Serious Mental Illness and Homicide

People with serious mental illness (SMI) are more likely than the general population to experience homelessness and be victimized by others, become involved with the criminal legal system, experience health […]

In the United States, Black people with SMI have been found to be more likely to receive coercive mental health treatments including involuntary hospitalizations, the use of physical restraints, the […]

People diagnosed with severe mental illnesses like schizophrenia are more likely than the general population to be victims of crime. Victimization of people with SMI often takes the form of […]

When someone with severe mental illness refuses to accept treatment and insists that there is nothing wrong with them, it can be frustrating to caregivers and treatment providers who just […]

The average duration of untreated psychosis is 74 weeks in the U.S. This long period of untreated psychosis has many negative effects, including the following: Treatment response worsens Insight is […]

Assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) is a tool in the toolbox for civil courts and mental health systems to work collaboratively to help individuals with serious mental illness caught in a […]

Serious mental illness has become so prevalent in the US corrections system that jails and prisons are now commonly called “the new asylums.” In point of fact, the Los Angeles […]

The Centers for Disease Control reported in 2016 that suicide rates rose significantly from 2009 to 2014 and that the rise in suicide rates accelerated beginning in 2006. In 2014, […]

The United States is in the midst of a psychiatric bed shortage that worsens every year. By early 2016, the practice of closing state mental hospitals, often called “deinstitutionalization,” had […]