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The Kitchen Problem No One Talks About in Behavioral Health: How Residential Treatment Programs Are Rethinking Food Service and What It Means for the People in Their Care
Someone enters residential treatment. They have made one of the hardest decisions of their life. They give up their phone, their schedule, their routine. For the next 28 to 90 days, almost every aspect of their day is structured for them. When they wake up. When they go to therapy. When they...
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We Don’t Need More Youth Mental Health Crisis Narratives – We Need to Create Affirming Spaces for Youth to Talk About Their Bodies
These are not kids in crisis. This observation grew increasingly certain as the conversation lingered, and so did the feeling that the conversation would remain painfully unfinished. After we wrapped up our workshop titled Resisting (dis)order and Reclaiming Neuroqueer Body Trust, some of the...
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Does Mental Health Matter in the Workplace?
The question of whether physical or emotional health is more important often generates mixed responses. In reality, the two are deeply interconnected and each influences the other in meaningful ways. Despite this, mental health has historically been surrounded by stigma, making it easier for...
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Parenting Through ADHD: What I Learned as a Clinician and a Mother
When I first noticed something was different about my son, I did not immediately think it was ADHD. That may sound surprising coming from someone with a clinical background in behavioral health, but the reality is that ADHD looks different in every child, especially when considering the stereotypes...
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Administrative Overload: The Mental Health Toll on Your Staff and Your Business
The right workforce infrastructure makes for a healthier environment for everyone involved. Burnout is one of the catalysts more popularly associated with physicians, but administrative burnout is quietly destabilizing healthcare. More than three-quarters (76.4%) of national healthcare leaders...
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The Rise of AI Companions and What it Means for Youth Mental Health
More and more young people are turning to AI for something we didn’t really anticipate a few years ago. Not just homework help. Not just curiosity. They’re using it to talk through problems, to vent, to ask questions they’re not ready or embarrassed to ask someone else. In some cases,...
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Supporting Peer Mentoring as a Bridge to Campus Belonging
Across colleges and universities, students are experiencing increasing mental health challenges while simultaneously navigating the social, academic, and developmental demands of campus life. For many students, the transition to college represents their first time living independently, managing...
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From Awareness to Action: How SAFE Workplace Mental Health Training Helps Workplaces Recognize, Respond, and Connect
Workplace mental health challenges are often visible long before they are addressed. Changes in mood, attendance, communication, focus, or behavior may signal that an employee is struggling, yet many workplaces lack a clear and practical way to respond. Supervisors and coworkers are not trained...
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Financial Anxiety is Becoming a Public Health Issue
Economic stress has long been framed as a personal budgeting challenge, or a macroeconomic concern measured in inflation rates, interest hikes, and employment numbers. But for millions of Americans, financial pressure is no longer an abstract concept, it is a daily psychological burden that is...
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Supporting Supervisors and Mid-Level Leaders in Behavioral Health Organizations
More than five years after the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the nation, the behavioral health field continues to undergo profound and lasting shifts. Early in the pandemic, the World Health Organization (2022) reported a global 25 percent increase in anxiety and depressive disorders, a surge that...
