After a disaster, population mental health generally improves, but an increase in mental health problems often follows, potentially peaking years later, according to a systematic review and ...

Crawling out from a home in ruins following a disaster causes trauma that can affect a person's mental health in the short and long term. Kyle Schott, a licensed counselor and chairman of the Cape ...

Here’s how Duke experts are thinking about the less visible impact of natural disaster on us: our health, both mind and body. Disaster 101: This is part of a series that looks at how communities ...

TeamHealth, a physician-led practice, and Array Behavioral Care, a virtual psychiatry and therapy practice, have partnered in an effort to improve emergency mental health care, the companies shared ...

Today marks one week since the big fires in Los Angeles started. The disaster is taking a toll on peoples' mental health, but LA is working to help with their immediate- and long-term needs. What's ...

The Blair County Department of Social Services is planning to rejuvenate its Emergency Behavioral Health Team, which has been mostly inactive since the start of the pandemic. Consisting of volunteers, ...

Children who go to emergency departments in a mental health crisis and need to be hospitalized often end up stuck there for days, a new study finds. That happens in roughly one in ten of all mental ...