Parents with children suffering from mental illness and mental health professionals alike look forward to a day when those who are mentally ill are regarded and treated as just that – ill. A new study* reported in the American Journal of Psychiatry finds that we still have a long way to go. According to the [...]

According to Columbia University’s Lisa Blitz, “Mentally ill young adults 18-25 years old are an important, vulnerable and little understood minority in the community of mental health. These individuals hover between the last developmental stages of adolescence and the beginnings of full adulthood, and they struggle to get their needs met in a system not [...]