare – perhaps even…
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Advocacy group releases mental health media guide
The second edition of a media guide for reporting on suicide and mental illness, prepared by Wisconsin United for Mental…
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Map shows hotspots of mental distress
Ker Than reports in National Geographic News on an intriguing map showing the percentage of folks in each American county…
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Mental health: Reporting beyond the labels (#ahcj09)
If you live with mental illness, tell the truth about it. If you report on mental illness, watch what you…
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Column: Lopez helps erase stigma of mental illness
Those of you who were at last fall’s Urban Health Journalism Workshop – and those of you who weren’t –…
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Texas system fails the chronically homeless
In the first of a series of articles, Kim Horner of The Dallas Morning News looks at the struggle of…
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Mentally ill patients, elderly mix in nursing homes
Carla K. Johnson of The Associated Press reports that “nursing homes have become dumping grounds for young and middle-age people…