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Participants were also asked if they had ever \"been made or pressured into having some type of unwanted sexual contact.\" The women were not asked when those events occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-two percent reported a history of sexual assault, and 19 percent said they'd experienced workplace sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the sample size was small, the results are statistically significant. Women who had experienced sexual assault had on average an almost threefold increased risk of developing depressive symptoms, compared to women who hadn't. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-two percent reported a history of sexual assault, and 19 percent said they'd experienced workplace sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the sample size was small, the results are statistically significant. Women who had experienced sexual assault had on average an almost threefold increased risk of developing depressive symptoms, compared to women who hadn't. They also had a greater incidence of clinically significant anxiety.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 1 in 4 women who had been sexually assaulted met criteria for depression, while approximately 1 in 10 who had not were depressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who experienced sexual harassment at work had a twofold increased risk compared to women who hadn't of developing high blood pressure. Poor sleep was more common, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These [traumatic experiences] are clearly critical things that happen to people early on, that have these really long-lasting effects,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://directory.sph.umn.edu/bio/sph-a-z/susan-mason\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Susan Mason\u003c/a>, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Minnesota who studies the effects of trauma. \"These really shape people's life trajectories.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mason was not involved in this study, but says the findings dovetail with other research on the relationship between trauma and physical or mental health later in life. Intimate partner violence, for example, has been associated with the development of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23248189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">diabetes\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22717307\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">high blood pressure\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday's study is particularly noteworthy, Mason says, because it includes clinical data — in-office blood pressure checks, for example, and validated diagnostic tools for depression and anxiety — rather than depending exclusively on self-reported diagnoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinicians don't have the ability to corroborate women's memories of sexual assault or harassment, however. Thurston points to literature on the way traumatic memories are processed that demonstrates that discrete events like a sexual assault often remain vivid in a way other memories don't. This is why, she says, she trusts the study participants who say they've been through these experiences.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the patient thinks it's important, it's important,\" says Dr. Valerie Gilchrist, chair of the department of family medicine at the University of Wisconsin who has written about screening for sexual violence in primary care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recommends that clinicians ask patients if they've experienced sexual assault, particularly patients who are experiencing significant stress or have difficulty with pelvic exams. Authors note that sexual assault and harassment seemed to be less common in this group of women than in national estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prevalence in their cohort was significantly lower than a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss6308a1.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2014 estimate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a>, which found that 19 percent of American women had been raped, and almost 44 percent had experienced another form of sexual violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurston thinks this is because the study excluded a fair number of women for reasons related to its original intent of researching menopause and cardiovascular disease. Women taking medications for depression were not included, for example, as well as those with serious medical problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sexual assault and sexual abuse are much more common than people think,\" Thurston says. These are \"key toxic stressors for women.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While researchers weren't surprised that sexual assault and harassment seemed to be related to the development of mood disorders and poor sleep, they were impressed by the strength of the association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These should be urgent public health priorities,\" Mason says. \"How do we address the fundamental ways that our social structure affects health?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mara Gordon is a family physician in Washington, D.C., and a health and media fellow at NPR and Georgetown University School of Medicine.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Sexual+Assault+And+Harassment+May+Have+Lasting+Health+Repercussions+For+Women&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp class=\"danger-zone\">In the world of digital health, Silicon Valley-based \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2017/08/07/mindstrong-insel-mental-illness/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mindstrong\u003c/a> stands out. It has a star-studded team and tens of millions in venture capital funding, including from Jeff Bezos’ VC firm.