Health bosses have secured ï¿¡2.8 million of government funding to provide better mental health counselling services for people.
The new cash will allow both East Sussex Downs and Weald and Hastings and Rother Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), working closely with Sussex Partnership Trust, to recruit staff who offer properly supervised low and high intensity talking therapies.
The [...]
tate and city officials report that flaws in the mental health and criminal justice systems have contributed to violence in people with serious mental illness.
A panel was charged with studying the issue after several high profile incidents of violence involving suspects with mental illness _ including the case of a New York City psychotherapist who [...]
Kristofer Goldsmith was so distressed about the prospect of returning to Iraq that he decided he was willing to kill himself to avoid serving a second tour.
The Army had mandated an extension of his three-year contract, which had been set to expire, as his unit was set to deploy to Baghdad as part of the [...]
A resident of a halfway house for psychiatric patients is accused of severely beating a staff counselor he’d been dating, holding her captive in a car until the woman’s parents reached her cell phone, police said today.
Hearing her terrified voice, the parents called 911, and police later discovered the bloody couple parked a quarter mile [...]
Welcome to Generation Z, the forgotten generation. Generation Z encompasses children aged 17 and younger, one in five of whom will have some form of mental illness.
One in four will be bullied, most likely over the internet. Also known as the New Silent Generation, it will be the most educated, financially well-off and technologically literate [...]
OTTAWA - A new study suggests that the use of the health-care system in Canada, and mental health services in particular, differs by sexual orientation.
A report published Wednesday by Statistics Canada sought to answer whether sexual identity had anything to do with having a regular doctor, consulting health-care providers, taking preventive screening tests and having [...]
Children will face a battery of tests under a “lighter touch†assessment regime that could be every bit as stressful for their mental health as the national curriculum SATs test they are designed to replace, teachers were told yesterday.
Instead of being drilled for “high-stakes†SATs at age 11 and 14, pupils face the prospect [...]
A survey by a British childrens charity found that children are more materialistic than past generations and worry if they dont have fashionable clothes and high-tech gadgets.
Children from poor backgrounds were more likely to feel distressed if they were falling behind the latest trends.
Institute of Child Health professor Philip Graham, who was part of the [...]
In Britain, many cabinet and shadow cabinet members have admitted to using cannabis but, rather than relaxing the laws concerning the drug, they are planning to tighten them. Today the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs is due to hear evidence on whether or not cannabis should be reclassified from class C up to [...]
Ian Wise, appearing for the mother, said the baby was taken without the mother’s consent after hospital staff were shown a “birth plan” prepared by social services. The plan said the mother, who had a troubled childhood and suffers from mental health problems, was to be separated from the child, and no contact allowed without [...]
