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There are no easy solutions to the youth mental health crisis. Its causes are multiple. Still, health insurers must be held accountable for their part in making the situation much worse by evading all attempts to induce them to cover mental healthcare in ways that make it accessible. N...
While the burden is often on schools and health care providers, there is clearly a role for benefits leaders in pushing for more youth mental health support within benefits programs.
To compound matters, the research has consistently shown that being incarcerated in a correctional facility is far more likely to worsen, not lessen, the mental health conditions of those individuals, which suggests that when they are eventually released into society, their...
More than 500,000 children were identified as needing mental health and psychosocial support. "Life has become nothingness without water, food, the basics of life and a source of income. How can we live in such a situation?" lamented Sharif Atallah, a Palestinian from Deir al-Balah. The ...
When I tell people how much counseling is improving my mental health, I get the same response. “I really need to do that. How much does it cost? Do they take insurance?” While lot’s of counselors would be glad to take your insurance, high co-pays and deductibles raise a financial...
A message from International Association for Suicide Prevention: You have shown great courage in taking this first step towards seeking help. We hope you can use this strength to access the appropriate services who can support you through this difficult
The state of Georgiasettled with Department of Justice in 2010, agreeing to create more community-based services so that people can live and get mental health treatment near their homes. But advocates like Lipson say this community mental health system has a long way to go to meet the needs ...
damned, we are all a crossroads. As so many of us finally,finally,begin to accept and admit that we are a nation rife with violence and racism and inequality that we must rise up against with ever fiber of our beings, the cost to our mental health has been great. So many of us ...
The gap between need and access to youth mental health care is incontestable. Between 50-80 percent of youth who need support access no treatment at all. And this gap is a feature, not a bug, of how care is delivered. Most mental health treatment happens in brick-and-mortar, hard-to...