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    May 24, 2023

    Maternal Mental Health: A Brief Look at the Impact of Birth Trauma

    • Diverse populations, Patients and Families, Trauma

    For some women, childbirth can be a traumatic event often associated with birth complications or a near miss for maternal mortality 1. A traumatic birth involves a perceived or life-threatening series of events that result in severe injury or death of the infant or mother. This traumatic experience increases the risk of developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after birth and can lead to challenges with attachment between the birthing parent and their infant

    April 17, 2023

    Addressing the Public Mental Health Challenge of Climate Change

    • By Katherine Catalano, Elizabeth Haase, M.D.
    • Patients and Families, Public awareness, Trauma

    For most Americans, the face of climate change is extreme weather and natural disasters. More than 40% of Americans live in a county impacted by a major natural disaster in the last year. In the last seven years, natural disasters cost the United States more than a trillion dollars in damage and more than 5,000 lives were lost.

    January 06, 2023

    New Report Calls for Research on 988 Crisis Line Effectiveness, Caller Demographics, and More

    • New research, Public awareness, Suicide and self-harm, Trauma

    It has been nearly six months since the launch of 988—the nationwide suicide prevention and mental health crisis line. While available evidence suggests that crisis lines may help to reduce immediate crisis, substantial gaps remain in understanding how crisis lines work, according to a report in the December issue of JAMA Psychiatry.

    November 14, 2022

    Decriminalizing Mental Illness and Promoting Mental Health Equity 

    • Diverse populations, Serious mental illness, Teens and young adults, Trauma

    A poll commissioned by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) found that only 1 in 5 Americans believe that those in jails and prisons are getting the mental health care they need while 75% believe mental health support should be provided for incarcerated people. 

    November 08, 2022

    Intersectionality and Crisis Intervention

    • Suicide and self-harm, Teens and young adults, Trauma

    Officer for Crisis Text Line. “We are losing children of color at rates that are epidemic,” says Shairi Turner, M.D., M.P.H., an internist and pediatrician with a background in trauma.  She is Chief Health Officer for Crisis Text Line, a national non-profit providing 24/7 crisis counseling via text in both English and Spanish. 

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