Texas’ Critical Shortage of Psychiatrists, Mental Health Professionals – The Tribune’s Thanh Tan speaks with a Texan living with anxiety and depression, the executive director of the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health at UT-Austin,…

 

Mental health laws may change

Filed under: mental health professionals

One recommendation — giving mental health professionals, not just police officers, the authority to send people into emergency detentions — would be a welcome change, said central Wisconsin police officers. The special committee called together by …
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Mental health maligned in NHS with huge gaps in services

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Dr Geraldine Strathdee, national clinical director for mental health for NHS England, told the Guardian Healthcare Professionals Network that it is "hard to understand" why in one organisation one team can achieve "fantastic outcomes while the one next …
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IDJJ Mental Health Report Focuses on Staffing, Screening, Solitary

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Staffing: The report points to the insufficient number of professionals, lack of a child and adolescent psychiatrist, lack of necessary licensing among mental health staff, inadequate salaries, and insufficient number of security staff. Kraus suggested …
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