Personally Speaking: My Daughter Needed Help, Not Handcuffs
No one should ever have to call a news reporter to ask them to cover their child’s mental health crisis in a desperate bid to get them help. Yet, that is exactly what our broken mental health care system forced me to do two years ago.
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Treatment Advocacy Center Joins Nation’s Other Leading Mental Health Organizations in Releasing a Comprehensive Roadmap for Reimagining Crisis Response for Mental Health, Substance Use Disorders and Suicide Prevention
July of 2022 will officially introduce 988: a new telephone number people in our communities, states and nation will be able to call or text when a crisis arises. While this is an important step, without a comprehensive plan for the rollout, communities will be unprepared to take advantage of its promise and 988 will be little more than a phone number.
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RESEARCH WEEKLY: Perceptions of Stigma in Urban and Nonurban Environments
The shift of individuals with serious mental illness to nonurban areas researchers to examine the impact of perceived stigma and other outcomes of well-being in urban versus nonurban settings.
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RESEARCH WEEKLY: Schizophrenia linked to Higher Mortality from Cancer
Individuals with schizophrenia are at a 50% increased risk of dying from cancer. A substantial proportion of patients with schizophrenia who die from cancer are less likely to receive effective treatment, are not diagnosed until after death, or are diagnosed with cancer in more advanced stages.
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Assisted Outpatient Treatment Program Letter
I write pursuant to your request for feedback on programs funded under the Mental Health Reform Act of 2016. Specifically, I wish to share the views of the Treatment Advocacy Center (“TAC”) on the Assisted Outpatient Treatment Program (42 U.S.C. §290aa), which was initially authorized under the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 after originating as a 2013 TAC proposal in the wake of the Sandy Hook tragedy.
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Best Practices for Family Caregivers of People with Schizophrenia
For the past eleven years, my close family member has had a very misunderstood illness: schizophrenia. In the early days of my family member’s illness, I chose to educate myself and then others about what schizophrenia really is. I searched the internet for information, read every book I could find on the topic, and connected with other family caregivers on social media and in local support groups.
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RESEARCH WEEKLY: Exciting Advances in the Mental Illness Research Field
The Brain and Behavior Research Foundation hosted their Virtual International Mental Health Research Symposium last week, highlighting advances in mental health research over the past year
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Hope and Learning
As part of our ongoing author series, we interviewed author and family member Linda Snow-Griffin about her book, Hope and Learning: Our Journey with Schizophrenia. Snow-Griffin, who holds a in counseling psychology and practiced in West Chester, ,describes her journey raising her son, Jacob, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia in high school. What follows are highlights from our conversation:
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Personally Speaking: From Torture to Treatment
I am the caregiver for my adult family member. He had his first psychotic episode more than eleven years ago. When he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, I knew nothing about this disorder. Well, almost nothing. I knew it would be a lifelong illness. I vowed to take care of him and stay with him throughout this illness.
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Personally Speaking: Fighting for Other Sons
My son, Scott, was born on November 12, 1992, and when he was growing up there was no signs that he had any kind of issue with mental illness until 23 years later. He was living with his brother Chris and his grandparents in New York, and had just graduated from college with an associate’s degree with high honors. We were all so proud of him.
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