Mental Health

State by state, here's how well schools are doing at supporting kids' mental health

7:16pm February 16, 2022

by Rhitu Chatterjee

Two years of disrupted schooling and limited social contact have been tough on kids. A new report calls out states that do a good job supporting kids' mental health at school — and those that don't.

Health & Safety

News brief: Russia-Ukraine crisis, Sandy Hook settlement, kids' mental health

5:58am February 16, 2022

President Biden urges continued diplomacy over the Russia-Ukraine crisis. Families of Sandy Hook shooting victims reach a settlement with Remington Arms. The pandemic's emotional toll on young people.

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Consensus grows that the pandemic has taken a big emotional toll on young people

5:08am February 16, 2022

A poll finds that nearly 90% of Americans are concerned about the mental health of youth. Another report ranks states by the how they are fairing in terms of access to school based mental health care.

Confused about how worried to be about the pandemic? You're not alone

4:48pm February 14, 2022

by Rob Stein

It's another discombobulating moment in the pandemic, with lots of conflicting signs of where the virus is heading and what people should do about it on a day to day basis.

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What it means for sports fans' mental health when their team loses

4:26pm February 14, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Greg Miller, a licensed professional counselor with Thriveworks in New Jersey, about the real emotional toll that can come from sports fandom.

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This Colorado restaurant hired a therapist to help employees with industry stress

8:13am February 12, 2022

by John Daley - Colorado Public Radio

The mental stress of restaurant work has intensified during the pandemic. To retain staff, restaurant owners in Colorado have hired a therapist for its waiters, cooks and others to consult for free.

Boston College student Ella Snyder says peer counselors helped her process her COVID anxiety as a first-year student in fall 2020.

Demand for college peer counselors is booming. But training only goes so far

7:00am February 12, 2022

by Kirk Carapezza

In a new survey, nearly half of college students said the pandemic has made them more likely to seek out peer counseling. But peer counselors aren't always prepared to deal with crisis situations.

Wyverne Flatt, who is fighting to keep his pot-bellied pig Ellie as an emotional support animal, poses for a photograph at his home in Canajoharie, N.Y.

A man in upstate New York is fighting to keep his emotional support pig

2:48am February 11, 2022

by The Associated Press

Wyverne Flatt says his 110-pound potbellied pig Ellie is "family." Officials in his village of Canajoharie see it very differently. To them, the pig is a farm animal Flatt is harboring illegally.

Eleanor Cole, Ph.D., demonstrates the treatment on trial participant Deirdre Lehman in May 2019 at the Stanford Brain Stimulation Lab.

Health & Safety

An experimental depression treatment uses electric currents to bring relief

6:01am February 06, 2022

by Lesley McClurg

The remedy is a new type of transcranial magnetic stimulation that's showing good results in just five days of treatment. For some patients, it's life-changing.

Gene Cox speaks with Brenda Konkel, president of Occupy Madison and executive director of Madison Area Care for the Homeless OneHealth. Occupy Madison provides tiny houses for people experiencing homelessness in Madison, Wisconsin.

Tiny homes, big dreams: How some activists are reimagining shelter for the homeless

6:01am February 06, 2022

by Giles Bruce

From hand-built wooden sheds to Conestoga huts to prefab shelters, tiny homes are cropping up to get people off the streets, especially during the cold of winter and amid the pandemic.