While House Holds Hearing on Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities Washington DC | July 7, 2011 – Today the National Coalition to End Child Abuse Deaths (NCECAD) released the new report The Growing Crisis in Child Protection – a compilation of national media headlines drawing attention to the growing number of child abuse and neglect [...]
An NIMH-funded program already shown to reduce risky sexual and substance abuse behavior among HIV-infected adults also appears to be effective in improving the lives of HIV-infected homeless or near-homeless adults, according to a new report. The study was published in the November 2008 issue of the American Journal of Public Health. Background Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus, [...]
Arlington, VA – Calling the NBC Show, The Baby Borrowers, exploitive and harmful to young children and families mental health, the American Psychiatric Association is urging NBC to provide a better review process of its programming in the future and to take into consideration the serious mental health implications shows such as the Baby Borrowers [...]
Statement by David Shern, Ph.D., President and CEO of Mental Health America ALEXANDRIA, VA. (July 1, 2008)-The reports today of the death of a mental health patient in the Kings County Hospital psychiatric emergency room are deeply troubling and demand further investigation to determine the root cause of this incident. Given the problems that were [...]
ARLINGTON, Va.-The reported death of a woman at King’s County Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., illustrates the dire need for more public services for individuals with mental illness, according to the American Psychiatric Association. According to news reports, a woman who was suffering from agitation and psychosis, was kept waiting in the emergency room for almost [...]
Washington—Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a precedent-setting 5-4 decision, reversing a May 2007 ruling of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, and holding that the imposition of the death penalty for child rape violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and its Louisiana Chapter filed [...]
Research conducted by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network has found harassment and bullying as a result of family structure to be a significant concern for children in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) families. The report, “Gay…Families and Education,” also suggests that LGBT parents exhibit a greater involvement in their children’s education. Details…
The majority of Hurricane Katrina survivors who developed mental disorders after the disaster are not receiving the mental health services they need, and many who were receiving mental health care prior to the hurricane were not able to continue with treatment, according to an NIMH-funded study published online ahead of print December 17, 2007, in the [...]
Arlington, Va. – The American Psychiatric Association (APA) applauds recent Congressional efforts to acknowledge and improve treatment for the large number of people with mental illnesses and substance use disorders who are currently incarcerated in U.S. jails and prisons. According to a 2006 report by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), entitled “Mental Health [...]
NASW signs on to Amicus Brief with other human rights organizations Washington – Upholding the profession of social work’s commitment to human rights and social justice, the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) supports the ability of Guantanamo detainees to challenge their detention through our Constitutional system of government checks and balances. The cases, Boumediene [...]
By Elizabeth J. Clark, Ph.D., ACSW, MPH Over the past two years, the concept of social work advocacy for social justice has been under attack. In 2005, the Chronicle of Higher Education published an article regarding a request from the National Association of Scholars asking the U.S. Department of Education to investigate the Council on [...]