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MENTAL HEALTH

Center for Science in Society

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.

• Editorial | Push the pendulum: Commitment laws need loosening so the seriously mentally ill can be treated, From the Philadelphia Inquirer Jan. 26, 2003
• Editorial | A pact not made: More community programs such as PACT can help seriously mentally ill, From the Philadelphia Inquirer Jan. 27, 2003
• The Criminal Justice / Mental Health Consensus Project two-year effort to prepare specific recommendations that local, state, and federal policymakers and criminal justice and mental health professionals, can use to improve the criminal justice system's response to people with mental illness.
• After deaths, a plea for change, from the Philadelphia Inquirer, January 7, 2003
• Full Disclosure, asks what should patients know about their therapists?, From the New York Times, January 26, 2003
• One-Parent Children Are Found at Risk, From the New York Times, January 24, 2003
• Study Finds Jump in Children Taking Psychiatric Drug, From the New York Times, January 14, 2003
• Mental Health: Gloom, When the Sunshine Fades, from the New York Times December 31, 2002
• Full Disclosure, asks what should patients know about their therapists?, From the New York Times, January 26, 2003
• One-Parent Children Are Found at Risk, From the New York Times, January 24, 2003
• Study Finds Jump in Children Taking Psychiatric Drug, From the New York Times, January 14, 2003
• The Test : As time runs out for Carol Leahy, her husband and son struggle to survive the devastation of Alzheimer's, From the Washington Post January 12, 2003
• Even in the Age of Prozac, Some Prefer the Couch, from the New York Times, January 28, 2003
• The Psychotic Bank Robber: A Schizophrenic Teen Takes Desperate Measures. His Parents Want Help. The Law Wants Prison, from the Washington Post, January 26, 2003

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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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