• Hospital looks to acute-care program to replace teen behavioral unit Nov 26, 2008
Hospital looks to acute-care program to replace teen behavioral unit By Nate PoppinoTimes-News writer Local health care providers will work through a subcommittee of a regional Idaho Department of Health and Welfare board to address shortages in teen mental health care, they decided Tuesday. A year and a half after St. Luke's Canyon View Behavioral Health Services closed its teen inpatient program, officials with the hospital, Twin Falls County and Health and Welfare met to figure out how to... (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Health Highlights: May 10, 2008 May 11, 2008
Marijuana Linked to Teen Mental Health Problems. Teens who've reported being depressed at some point in the past year are more than twice as likely (25 percent) to have used marijuana than those who weren't depressed (12 percent), according to a White House Office of National Drug Control Policy report to be released Friday. (Washington Post)
Boost For Teen Mental Health Nov 16, 2007
Search our nursing news (enter keywords). Some 31 million is to be pumped into childrens psychiatric facilities to help get children off adult wards, it was announced yesterday. (StaffNurse.com)
Teen mental health crisis ahead Oct 11, 2007
Welcome to The Courier-Mail. October 11, 2007 12:30pm. (Courier Mail)
New Tool To Shed Light On, Improve Teen Mental Health Services May 17, 2007
Can you imagine an archer trying to improve her accuracy by practicing blindfolded, never seeing how close she was to hitting her target, never getting any information to help correct her aim" Until now, doctors and clinicians treating teens with mental health concerns were in the same position as that blindfolded archer, providing services week after week with no objective and systematic feedback about the effects of their treatment. A new tool developed by Vanderbilt Peabody College of... (Science Daily)
