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Three years after the Maui wildfires, findings from the Maui Wildfire Exposure Study (MauiWES) offer a hopeful but clear message: recovery is underway, but it remains uneven. Many residents are rebuilding routines, returning to work, gaining health insurance, reconnecting with services, and drawing strength from family, culture, community, and 'āina (land).
State government officials in the spring celebrated the pending opening of two crisis response centers, places where adults in a mental health emergency can get counseling, medication, and be linked with long-term treatment while decompressing for up to 24 hours.
Emergency rooms aren't equipped to meet the needs of patients in the midst of a mental health crisis. The rush of people, beeping machines and bright, fluorescent lighting can all worsen anxiety, confusion and agitation.
A federal judge blocked the U.S. Department of Education recently from another attempt to cancel millions in school mental health grants. "Plaintiff states need not wait until the department effectuates terminations to challenge the department's clear intention to do so," U.S. District Judge Kymberly Evanson wrote in a 15-page opinion.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), a division within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced recently that it has awarded $73.2 million in grants to strengthen children's mental health services, suicide prevention programs, and to expand assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) to those with serious mental illness.
Artificial intelligence is transforming how we gather information and communicate with one another. It's also changing how some people seek out mental health care. But what happens when this sophisticated technology is used to deal with serious mental health issues?
A key U.S. government report on mental health, substance use and addiction showed continued improvements in several metrics, especially among young people. There was some uncertainty about the future of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health last year, when the entire 17-member team responsible for it was laid off by the Trump administration.
Kaiser Permanente has committed $10 million to expand the work of the Youth Mental Health Corps, an initiative that supports teenagers by connecting them with young adult peers who provide mental health and navigation support.
Early life stress is a significant risk factor for psychopathology; however, we lack scalable tools to identify youths who are most vulnerable. Here we tested whether the automated analysis of naturalistic speech can predict future mental health outcomes.
Linguistic models that analyzed the words children used when talking about stressful events were better at predicting future mental health problems than a panel of human experts. In a study published in Nature Mental Health, researchers used four natural language processing models to evaluate recorded interviews of more than 200 children, ages 9 to 13, as they talked about stressful events in their lives.
A consistent daily routine may offer meaningful benefits for both physical and mental health, according to new research from the University of Missouri. The study found that older adults who followed regular daily schedules reported less physical pain and fewer symptoms of depression, including those who experienced insomnia.
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