[contextly_sidebar id=\"KMLJnak6yPOdRS3TfVoiDTc6a7Cm51Xf\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"danger-zone\">It also has a captivating idea: that its app, based on cognitive functioning research, can help detect troubling mental health patterns by collecting data on a person’s smartphone usage — how quickly they type or scroll, for instance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"danger-zone\">The promise of that technology has helped Mindstrong build incredible momentum since it launched last year; already more than a dozen counties in California have agreed to deploy the company’s app to patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"\">Does the app live up to its promise? There’s no way to tell. Almost no one outside the company has any idea whether it works. Most of the company’s key promises or claims aren’t yet backed up by published, peer-reviewed data — leading some experts to wonder if the technology is ready for the real world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"\">“I wouldn’t waste all that time and money in the wild until they get sure that some of those things are as specific as they hope they are,” said Rosalind Picard, a researcher at MIT Media Lab who is familiar with Mindstrong’s work and tries to use data from smartphones and wearables to detect a person’s mood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as one of the company’s executives, Dr. Tom Insel, acknowledged to STAT that the app isn’t perfect, the company’s CEO emphasized that Mindstrong could provide unprecedented insight into conditions like depression.[contextly_sidebar id=\"Kw9tNYwAAP3TxDDlzs24FDdim0qufSVP\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mindstrong is not alone in pushing the frontiers of smartphone-based digital health. Many companies use so-called digital phenotyping, collecting scientific data on a person’s digital life, to gain insights into his or her physical or mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s app collects information about how people are typing and runs it through a machine learning algorithm to determine which data can predict their emotional state. Mindstrong has already used it in controlled clinical settings and trials — including one run by a company developing new antidepressants and another done in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2018/09/24/ketamine-clinics-severe-depression-treatment/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ketamine clinic\u003c/a>. The app is available in Apple’s app store, but requires a participant code to access it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve done the validation work against the gold-standard clinical tests for depression, for anxiety, for cognitive decline, whether it’s memory or executive function,” said Dr. Paul Dagum, the company’s founder. “We’re confident, we’re already seeing some really exciting results.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last year, Mindstrong’s footprint and reach have already grown exponentially. The Palo Alto-based company’s workforce has doubled to 42 employees and it made \u003ca href=\"https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazine/magazine_article/philanthropic-impact-digital-phenotyping/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a sizable gift\u003c/a> to Harvard’s school of public health. In February, it launched a partnership with Takeda to develop new biomarkers that will be able to aid the pharmaceutical giant’s clinical trials for depression treatments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea is to use that data to establish a “normal” pattern — so it can be compared against someone’s typing habits on any given day. If the habits look off, slower or more agitated than normal, the app can alert a health care provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abnormal patterns, Mindstrong says, might show up if a person is more depressed or anxious, or if just about anything else about their mental health changes. When asked which disorders Mindstrong might be able to detect, Dagum replied, “all of them.” (Dagum, a data scientist and physician, founded the company in 2017 with Rick Klausner, the founder and director of CAR-T pioneer Juno Therapeutics and \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2018/06/02/grail-cancer-blood-test-asco/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grail\u003c/a>, a liquid biopsy company.)[contextly_sidebar id=\"XHhLlvPBCoPTlN54jyme2G0wpse1GITN\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mindstrong officials told STAT that among their most encouraging results is that its app can even predict how a person will feel next week, or at least how a person will perform on the Hamilton Rating Scale for depression — kind of like a weather app for your mood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data behind this claim is being published soon, said Insel, who is the former head of the National Institute of Mental Health and came to the company in 2017 after a short stint at \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2016/03/28/google-life-sciences-exodus/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Verily\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The app can detect a seven-point change on the Hamilton scale, Insel said. That kind of difference could indicate a patient who is not normally depressed now shows signs of mild or moderate depression, or that a person with moderate depression is now showing signs of a very severe condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a clinician and for someone taking care of a patient, knowing that, it could be very, very powerful,” Dagum said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s momentum has taken it to the cusp of a real-world deployment in California. About 15 counties — including the most populous county in the United States, Los Angeles County — will be spending about $60 million over the next four years to bring companies like Mindstrong and other apps into their health care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These counties hope apps will help them get better services to people with mental illnesses like depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mindstrong program itself is limited: Patients can choose voluntarily whether to use the app, which will be free to them, and that decision won’t affect the rest of the mental health services they can access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lack of Public Data\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the Mindstrong app has only been used in controlled clinical settings and trials — including one run by a company developing new antidepressants and another done in a ketamine clinic. The company has also claimed that a “\u003ca href=\"https://mindstronghealth.com/clinical-programs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nationwide employer\u003c/a>” and private substance abuse clinics in D.C. are using the app.