According to the National Institute of Mental Health, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is diagnosed in people who face traumatic events, the repercussions of which are experienced by them for ...

Faced with the increasing possibility of significant Medicaid cuts, San Diego County supervisors did not back away from further mental health care investments Tuesday, approving requests for ...

It’s among an array of mental health services on the chopping block in Governor Maura Healey’s budget proposal for the coming fiscal year. A proposed 7 percent increase in the department’s ...

and behavioral disorders and improve mental health. The committee that wrote the report began its study in 2023, and the report was finalized before recent major structural and workforce changes ...

Postnatal mental health services are closing across the country due to a lack of funding despite record numbers of women seeking help, The Independent can reveal. One in five of the 600,000 women ...

Editor’s Note: Help is available if you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters. In the US: Call or text 988, the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Globally ...

Exposure to fine particulate air pollution (PM 2.5) from wildfire smoke is linked to increased emergency department (ED) visits for mental health conditions, according to a recent study.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Philadelphia Police Department piloted Crisis ...

The unit started as a pilot program in late 2022, nearly two years after the fatal police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr., who was experiencing a mental health episode when police responded to his ...

Australia is at the pointy end of a mental health crisis. Psychological stress is mounting, particularly among younger Australians. At the same time there's a serious workforce crunch in mental ...

Over the summer, the 43-year-old Des Moines mother had exhausted every avenue to find her teenage son the mental health care he badly needed as his behavior spiraled to alarming and dangerous levels.

As Michael Cooper began examining Canada’s youth mental-health crisis several years ago, one fact above all became frustratingly clear to the Toronto-based researcher. There is a dire shortage ...