All Mental Healthcare Articles
  • How nurses help underserved communities

    Keith Carlson Medical & Allied Healthcare

    ​Nurses have a rich history of contributing to the welfare of underserved populations. As the backbone, lifeblood, and connective tissue of the healthcare industry, nurses interface regularly with citizens who are most in need of compassionate care grounded in nursing science. When Lillian Wald founded The Henry Street Settlement in 1893, she was doing what nurses do best, which is recognizing a problem that can be mitigated by the nursing process and nursing intervention.

  • Ready or not, MACRA is coming

    Scott E. Rupp Healthcare Administration

    From meaningful use to the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), the headlines in healthcare for the foreseeable future will surround the latest payment carrot-and-stick regulations. Like meaningful use, which is now regular vernacular in healthcare, the potentially disruptive MACRA will soon be just as popular of an expression for those in every aspect of the care protocols. Right now, not so much.

  • What’s behind the rise in teen depression?

    Christina Nava Mental Healthcare

    ​Back in high school, I had a friend who was depressed. His teacher, who had seen us together in the halls frequently, pulled me aside one day to express her concerns because he had developed a bad attitude and started sleeping in class, and his grades were plummeting.

  • How the brain adapts to childhood adversity

    Dorothy L. Tengler Mental Healthcare

    ​Mental illnesses in children are so complex that healthcare professionals cannot always detect them. Symptoms for mental disorders can be so nonspecific that even parents cannot tell if their child is being rambunctious or seriously ill.

  • One step closer to ending an era of stigma

    Jessica Taylor Mental Healthcare

    Wednesday, July 6, marked a big day for the U.S. when a bill that should significantly change mental healthcare overwhelmingly cleared the U.S. House of Representatives with a vote of 422-2. Introduced by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) after the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act would "make available needed psychiatric, psychological and supportive services for individuals diagnosed with mental illness and families in mental health crisis, and for other purposes."

  • Marijuana may help clean out amyloid beta from your brain

    Dr. Denise A. Valenti Medical & Allied Healthcare

    The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) considers marijuana a Schedule I narcotic, and as such is considered to have no medical value. Medical research is continuing to show otherwise. The Salk Institute located in La Jolla, California, ​recently reported that a team of scientists have demonstrated that the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana — tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC — may help remove the "cellular glue" that is part of the damaging pathology in Alzheimer's disease. The results have been published ​in the June issue of Nature.

  • News of tragedy affects overall mental health

    Kelly Sharp Mental Healthcare

    Within the past few days, America has been shaken by several shocking deaths. Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, were killed at the hands of police officers. Then, five police officers were killed by a sniper during a protest in Dallas about the death of Sterling and Castile.

  • Researchers find brain circuit that spurs bullying in mice

    Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied Healthcare

    Bullying — whether physical, emotional or social — should not be considered a normal rite of passage or "kids just being kids." The effects of bullying can be serious, including depression, low self-esteem, health problems and even suicide.

  • Research: More access to treatment for opioid use is needed

    Dr. Abimbola Farinde Pharmaceutical

    ​The prevalence of opioid misuse has increased substantially, which can be largely attributed to the increased prescribing of opioids in the United States. Opioid use disorder is recognized as a chronic and relapsing illness that can be associated with increased morbidity and mortality if not identified and treated.

  • Telehealth gets ethical

    Scott E. Rupp Healthcare Administration

    Telehealth efforts continue to gain traction as more health systems explore ways to implement the strategies to meet patients and move more people to out-patient care. With the growth have come the vendors, the technology and the regulation. Now comes a set of ethics guidelines from the American Medical Association.