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Serendip's mental health resource lists are intended to provide access to web materials which we believe are of continuing usefulness in discussions of mental health issues. This "News" section is aimed at helping people be aware of possible "growing points" relevant to mental health discussions, news reports which offer what may become important new perspectives on mental health, relating either to mental health itself or to related social, political, and economic phenomena that impact on it.

• When Politics is Personal, those in the forefront of the fight for mental health parity, from the New York Times Sunday Magazine, September, 15, 2002 Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico talks about his daughter's stuggle with schizophrenia.
• Mental health system criticized, from the Philadelphia Inquirer, September 17, 2002 A federal report blames an emphasis on medicating patients while an array of their needs go unmet.
• Achieving Balance in 9/11 Media Coverage, from Psychiatric Times, September 2002
• To Reform Welfare, Treat Drug Abuse, from the Washington Post, September 18, 2002
• Medicaid Suggests Splitting Zoloft, from the Washington Post, September 21, 2002
After Trauma: A Therapist's Role (re:9/11), from the New York Times, September 13, 2002 Letters to the Editor, Re "Mental Health: The Profession Tests Its Limits" (front page, Sept. 11):
• Cuts end free mental help for many poor, from the Boston Globe, September 9, 2002 Decades old services to poor mentally ill people quietly disappeared this summer as part of a $13.8 million cut to the Department of Mental Health budget.
• Depressive Disorders in Adolescents: Challenges in Diagnosis, from Psychiatric Times, September 2002 Adolescence is a key period when many mental health disorders--including depression, dysthymia and other comorbid conditions--are often recognized
• Special wards lend aid to mentally-ill gays, from the Philadelphia Inquirer, September 15, 2002 12-bed unit for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender patients hailed by consumers.
• Altered Lives, Changing Attitudes, from The Washington Post, September 8, 2002. In Poll, Most Americans Say 9/11 Affected Them Permanently
  "Everything's changed" became the American mantra immediately after Sept. 11
• The Best Way to Cope? Even Experts Aren't Sure, from the New York Times, September 4, 2002.
  Mental health experts say the best strategy for many Americans may be to plan exactly what they will do and where they will be on September 11th.
• 9/11 Trauma: Studies Find Resilience, Worry, from The Washington Post, September 7, 2002.
  Studies illuminate the impacts of trauma on a culture saturated with disturbing news footage.
• Early Mental Health Intervention Reduces Mass Violence Trauma, NIH Newrelease, September 6, 2002.
  Early psychological intervention guided by qualified mental health caregivers can reduce the harmful psychological and emotional effects of exposure to mass violence in survivors, according to a national conference report.

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These resource lists are being maintained by Debbie Plotnick, working with Paul Grobstein, Department of Biology, and James Martin, School of Social Work and Social Research, at Bryn Mawr College. Suggestions for additions to the list are welcome, as are more general thoughts about how to most effectively make available information, and promote conversation, about issues of mental health. Contact dplotnic@brynmawr.edu - pgrobste@brynmawr.edu - jmartin@brynmawr.edu.


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