The Latest Breaking News from Mental Health

WASHINGTON — The new federal law passed in response to a series of mass shootings includes provisions to better incorporate juvenile records into the federal background check system, but states vary greatly in the way they approach access to guns and the background checks themselves.

LOS ANGELES — The bargain buyers drifted out of a popular Little Saigon fruit shop with tote bags full of pale brown longan and hairy red rambutan, barely glancing at the dirt-smeared face of Duc Tran.

Erik Ewers, co-director of the new Ken Burns documentary “Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness,” had an epiphany while he was filming.

Studies show that almost a quarter of conflict-affected individuals develop some form of mental health disorder: In Ukraine, that puts 1.5 million children at risk, with long-term effects costing billions of dollars.

CHICAGO — A week after becoming the Republican Party nominee for governor, state Sen. Darren Bailey sought Thursday to pivot from his bungled response to the mass shooting in Highland Park by declaring more gun control laws weren’t necessary, saying state funds needed to be better directed for mental health…

More than 400 clients and 61 staff members face an uncertain future when a Gippsland mental health support service closes its doors for the final time today.

One way to help is by donating, whether to official community funds or verified fundraisers set up by families of those hurt or killed. Just be wary of scams, a city official warns.

Dr. Rochelle Hines and Dr. Dustin Hines are career-brain researchers and a husband-wife team who are working to advance the development of mental health psychedelic therapeutics from their University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) lab in a new project called Tessellate. 

A young rural Southlander with rodeo in his blood recounts a moving comeback tale from family loss and mental breakdown.

The Court agrees with my argument that crime victims can become "limited-purpose parties" in criminal proceedings to protect their interests, such as an interest in the confidentiality of mental health counseling records.

DALLAS — A new Dallas police program called the “officer wellness initiative” seeks to confront trauma officers experience on the job and improve overall mental health — which officers say is long overdue.