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 ...
Public healthPublic policy Serious mental illness and gun violence| Public attitudes and support for gun policy THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY Colleen BarryGail Daumit McGintyEmma EIn recent years, mass shootings by persons with serious mental illness (SMI) have received considerable public attention ...
In a press conference Wednesday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that the 18-year-old gunman had a "mental health challenge." However, the shooter who killed 19 students and two teachers has no known or diagnosed mental health issues or criminal history. For researchers and experts in the fields...
Additional assumptions around mental illness and gun violence place the burden for any solution on the ability of mental health professionals, law enforcement and/or family members to predict who might be likely to commit an act of violence with their firearm. “Red flag laws” which allow ...
What’s to blame for our epidemic of gun violence aren’t the guns — but mental illness. “People want a quick solution. The long-term solution here is to address the mental health issue,” Abbott said on Sunday. The claim was repeated by Rep. Keith Self, a congressman representing ...
Mental health disorders are much more strongly linked to self-harm or suicide than to violence against others. A very small proportion of people with serious mental illness pose a threat to others, the researchers stress, and gun violence and mental illness intersect only on their margins, they...
Gun violence and mental illness: Talking with Liza H. Gold, MDWhat policy prescriptions, if any, would you make on a federal level for reducing gun violence in America? That question and more answered.H. FormanThe Psychiatric times
“Despite the public, political, and media narrative thatmental health is at the root of gun violence (especially mass shootings), this study did not find it to be the case,” Lu and Temple wrote in the full study published inPreventive Medicine. ...
TREATMENT OR GUN CONTROL?: CONGRESSIONAL DISCOURSE ON MENTAL ILLNESS AND VIOLENCE Following the tragic shooting at Newtown in December 2012, the Obama administration and several states proposed new firearms laws and policies that affect persons with mental illness, as well as mental health service prov...
health that reverberate through whole communities., director of interpersonal violence research at Rutgers University said, “The findings demonstrate that gun violence has wide-reaching health implications not only for individuals, but entire neighborhoods. Gun violence is not only a public health crisis...