Mental Health News http://www.havementalhealth.com/mental-health-news 2008-09-08T09:53:23+01:00 text/html http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/homepage/i/int/news/uk/8/-/news/1/hi/health/7599696.stm <a rel='tag' href='/mental-health/mental-health' title='mental-health'>Mental health</a> problems are far from rare in the young - between one in 12 and one in 15 children and teenagers deliberately self-harm, with more than 25,000 admitted to hospital each year due to the severity of their injuries. More than 1% of 11 to ... text/html http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2008/09/06/ap-state-id/d931hi8g0.txt POCATELLO, Idaho - A recent report on <a rel='tag' href='/mental-health/mental-health' title='mental-health'>mental health</a> care systems shows Idaho is one of the lowest ranking states for mental health care nationwide. The Idaho Legislature funded the study by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education ... text/html http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/schizophrenia-patients-denied-talking-therapies-921713.html Thousands of people with <a rel='tag' href='/mental-health/mental-health' title='mental-health'>mental health</a> problems are being denied the best and most effective treatments, years after they were approved by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, according to experts. Proven talking therapies are not offered ... text/html http://www.startribune.com/local/west/27940924.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU They are dumping patients into the private hospitals by bringing them to the ED and furloughing them so they do not need a guard. This is ? read more the cheapest thing for the county sheriff's budget, but hospital days are $2K just for a room. Add ... text/html http://www.newsweek.com/id/156359 Recommended (6) Terror Watch: The Missing Padilla Video Dickey: Airline Security Must Make Sense Analyzing Freud THE TALKING CURE Mail Call: A Global Health Crisis Mail Call And Corrections: Important Concerns Facing Today's Kids If Pakistan 's ... text/html http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20080905-9999-1m5va.html Top mental-health officials for the VA San Diego Healthcare System are spending little time treating the burgeoning caseload of stressed-out war veterans because they are immersed in research, according to a new internal investigation by the ... text/html http://www.timeswv.com/westvirginia/local_story_249212336.html?keyword=secondarystory CHARLESTON ? A new 148-bed psychiatric hospital in Beckley is one of the options the state is exploring to ease overcrowding in its two acute care <a rel='tag' href='/mental-health/mental-health' title='mental-health'>mental health</a> facilities. The options are included in a letter from the attorney general?s office ... text/html http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/society/health/teens+ignorant+about+mental+health/2445467 Young people know little about <a rel='tag' href='/mental-health/mental-health' title='mental-health'>mental health</a> problems, with 46% of 12 to 18-year-olds unable to name a single mental health condition, a poll has revealed. The survey, for Great Ormond Street Hospital, found 53% of young people do not think schools ... text/html http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008159438_apwashootingrampagementalhealth.html Isaac Zamora's mother begged him to get help when he was released from jail a month ago. State and federal laws prevented her from doing much more for the man who has been arrested after a shooting spree in rural northwest Washington that ended with ... text/html http://www.opednews.com/articles/MENTAL-HEALTH-ETCETERA-AND-by-Kenneth-Briggs-080906-274.html Nearly one in five, [thirty thousand], soldiers who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan have posttraumatic stress disorder or depression with only about half of that number actually seeking treatment. Approximately nineteen percent of returning ...