Like Minds, Like Mine TV Ad (Video, .WMV file)
The last of three TV Ads developed in New Zealand by the Link Minds, Like Mine programme. This highly successful anti discrimination programme has been very effective in presenting to the people of New Zealand how mental health problems affect many of our neighbors and friends.
Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Combining Forces Called Best Strategy to Reform MH Care
Psychiatric News article - "Children and minorities are two of the specific populations who will benefit from a long-awaited action agenda on mental health by several federal agencies. By collaborating with a number of federal agencies that administer policies related to labor, education, and criminal justice, federal mental health officials are one step closer to achieving the goals set forth in the 2003 report of the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. A. Kathryn Power, M.Ed., director of the federal Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), spoke recently about the steps she and others are taking to make this vision a reality..."
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Psychiatric News article - "Children and minorities are two of the specific populations who will benefit from a long-awaited action agenda on mental health by several federal agencies. By collaborating with a number of federal agencies that administer policies related to labor, education, and criminal justice, federal mental health officials are one step closer to achieving the goals set forth in the 2003 report of the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. A. Kathryn Power, M.Ed., director of the federal Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), spoke recently about the steps she and others are taking to make this vision a reality..."
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Clinical Trials Controversy Spotlights Flawed System
Psychiatric News story - " The ongoing controversy surrounding SSRIs in children is now threatening the very foundations of clinical drug research on the efficacy and safety of all of the drugs physicians prescribe. Under the frequent—and often hyperbolic—headlines in major newspapers throughout the United States, the debate on whether SSRIs really cause children and adolescents to become suicidal has boiled down to a critical realization: Physicians now face a crisis of confidence in the American-bred system that conducts clinical research and, it would seem, publishes only the most marketable results..." See also, at the same source, AMA Backs All-Inclusive Clinical Trials Registry.
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Psychiatric News story - " The ongoing controversy surrounding SSRIs in children is now threatening the very foundations of clinical drug research on the efficacy and safety of all of the drugs physicians prescribe. Under the frequent—and often hyperbolic—headlines in major newspapers throughout the United States, the debate on whether SSRIs really cause children and adolescents to become suicidal has boiled down to a critical realization: Physicians now face a crisis of confidence in the American-bred system that conducts clinical research and, it would seem, publishes only the most marketable results..." See also, at the same source, AMA Backs All-Inclusive Clinical Trials Registry.
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No stars for NHS hospital trust (UK)
BBC story - "Mid-Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust is one of only 10 acute trusts in England not to have received any stars in this year's NHS ratings. ... Other zero-star awards went to the mental health trusts in Wolverhampton and Worcestershire. Health bosses in Wolverhampton were deemed to have failed to integrate mental health teams into the community, while child protection and crisis management were areas for concern in Worcestershire." See also the NHS star ratings and the BBC's summary of ratings for mental health trusts.
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BBC story - "Mid-Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust is one of only 10 acute trusts in England not to have received any stars in this year's NHS ratings. ... Other zero-star awards went to the mental health trusts in Wolverhampton and Worcestershire. Health bosses in Wolverhampton were deemed to have failed to integrate mental health teams into the community, while child protection and crisis management were areas for concern in Worcestershire." See also the NHS star ratings and the BBC's summary of ratings for mental health trusts.
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Abused, Neglected Youth Do Not Receive Needed Mental Health Services
Newswise press release - "Each year, more than 600,000 children seen in the U.S. child welfare system for alleged maltreatment do not receive mental health care for significant emotional and behavioral problems, reports a study in the August Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. The findings are based on NIMH-funded analyses of the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being, a nationally representative study funded by the US DHHS’s Administration on Children and Families. ... Dr. Burns and colleagues analyzed nationwide data on children and adolescents investigated by child welfare agencies for reported abuse or neglect. A standard child behavior checklist suggested that 48 percent of the children had "clinically significant" emotional or behavioral problems." At the journal web site, a brief abstract is available at no charge, with full text available for a fee.
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Newswise press release - "Each year, more than 600,000 children seen in the U.S. child welfare system for alleged maltreatment do not receive mental health care for significant emotional and behavioral problems, reports a study in the August Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. The findings are based on NIMH-funded analyses of the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being, a nationally representative study funded by the US DHHS’s Administration on Children and Families. ... Dr. Burns and colleagues analyzed nationwide data on children and adolescents investigated by child welfare agencies for reported abuse or neglect. A standard child behavior checklist suggested that 48 percent of the children had "clinically significant" emotional or behavioral problems." At the journal web site, a brief abstract is available at no charge, with full text available for a fee.
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