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ifeminists May 24, 2006 Tony Zizza	The Trouble With TeenScreen While some of our young people may properly rebel against TeenScreen and other dangerous in-school mental health propoganda that helps Big Pharma, what about all the young people who come running home convinced they are -- mentally ill?
ifeminists August 11, 2004 Tony Zizza	The New Child Abuse: Mandatory Mental Health Screenings Politicians and pharmaceutical companies must believe there is something noble in the entire U.S. population being labeled with a mental disorder, and subsequently drugged.
ifeminists September 15, 2004 Wendy McElroy	Mandatory Mental Health Screening Threatens Privacy, Parental Rights The screenings may be used to force parents to put their children on psychiatric medication. Some parents who have refused to do so under current policies have been threatened or charged with "child abuse" for no other reason than their refusal.
ifeminists March 24, 2009 Tony Zizza	Mental health stats merit scrutiny I don't believe the mental health system in Tennessee, or in this country for that matter, faces a severe crisis.
ifeminists December 31, 2007 Tony Zizza	Massachusetts Takes Wrong Turn On Mental Health Screening New regulations in Massachusetts require doctors to screen for possible mental health problems in children.
ifeminists July 26, 2006 Tony Zizza	Are Affluent Teens The Latest Victims Of Mental Illness? Everything in America is viewed through the prism of alleged mental illness. Affluent teenagers are just today's advertising copy for the next psych drug and insurance billing code.
ifeminists October 5, 2008 Tony Zizza	The over-prescribing of America In writing "Stigma often hinders lifesaving discussion" for The Tennessean on Sept. 17, Dr. Dennis Morrison offers us more recycled bromides concerning suicide and the state of mental health.
ifeminists May 25, 2005 Tony Zizza	The American Psychiatric Association Is Actually The American Pill Association Psychiatry has become the legalized practice of prescribing pills, rather than the purposeful practice of assisting us with problems of the heart and soul.
ifeminists May 5, 2004 Tony Zizza	Depression Screenings Don't Belong In Our Schools A recent article in the Denver Post reports Denver Health's School-Based Health Centers are screening every student - for depression - who steps inside any one of the 11 school-based "clinics."
Managed Care February 2002 Heidi A. Sauder & Sheri Wallace	Push Is On for Improved Treatment of Women's Psychological Maladies Sure there are diagnostic and treatment challenges, but the money that can be saved for society might make this fertile ground for investment...
ifeminists October 4, 2006 Tony Zizza	Time To Boycott National Depression Screening Day In the U.S., whenever National Depression Screening Day rears its ugly head in the mainstream media every first week in October, we have the opportunity to review some serious doublethink that does not change much with each passing year.
ifeminists November 17, 2004 Byron Fraser	Review: Your Drug May Be Your Problem Excerpts from the book Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications by Peter Breggin and David Cohen delineating the adverse effects of these medications and how to stop taking them.
Salon.com May 25, 2000 J.B. Orenstein	Who will care for the crazy? She was 18 and had been found hanging by a noose. But the moment I saw her insurer, I knew she was one of the lucky ones.
Job Journal February 13, 2005 Rich Heintz	Positive Outlook for Mental Health Careers Passage of Prop 63 in California offers hope of a hiring boom.
Nurse Practitioner March 2012 Vanya Hamrin et al.	Evaluation and Management of Pediatric and Adolescent Depression The primary care setting is an appropriate venue for screening and identifying pediatric depression. Nurse practitioners can provide initial management or referral to psychiatric mental health professionals for evidence-based treatments.
Job Journal May 28, 2006 Rich Heintz	Do You Have a Head for Mental Health Work? Would working in the field of mental health make you happy? Here is a look at some professions.
American Family Physician November 1, 2003 Stovall & Domino	Approaching the Suicidal Patient In an attempt to help the family physician prevent suicide, this article reviews known risk factors and offers a strategy for assessing and addressing these factors in individual patients.
Reason May 2005 Jacob Sullum	Thomas Szasz Takes on His Critics In Szasz Under Fire: The Psychiatric Abolitionist Faces His Critics, edited by Jeffrey A. Schaler, Szasz sticks to his guns and scores many points, but his responses are not always completely satisfying.
Salon.com May 26, 2000 Dawn MacKeen	Shrinks under scrutiny Should shrinks probe the violent fantasies of patients? They often don't. And that failure can be tragic.
Managed Care April 2006 Tony Berberabe	Insurers Rely on Providers To Screen for Depression With access only to claims data, health plans strive to promote the importance of depression screening to their providers.
Reason July 2000 Jacob Sullum	Curing the Therapeutic State Thomas Szasz, author of "The Myth of Mental Illness," on the medicalization of American life.
ifeminists September 13, 2006 Tony Zizza	When Did Teenage Schizophrenia Become A Coupon? American children between the ages of 13-17 are now being marketed to parents clipping coupons to have their children participate in clinical research studies in which investigational "drugs for schizophrenia" are used.
Managed Care November 2003	States exempt psychiatric drugs in some Medicaid programs While states are implementing broad policies to control Medicaid costs, outpatient prescription psychiatric drugs are falling into newly created exemptions, according to a recent survey conducted by the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law.
HBS Working Knowledge April 6, 2015 Michael Blanding	Germanwings Lesson: Organizations Must Pay More Attention to Employee Mental Health The Germanwings tragedy catapulted the issues of mental health and corporate risk and responsibility into the world's headlines.
ifeminists December 5, 2008 Tony Zizza	Don't We All Have A Personality Disorder? On December 2nd, the Fox News website posted this from the AP: "1 in 5 Young Adults Has Personality Disorder, Study Finds." Isn't this lovely?
