The NNED keeps you in the know on what’s happening in behavioral health equity in the U.S. and around the world. Our collection of articles from multiple sources cover important headlines, recent findings, proposal calls, and more.
Thousands of Afghans Suffer From PTSD — Advocates Are Trying to Find Culturally Competent Ways to Help
12/22/23
Chinar Sedeqi, his wife and his three children were among the around 80,000 Afghans who braved gunfire and explosions to get to the Kabul airport in August of 2021 and get out of a country that was no longer safe for them. “When the government of Afgha …
Maui Wildfires Lead To Dire Mental Health Crisis in Lahaina
12/15/23
More than two months after a ferocious wildfire burned his West Maui community to the ground, killing at least 97 people, survivors say the trauma is as real now as the day it sent hundreds of people fleeing for their lives as flames chewed through the …
Psychedelics Poised for the Therapeutic Mainstream
12/13/23
Jennifer Mitchell, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, witnessed a lot of recreational drug use growing up in the city in the 1970s and later as a college student in Oregon. At the time, drugs such as mushrooms, LSD and mar …
The Intersections of Racism and Mental Health for Asian American Families
12/11/23
An Innovative Intervention to Help Asian American Families Cope with Racism and Related Mental Health Difficulties is funded by a Grand Challenges Individual Project Grant from the University of Maryland. This eight-session, culturally sensitive interv …
Wearable Biosensor Predicts Aggression Among Inpatients with Autism
12/08/23
Physiological changes recorded by a wearable biosensor and analyzed through a machine-learning approach can help predict aggressive behavior before it occurs in young psychiatric facility patients with autism, new research shows. The study published in …
Depression in LGBTQ Youth Linked With Lack of Parental Support, Controlling Behavior
12/06/23
Young people who identify as LGBTQ are less likely to suffer symptoms of depression when they have general support from their parents, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have found. But in cases where young LGBTQ people had not told their …
Disparities in Psychotic Disorder Diagnoses and Other Negative Health Outcomes
12/04/23
Psychotic disorders are serious illnesses that disrupt how a person thinks, feels, and perceives the world. People with these disorders, which include schizophrenia and other disorders with psychotic symptoms, have better outcomes if they receive early …
LGBTQ Teens Often Struggle to Find Mental Health Care Tailored to Them
12/01/23
The LGBTQ community is “certainly in a state of crisis, particularly among youth,” Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., the first openly gay Afro Latino in Congress, told NBC News in an email. “Asking for help is a sign of strength, but we need to make sure th …
Partner of the Month – December 2023
12/01/23
In order to highlight pockets of excellence across the country, the NNED selects a partner organization to highlight once a month. Philio Inc DBA New Concepts has been selected as the Partner of the Month for December. Philio Inc DBA New Concepts (New …
Practitioners Speak on Mental Health Care For Asian American Pacific Islanders
11/29/23
Mental health practitioners vocalized the importance of culturally informed care at the Asian American Pacific Islander mental health panel on November 3 at UNC Asheville. “One of the big things I think people should take away from this is the Asian Am …