The agency tasked with leading the fight to ease the country’s mental health and addiction emergencies is going through an existential crisis. About 100 of its 900 workers have been fired and those ...

The psychologist and founder of Duty to Warn says the aging Trump has dementia and is severely mentally ill.

But even when Taser usage doesn’t end in a fatality, it can still have long-term consequences. Being shocked by a Taser can be painful and terrifying for anyone, but it is especially traumatic and ...

‘My son needed something I couldn’t give.’ Surviving parents seek grief support for kids This is the second part of Forgotten Children, a series on the tragic and underreported problem of childhood ...

Parental death has been rising in the U.S. due to COVID-19, the overdose epidemic and gun violence. In this first part of Forgotten Children, we look at efforts to help children grieving from the loss ...

This is the story of Gene Ampon, a gay California teen who was arrested in the 1960s and sent to a psychiatric hospital to be "cured" of homosexuality -- and the movement to pride and resilience that ...

An investigation by The Imprint reveals overmedication and spotty enforcement of federal requirements that child welfare agencies monitor psychiatric prescriptions for foster youth.

COVID was not an equal-opportunity destroyer. American Indian and Alaska Native children were orphaned at three times the rate of white children, and Black children at double the rate. Without support ...

Inadequate training on mental health crises, poor working conditions and a crazy quilt of dispatch codes from city to city puts both dispatchers and callers in crisis at risk.

In the course of my reporting on the boom in grief therapy, I looked into six grief recovery certifications and/or counseling courses. This review zeroes in on four – the Global Grief Institute, PESI, ...

Editor’s note: This story contains graphic descriptions and images of child abuse. I first became acquainted with school corporal punishment my first week at Fitzhugh Lee Elementary in Smyrna, Georgia ...

Critics fear that the Trump administration's pro-business, anti-regulation stance may hinder mental health treatment coverage.