Mental Health

U.S. President Joe Biden, left, talks with Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., outside the Oval Office of the White House on Tuesday as the two discuss ongoing negotiations in the Senate around gun law legislation.

Senate gun law negotiators working toward a deal by the end of the week

9:40pm June 07, 2022

Negotiations have narrowed proposals to address school safety, standards for safe gun storage, federal support for mental health programs and incentives for states to create red flag laws.

Psychedelics might be the next big thing in mental health care, experts say

4:29pm June 07, 2022

by Eilís O'Neill

Researchers at the University of Washington are investigating whether psychedelics could alleviate depression in healthcare workers. The pandemic saw record burnout among doctors and nurses.

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Texas ranks last in mental health care among U.S. states

8:02am June 04, 2022

by Scott Simon

Scott Simon speaks with Dr. Sarah Wakefield, the chair of psychiatry at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, about the state's mental health programs for youth.

A memorial dedicated to the victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

What the shooting in Uvalde has meant for the Latino community

7:09am June 04, 2022

While the nation is reeling from the shooting in Uvalde, Texas, the Latino community is being hit particularly hard as they see the names and photos of the victims who look and sound like them.

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People sit Feb. 14 in front of a photo display of the 17 people killed four years earlier during a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.

A teacher who was at the Parkland shooting offers advice for the Uvalde survivors

11:33am June 03, 2022

Kim Krawczyk, a teacher who survived the Parkland, Fla., school shooting in 2018, shares advice for the community in Uvalde, Texas, after last week's mass shooting there.

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Why teens are choosing the app BeReal over Instagram

4:39pm June 02, 2022

by Bobby Allyn

BeReal asks people to post one candid, unedited photo a day. It can't be "liked" or shared. There are no algorithms. No ads. The feed of your friends' photos is intentionally boring and mundane.

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When teens threaten violence, a community responds with compassion

4:42pm June 01, 2022

by Rhitu Chatterjee

A growing number of schools have adopting an evidence-based approach to preventing violence on their campuses. The plan recognizes that a student contemplating violence is a student in crisis.

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Henry Jones, who kept getting sicker after 11 years of homelessness, was admitted in 1991 into Christ House, one of the first medical respite programs in the country.

Medical respite offers refuge for homeless people recovering from illness

10:12am May 30, 2022

A growing number of private insurance companies are starting to invest in medical respite — a decades-old way of caring for homeless people. Here's what's driving the trend.

News brief: Uvalde police response, Colombia election, pandemic mental illness

6:23am May 30, 2022

Biden visited Uvalde as DOJ announced a review of how police responded to the attack. There will be a presidential runoff in Colombia. People with serious mental illness struggled during the pandemic.

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3 people share how they lived through the pandemic with a serious mental illness

5:01am May 30, 2022

More than one in 20 Americans struggled with serious mental illness before the pandemic dealt a blow to the world's mental health. How have these people have fared?