On July 7, 2022, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed House Bills 1561 and 1563 into law, asAct 32 of 2022andAct 33 of 2022, respectively. Act 32 of 2022 amended the confidentiality provisions of the state Mental Health Procedures Act (the “MHPA”)[1]and Act 33 amend...
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Children and young people with care-experience (e.g. foster, kinship and residential care) report poorer mental health and wellbeing than the general popul
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The results were partly surprising, as this model further improved the model fit and confirmed our prediction that mental health variables act as moderators of the dosage effect. However, this was only the case for anxiety, not depression. So far, a similar relationship has only been ...
The mental health of students has become one of the top concerns in higher education. The number of students reporting distress and seeking services has dramatically increased, and colleges and universities are struggling to address these challenges. A rich and growing body of research documents the...
I last wrote what the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare or the ACA) will mean to mental health treatment in the U.S. over a year ago. Since the Act's passage and further analysis of it, it's time to revisit this topic. Some of the initial rosy predictions about the ...
this app. It’s helping me sleep, it’s helping me be more mindful of myself and how I should be, and I haven’t clenched my jaw in days (which is major progress). My ONLY ISSUE is it has a lot of things that I really need, locked. This is a mental health app is it not?
As we navigated through the pandemic, employees were facing growing workplace mental health challenges, despite the efforts of many employers. To better understand these challenges, and the factors that contribute to them, from February to April 2022 the McKinsey Health Institute conducted a survey ...
The timely identification of patients who are at risk of a mental health crisis can lead to improved outcomes and to the mitigation of burdens and costs. However, the high prevalence of mental health problems means that the manual review of complex patie