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Bleeding or choking usually comes to mind when people think about first aid, but for some students, first aid involves learning how to talk someone out of suicide. The Campus Alcohol and Drug Education Center is offering Mental Health First...

U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., received the 2014 Allies in Action Award from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention last week. The honor was for introducing the Mental Health First Aid Act, which is aimed at improving recognition of early...

Representative Geran Tarr (D-Anchorage) proposed legislation to authorize the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services to administer a Youth Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training program and accompanying grants. Youth Mental Health First Aid training teaches trainees to detect...

Twenty one percent of adult Oklahomans — 700,000-950,000 individuals — reported having a mental health issue during the past year, according to the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. Mental illnesses includes major depression, major anxiety disorders, bipolar...

To strengthen mental health efforts for veterans, the bill would require the Department of Veterans Affairs to establish an education and support program to educate and train family members and caregivers of veterans on different mental health disorders. This would...

This month we learned of the tragic deaths of two Colorado high school students who attended Douglas County High School, and it seems long ago when we in Larimer County enjoyed a school year without a youth suicide. Link to...

The topic of mental health has become more open and knowledgeable as the public learns about mental illness and substance abuse. Mike Deal, executive director of the Southwest Behavioral Health Center explains in a KCSG Community Window interview the purpose...

Although hundreds of prisoners with mental illness remain in solitary confinement, sometimes for extended periods of time, prison leaders are improving mental health treatment and disciplinary policy to more humanely treat their mentally ill populations. Link to Source

People from service organizations, churches and others just wanting to learn more got a lesson in mental health CPR. The program developed in Australia in 2001 helps people understand what mental health illness is and how to recognize the warning signs...

Mental illness affects each individual differently. Some self-mutilate. Some abuse drugs. Some consider suicide. Some die from their illness to escape the pain. Sharon C. Engdahl has met with them all. And she believes that just as administering CPR at the...

From Columbine to Sandy Hook Elementary School, the gunmen behind America’s worst school shootings have all had serious mental health issues. Thus, some Texas school districts have decided to take extreme measures to protect students. A few weeks ago, Argyle...

Gun violence is clearly a national crisis. Horrific instances of mass violence get the most attention, but instances of single-shootings gun violence are much more common and just as deadly. What is psychology’s best advice to policymakers to solve the...