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NAMI California Tests Advertising in 5 Languages on BART
NAMI California has begun a test advertising campaign on the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system in 5 languages (English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean and Tagalog) to raise the profile of NAMI California, our affiliates and our website. Interior train signs and station signs like those shown below will be displayed in selected trains and stations throughout June.... |  |
Minorities Face Barriers For Mental Health Care
Follow-up to Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health
Minorities in America face severe economic, cultural, linguistic and physical barriers for treatment of mental illness, difficulties that prevent thousands from being properly treated.... | |
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Mental Health Patients' Rights
Mental health patients have the same legal rights guaranteed to everyone by the Constitution and laws of the United States and California. Read this article to find out about all YOUR rights.... | |
Depression On The Rise Among Hispanic Women
Depression and other mental troubles are on the rise among Latin American women immigrants to the United States, as they battle economic woes and try to bridge the cultural gap, experts say.... | |
Governor Dumps Plan To Build Prison Hospitals
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger disowned a tentative agreement Thursday to build prison hospitals to settle lawsuits over shoddy health care for inmates, saying the state won't borrow $1.9 billion for the effort while it's slashing other services.... | |
Looking Closer At Asian Teens
Family ties vary with different cultures, with some emphasizing obligation and strong bonds among parents, siblings and extended family members.... | |
At The Mercy Of Her Mind
It's been a rough week. A few days ago, at UCLA's Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital, 6-year-old Jani toppled a food cart and was confined to her room. She slammed her head against the floor, opening a bloody cut that sent her into hysterics. Later, she kicked the hospital therapy dog.... | |
War Games
The military is turning to the virtual world to treat traumatized veterans of the Iraq war, giving troops a high-tech way to confront and overcome mental war wounds.... | |
Novelist Kaye Gibbons Faces Yet Another Hurdle
On a spring day in 2006, as the sun set on the Duke University campus, novelist Kaye Gibbons strode across the lawn. She had just finished speaking at the Festival of the Book, and two of her three daughters trailed behind her.... | |
Hope and Worry
Increasingly powerful antipsychotic drugs available on the market, and growing evidence that starting these medications early can help children with conditions like bipolar disorder, is putting doctors under more pressure than ever to diagnose and treat young people with mental illnesses.... | |
Parolees Face Dearth Of Mental Health Services
California parolees have a higher-than-average need for drug treatment, health care and mental health services, but tend to return to communities where such services are severely strained, according to a think-tank report.... | |
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