American Family Physician August 15, 2002	Medicines for Mental Health During Pregnancy What mental problems may occur during pregnancy?... Can pregnancy cause these mental problems? Does it make them worse?... Are mental health medicines safe to use during pregnancy?... What should I do if I have a history of a mental disorder and want to get pregnant?... etc.
ifeminists April 29, 2004 Tony Zizza	Stop Selling Depression and Drugs To Men Author questions how it can be wrong to profile terrorists, but okay to profile a particular gender as a profitable market for medications and subjective mental health labels?
ifeminists June 21, 2006 Tony Zizza	Tom Cruise Was - Right! In American, when even choosing to be a jerk in your automobile is now viewed as suffering from a mental disorder that requires therapy and drugs, psychiatry is 100% -- pseudoscience.
ifeminists July 8, 2003 Todd Andrew Barnett	Christine Wilhelm: "Mentally Ill" Victim or Murderer? Christine Wilhelm, the mother who stands accused of murdering her four-year old son Luke by drowning him in a bathtub in their home near Vermont on April 16th, 2002, has become the latest poster girl of the mental health field establishment.
Nursing Management March 2010 Becker & Schmidtke	All along the watchtower: Suicide risk screening, a pilot study Patients will continue to die if healthcare organizations don't take action and appropriately assess patients at risk for suicide in general hospitals.
American Family Physician October 1, 2002	Mental Health: Keeping Your Emotional Health What is good emotional health?... What about anger?... What can I do to avoid problems?... Tips on dealing with your emotions... How does stress affect my emotions?... Can emotional problems be treated?... etc.
ifeminists July 15, 2003 Todd Andrew Barnett	The Conviction of Christine Wilhelm The verdict is in: Christine Wilhelm, the mother who confessed to killing her four-year-old son Luke and attempted murder of her five-year-old son Peter in a bathtub in their home, has been found guilty of second degree murder.
ifeminists February 16, 2005 Byron Fraser	Marginalized No Longer! In Broken Brains or Wounded Hearts--What Causes Mental Illness, Ty C. Colbert elucidates his very innovative concept of a forced choice: the emotional pain model does not lay the blame on the individual, but eventually opens the door for him to take charge of his own life and set of choices.
Managed Care May 2002 Michael S. Victoroff	Psychologist Prescribing: Not Such a Crazy Idea New Mexico has just granted medication-prescribing authority to certain certified Ph.D psychologists -- a development with broad potential implications for the field of mental health. It's a bold precedent
Reason October 2005 Maia Szalavitz	In Defense of Happy Pills While psychotherapy validated by research has its place, there is no convincing reason why it should be considered inherently superior to drugs. Pleasure can be just as important for emotional recovery and growth as pain, if not more so.
Reason January 2003 Jacob Sullum	Head Games What are the rules for defining mental illness?
Job Journal November 18, 2007 Julia Hollister	Mental Health Staffing Shortages a Real Headache Trained professionals in the mental health field are in short supply.
ifeminists October 22, 2002 Tresa McBee	Pass the Prozac Sparring spouses seek counseling, where they are diagnosed with "relational disorder," meaning the relationship is causing problems, not the people. Relational disorder is not a recognized mental illness. Yet. If two psychiatrists convince enough people, RD could be added to the DSM.
American Family Physician April 1, 2003 David J. Mersy	Recognition of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Ten percent of the population abuses drugs or alcohol, and 20 percent of patients seen by family physicians have substance-abuse problems, excluding tobacco use. These patients can be identified by relying on regular screening or a high index of suspicion based on "red flags."
Reason April 2004 Joli Jensen	Emotional Choices What story you choose to believe about antidepressants reveals a deeper truth about who you are.
Managed Care July 2005	Two Major Studies Focus On Mental Health Two major studies on mental health say that while strides have been made in awareness of the problem and the willingness of patients to seek help, much more needs to be done.
ifeminists July 14, 2004 Tony Zizza	The Problem With Senator Edward M. Kennedy Surely, the nation's mental health is in danger when someone like the Massachusetts senator and all of his kind are against ensuring our children's health and safety by supporting a simply stated anti-coercion bill.
Salon.com March 13, 2002 Janelle Brown	Swift injustice Anger and frustration dominate reactions to the quick guilty verdict in the murder trial of Andrea Yates...
American Family Physician August 15, 2005 Carrie Morantz	Newsletter Latest Senate EHR Bill Combines and Replaces Previous Proposals... Agencies Collaborate to Help Patients Recover from Mental Illness... Study: Most Americans Do Not Think Obesity Risks Are Overestimated... etc.
American Family Physician March 15, 2007 Freedy & Simpson	Disaster-Related Physical and Mental Health: A Role for the Family Physician Family physicians should be prepared to work with other health care professionals in the community to share the collective load in meeting post-disaster health needs; such partnerships should be established well in advance of a disaster.
AskMen.com Dave Golokhov	Mental Health And Women A new report shows that one in four American women use prescription medication to combat mental disorders, and the numbers are on the rise.
Entrepreneur April 2008 Mark Henricks	The Moody Blues Depressed workers bring the whole company down, so get them the help they need.
Managed Care October 2003	Mental Health Coverage Woes Not All in Mind The authors of a new study find that although coverage for mental healt is now widespread among those with insurance, parity laws have not really put access to mental health services on a par with access to other services, thanks to continued limits on outpatient and inpatient visits.
AskMen.com Dave Golokhov	Information Overload Dr. Ben Searle, senior lecturer of psychology at Macquarie University, says that this overburden of data is leading to an increasing number of mental illnesses in the workplace.
AskMen.com Jacob Franek	Mental Health For Men Greater understanding of new and emerging mental illnesses for men is important, and hopefully the following will help to raise your awareness.