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How Biden Plans to Tackle Chronic Gaps in Mental Health Care
(Washington D.C.) — President Joe Biden’s new plan to expand mental health and drug abuse treatment would pour hundreds of millions of dollars into suicide prevention, mental health services for youth, and community clinics providing 24/7 access to people in crisis. Unveiled as part of his State of the Union speech, Biden’s plan seeks to shrink America’s chronic gap in care between diseases of the body and those of the mind. Health insurance plans would have to cover three mental health visits a year at no added cost to patients. But for such a big move, Biden must win backing from lawmakers of both...
Source: TIME: Health - March 3, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR / AP Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Mental Health News Desk wire Source Type: news

Self-Injurious Behavior Rate in the Short-Term Period of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Korea
CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that people who are tested for COVID-19 are at a high risk of SIB during the peak COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, screening for suicide risk and psychological interventions is needed for these high-risk groups.PMID:35166081 | DOI:10.3346/jkms.2022.37.e45
Source: J Korean Med Sci - February 15, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Se Jin Park Soo Jung Rim Minkyung Jo Min Geu Lee Gyurin Kim Subin Park Source Type: research

Researchers Recommend Strategies to Mitigate Risks Due to COVID-19 Economic Impact
The journals of APA Publishing are receiving numerous submissions on aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. To get information about findings to the field faster,Psychiatric News is posting summaries of these submissions soon after acceptance.Among the many ways COVID-19 has adversely impacted mental health is via the economic recession caused by this pandemic. Using data gleamed from previous economic crises, a team of specialists has suggested several health policy actions that may mitigate some of the impact of this recession. These recommendations were posted in aPsychiatric Servicesarticle in press.“The immediate need is...
Source: Psychiatr News - May 18, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Alison Cuellar COVID-19 domestic violence economic impacts insurance coverage mental health Psychiatric Services recession social services suicide prevention telehealth Source Type: research

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