mental health
Kaiser mental health therapists strike to uphold patient care
March 24, 2026The one-day unfair labor practices strike aimed at upholding and strengthening patient care safeguards and meeting new challenges posed by technology.
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‘Suicide is one option,’ seniors on Social Security told
February 18, 2026Staffers on phones trained to say that to some callers
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Mental health programs could bear the brunt of $600M federal cuts to Texas schools
July 14, 2025Federal cuts and a lack of dedicated mental health funding from the state could erode programs to address chronic absenteeism, crises and more.
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Northern Calif. mental health therapists rally in support of Southern Calif. colleagues
November 26, 2024The prescription is solidarity.
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A true American horror story: ‘Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum’
October 31, 2024The new book details how, before the turn toward mass incarceration in the 1970s, Black people in disproportionate numbers were institutionalized in mental hospitals, where they were assigned to forced labor regimes and other kinds of...
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