Monday, March 24, 2003

War-Fear Strategies: A Newsmaker Interview With David Riggs, PhD
An interview at Medscape with Riggs, coauthor of the Guidelines for Mental Health Professionals' Response to the Recent Tragic Events in the US, published online by the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. [Viewing Medscape resources requires registration, which is free].  
  

Medication May Help Prevent Suicide in Teens
Article from The Brown University Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology Update at Medscape based on a presentation entitled "The Best Management of the Suicidal Teen: In the Absence of Good Evidence, What Makes Good Sense?" at the 2003 Psychopharmacology Update Institute of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry by David Shaffer. [Viewing Medscape resources requires registration, which is free.]  
  

Medscape Journal Scan - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, February 2003
Highlighted articles from Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, The American Journal of Psychiatry, Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychopharmacology and the Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry. [Viewing Medscape resources requires registration, which is free].  
  

Economic Downturn and State Budget Woes Overshadow Seattle Health Care Market
A "community report" from the Center for Studying Health System Change which finds that "Seattle's struggling economy and rapidly rising health care costs, coupled with a state budget deficit, threaten to unravel recent gains in health insurance coverage."  
  

Where Is The Growth in the Uninsured Population Coming From?
Index of documents (in Adobe Acrobat format) related to a policy briefing co-sponsored by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, including Changes in Health Care Coverage 2000-2001, The New Middle-Class of Uninsured Americans -- Is it Real? and The Uninsured and Their Access to Health Care fact sheet  
  

Coping with stress sparked by Iraq war
Jersey Journal story based on comments by Michael Faenza, president and CEO of National Mental Health Association and focused on resources available in New Jersey.  
  

Mental health center gets state funding for program (South Carolina)
Story in the Sun News - "Georgetown's Waccamaw Center for Mental Health plans to develop a "crisis stabilization center" for patients awaiting treatment for mental illness and substance abuse disorders who otherwise might spend hours in local emergency rooms or jails. The center is among four mental health centers across South Carolina receiving funding for crisis stabilization programs from the S.C. Department of Mental Health."  
  

The crisis in community mental health: "Invest now or risk lives" says CMHA (Canada)
CNW wire story - "Services for the seriously mentally ill are in jeopardy across Ontario without a significant commitment of new funding in next week's provincial budget. This is according to new information collected by the Canadian Mental Health Association, Ontario Division from its 33 branches across the province."  
  

Mental Health: Pay Now -- or Later?
Article in Business Week Online - "Cash-strapped states that are slashing funding for the care of the mentally ill could be sorry down the road."  
  

Keep focus on mental health care (North Dakota)
"Viewpoint" column in the Grand Forks Herald by Karin Romig Larson, director of the division of mental health and substance abuse services for the North Dakota Department of Human Services, who urges that "we need to sustain the array of treatment services and to continue enhancing them as needed."