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There are two questions, really. First, are people with mental illnesses more likely to commit an act of gun violence? That question is important, but so is the reverse: When an act of gun violence is committed, is the perpetrator likely to have a mental disorder? "In short, the answer...
The effects of gun violence on mental health According to Clinical Psychologist Leah Blain, Ph.D., exposure to trauma, including to gun violence, increases the risk of negative health outcomes likepost-traumatic stress disorder(PTSD), anxiety, and depression. These disorders can cause and exacerbat...
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 ill...
In “Stop blaming mental Illness for gun violence” Laurie Levy, writes about how when a gun violence tragedy happens mental illness gets blamed for it. Levy believes that the real issue of gun violence is that too many people have guns. She talks about Joe Scarborough, who is a show hos...
Researchers found that contrary to public beliefs, most mental health symptoms were not tied to gun violence; instead, easy firearm access was the primary cause. “News media coverage on gun violence tended to implicate mental illness as the cause of gun violence and fre...
The root causes of any type of gun violence are complex and often associated with additional risk factors that correlate more strongly than mental illness alone. Studies show that alcohol and drug usage increase therisk of violent crime by as much as sevenfold, even among persons with no history...
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 dangerous people framework suggests that the group of people with mental illness should be responsible for gun violence whereas the dangerous weapons framework suggests that the responsibility is in the widespread access to guns (Swanson and Gilbert, 2011). A group of scholars (Friedman, 2006;...
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