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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia temporarily closed admissions at five mental hospitals Friday amid a staffing crisis. The move will allow the hospitals to reduce the number of patients through attrition, not discharges, until there are enough employees to
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Separate assessments were made for different types of professionals, support groups, self-help groups, mental health crisis hotlines (assumed to be visits with nonpsychiatrist mental health specialists), CAM therapies, and use of other treatment settings, including admissions to hospitals and other ...
Method We used administrative data to examine mental health service use among youth aged 10 to 24 in Brit‑ ish Columbia, Canada, between April 1, 2019, and March 31, 2022. We compared rates of community-based mental health service use, emergency department visits, and...
Nearly 20% of adults drink at a level that is potentially hazardous to health and many mental and physical health conditions are partially or wholly attributable to alcohol [15, 19–22]. One in five patients in UK hospitals use alco- hol in a way that harms mental and/or physical health...
HEALTH Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX: To provide new equipment to enhance care for premature infants. Bread for the City, Washington, DC: To support the Medical Program. Caridad Center, Inc., Boynton Beach, FL: For general support. Center for Courageous Kids, Scottsvill...
Experiences of trauma in childhood and adulthood are highly prevalent among service users accessing acute, crisis, emergency, and residential mental health services. These settings, and restraint and seclusion practices used, can be extremely traumatic,
The aim of this paper was to review and summarize research on prevalence of health risk behaviours, their outcomes as well as risk and protective factors among adolescents in the English-speaking Caribbean. Searching of online databases and the World Wid
The end of our chapter remembers a great and kind man whose call should be heard widely and often among mental health professionals, particularly those who work in correctional settings and forensic hospitals: Many years ago, I met with Dr. Georg Stürup in his Randers, Denmark, home. Dr. ...