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Back to school: Nurse seeks training to help bridge mental health care gap in rural NC

NC Health News

Statewide provider shortage To help address the nations shortage of mental health providers, the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has cited a need for more than half a million additional psychiatric mental health nurses to reach merely adequate access to mental health and substance use disorder care.

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Whitmer signs legislation allowing Michigan pharmacists to prescribe birth control

The Hill

Whitmer signed a bundle of other bills aimed at improving maternal health and increasing reproductive health care access in the state. Those bills include a piece of legislation making it easier to donate breast milk and another expanding maternal mental health services to postpartum women.

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New funding aims to expand mental health services in New Jersey schools

News Medical Health Sciences

million grant to increase the number and diversity of highly trained school counselors to help fill the gap in mental health services in New Jersey high-need school districts. Rutgers University's Graduate School of Education (GSE) has received a $3.3

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Transforming women’s mental health services through co-research with survivors of intimate partner violence

Nature Mental Health

Nature Mental Health, Published online: 15 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s44220-024-00379-y Engaging survivors of intimate partner violence in research brings valuable perspectives that can drive meaningful improvements in mental health services.

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RFK Jr. targets childhood psychiatric drugs; doctors push back

The Hill

As for the claim that U.S. children are being overmedicated, physicians and psychiatric experts who spoke with The Hill said they are more concerned that many children who could benefit from SSRIs or other such medications lack access to these drugs.

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Clinical psychology training in India needs central body, streamlining to avoid dilution of professional standards: study

The Hindu

The existence of multiple training paths for the same licensure category allows less rigorous routes to licensure, undermining the quality of training and professionalism in the field, ultimately affecting mental health services, one of the authors of the study said

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Mental Health Crisis in Miscarriage–an Unrepresented Patient Population

The Health Care Blog

Mental health services are not easily obtainable, there is an increasing number of clients seeking providers that are already treating a greater-than-maximum capacity of patients. My primary care provider won’t start me on medication because I may want to try to become pregnant again. I can’t make any appointments.