Kennedy. It also discusses U.S President Barack Obama's plan to protect our children and our communities by reducing gun violence.HickeyJaneD.EBSCO_AspDevelopments in Mental Health LawHickey JD: Gun prohibitions for people with mental illness: what should the policy be? Dev Ment Health Law 32:1-12, 2013
Following the August mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, President Trump said publicly that mental illness is linked to gun violence and characterized psychiatric patients as "mentally ill monsters." In response, the American Psychiatric Association quickly issued a statement saying t...
Increased medical morbidity is, in part, caused by underdiagnosis and undertreatment of medical conditions in people with mental illness [25]. Environmental influences, including violence, homicide, victimization, and incarceration, are also important factors and/or mediators of premature mortality. Gun ...
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;...
Help for mental illness is widely available yet many reject help. Why don't some people get help for mental illness? Bipolar Burble blog.
and help-seeking for mental health problems. For the parameters of this research, discussion on “young people” or “youth” can include people aged 10 to 29 years approximately, with adolescence and emerging adulthood being discussed separately when possible. The term “mental health problem” ...
What we can be sure of is that there will be the usual rhetoric about mental illness and gun control. What there will not be is any solution to the growing problem of violence on campus. It is clear that campus shootings are always related to childhood abuse and trauma. Why are colleges...
The Louisville bank shooter bought a gun despite struggles with mental health – Washington Post Do you see why we urgently need sweeping mental healthcare reform? I’ve all but given up on any hope of gun-law reform. My wife Honoree was shot and killed three weeks ago by a stranger almo...
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It matters how you personally respond when you hear news of violence. The way you process and frame it has real mental and physical impacts. Mass shootings, deadly hate crimes, terror, murder, gun violence and war all have their particular details, but each story revives age-old, yet urgent...