Public healthExposureFrequent and recent gun violence exposure increases mental health risks.Witnessing shootings more than once is strongly associated with suicidal ideation.Exposure to gun violence is linked to increased mental health service utilization.Findings highlight the need for targeted interventions...
Despite the public, political, and media narrative that mental health is at the root of gun violence, evidence is lacking to infer a causal link. This study examines the temporal associations between gun violence (i.e., threatening someone with a gun and gun carrying) and mental health (i....
NEW YORK, July 5 (Xinhua) -- Whenever there is a call to do something about gun violence, many point to mental health as the problem, but the truth remains far more complicated, reported Psychology Today on Friday. There are two questions, really. First, are people with mental illnesses ...
Gun violence can be defined as the use of a firearm to cause death or harm, either intentionally or unintentionally. The effects of gun violence on mental health may take a variety of forms, ranging from impacts on survivors, such as PTSD, to prejudice against those with existing mental illn...
In addition to the physical and mental health consequences of gun violence, the injury also caused survivors an increase in financial burdens. Medical expenses rose by an average of 2,495 U.S. dollars per person per month after the injury, marking a more than 400 percent increase compared wit...
Using Abbott’s framing, the mere suggestion of mental illness becomes the deciding risk factor for firearm violence instead of what it really is: a medical condition just like heart disease, cancer or diabetes. Furthermore, the suggestive psychiatric diagnoses floated by the media, laypeople and ...
While witnessing and living with the grim reality of their peers getting caught in the line of gunfire, Durham’s young people are hurting, and they are asking the community for mental health tools to help them process the impact of gun violence. ...
The country’s gun violence problem was thrust into the national conversation again this week after a shooter killed 3 children and 3 adults at a Christian school in Tennessee; nobody who was shot survived. The shooter was killed by police. “We are in a week when people are paying attenti...
San Jose schools are link to student mental health services “I was a teacher during (the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting). I had that firsthand experience of having to work with students to explain to them the dangers of gun violence,” Magana told San José...
NO EASY FIX TO HALT VIOLENCE Gun Control, Mental Health Funding Two Parts of Competing Political ViewsIn an address to the nation, President Barack Obama promisedaction to prevent future mass...Brunt, Jonathan