Becoming an Adult During the Pandemic: Trauma and Resilience

• By: Michael B. Friedman, LMSW Public Policy Advocate
• July 2nd, 2021
• COVID-19, relationships, resilience, Summer 2021 Issue, trauma, young adults
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Studies tracking psychological distress during the pandemic show that young adults are more likely to be struggling emotionally than are older adults. No wonder. Their lives have been disrupted just at a time in life when they are making the transition from the common turmoil of adolescence to the...

Mental Health Advocacy With and Without Advanced Technology

• By: Michael B. Friedman, LMSW Public Policy Advocate
• March 31st, 2021
• advocacy, email, Spring 2021 Issue, technology
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I just switched from E-mail to Microsoft Word to write this article about mental health and technology. I left 250 E-mails unanswered to make the move. Oy vey! I feel like I’m guilty of E-mail neglect. Who will I offend today by not responding to them? It wasn’t always like this. 45...

Social Determinants of Behavioral Health: Time to Augment Advocacy Strategy?

• By: Michael B. Friedman, LMSW Public Policy Advocate
• January 1st, 2021
• advocacy, behavioral health, poverty, social change, social determinants of health, winter 2021 issue
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The hope implicit in the concept of social determinants is that broad changes in the social, economic, and political structures of our communities, nations, and world can result in improved behavioral health of large populations, such as regions, age-groups, social classes, genders, disabilities,...

In the Shadow of the Pandemic: The Suicide Crisis in America

• By: Paul S. Nestadt, MD Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Michael B. Friedman, LMSW Public Policy Advocate
• October 1st, 2020
• childhood trauma, COVID-19, dementia, discrimination, fall 2020 issue, family history, grief, homelessness, mental illness, pain, physical illness, social isolation, substance use disorder, suicide, suicide attempts, suicide prevention, violence
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The pandemic, overdue confrontations of racism, and fears about the outcome of the 2020 election have diminished America’s alarm about rising drug overdose and suicide rates. But these epidemics continue, albeit in the shadow of COVID-19. This fall 2020 issue of Behavioral Health News is...

Behavioral Health During and After the Pandemic

• By: Michael B. Friedman, LMSW Public Policy Advocate
• May 19th, 2020
• advocacy, behavioral health, COVID-19, pandemic, social determinants of health, summer 2020 issue, tele-mental health
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The response of the behavioral health system to the COVID pandemic has been rapid and remarkable. But it is, of course, imperfect and incomplete. What are the challenges still to be met? And what will happen after the pandemic, hopefully, ends and we move on to a new normal? What Has Been Done...