[contextly_sidebar id=\"KGoxoWR6m8MUKnLishPvyacpod0HWpt7\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other than the change on the Hamilton scale — which hasn’t yet gone through peer review and was disclosed to STAT in an interview — almost no data about how well Mindstrong’s technology works is available to independent observers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s website describes five completed clinical trials, but it has not yet published the results of any. Only a handful of other published works — all from the last year — have hinted at how well it works or its scope with data to back up the claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-018-0018-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published\u003c/a> a 27-person pilot study in the journal npj Digital Medicine earlier this year. Dagum is also an author on a poster \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/npp2017265#t122-assessing-anhedonia-with-quantitative-tasks-digital-and-patient-reported-measures-in-a-multicenter-doubleblind-trial-with-btrx246040-for-the-treatment-of-major-depressive-disorder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">presentation\u003c/a> given at the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology’s 2017 conference, another \u003ca href=\"https://isctm.org/public_access/Feb2018/PDFs/Smith-poster.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poster\u003c/a> that reported results from a very wide variety of digital phenotyping techniques — not just typing — and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29074231\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paper\u003c/a> describing a clinical trial protocol — not results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Mindstrong steps toward a wider rollout, the scientific studies behind its claims will matter. Federal regulators, for one, have \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2016/01/mind-gap-what-lumosity-promised-vs-what-it-could-prove\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cracked down\u003c/a> on \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2016/12/marketers-blood-pressure-app-settle-ftc-charges-regarding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commercial apps\u003c/a>that misleadingly reference a study’s conclusions to market their app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on her own research, at least one expert in digital health and mood said she’s skeptical that Mindstrong can, in a general population, work as well as the company claims. MIT’s Picard said that while there are ways to predict or detect mood changes, you usually need more than just a single type of data to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m suspicious that a single modality like typing is going to be sufficient. It would be like saying there’s a single question [on a screening questionnaire] that a doctor could be using,” said Picard, who is also CEO of a company that works on digital phenotyping, like Mindstrong does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My guess is that their specificity to depression is going to be relatively low,” Picard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her \u003ca href=\"https://www.jmir.org/2018/6/e210/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">own\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/954607\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research\u003c/a>, for example, relies on temperature and skin conductivity as well as calls and the amount of time spent on a phone to predict mood changes. It is about 80 percent accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"quote-inner\">\n\u003cp>Especially in the field of digital mental health, “we need more peer review,” said Dr. Steven Steinhubl, the director of digital medicine at Scripps Research Translational Institute. (Steinhubl is also the co-editor-in-chief of npj Digital Medicine.) Though he said he strongly believes in the potential of apps like Mindstrong, Steinhubl cautioned that peer review has a purpose.[contextly_sidebar id=\"8bFNH4xsL9O8lTSDRHnxnqtYwxOF2Z5k\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Peer review] is a very imperfect system, but there’s really nothing in the peer-reviewed literature. That means that other experts aren’t able to weigh in,” he said. “If you have committees and other people reviewing something who maybe don’t have the same level of expertise, you’ll have people saying, ‘Yeah, that sounds good.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other researchers have also found that neuropsychological tests, more broadly, have relatively low accuracy rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a study that examined people who were already being treated for depression, one computerized test could only accurately predict their condition in about 40 percent of cases. Another showed a 44 percent accuracy rate for a similar computerized test used to examine people with major depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A neuropsychological test — if it’s used as a screening test — is “going to miss a lot of people who are depressed,” said Richard Porter, a psychology researcher based at the University of Otago in New Zealand who conducted one of the studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even if depressed people do show some kind of cognitive impairment, it’s impossible to tell what caused it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many things other than mental illness might cause a person to perform poorly on cognitive tests — like living with another disorder, having a lower baseline performance on cognitive tests, having a drink or taking prescription, over-the-counter, or illegal drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mindstrong’s leaders aren’t worried about that kind of noise in their data. Some of those factors are important to note, both for patients and the health care professionals working with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re hungover, you didn’t sleep well, you didn’t take your medication, you have a medication side effects, you’re having stress and challenges at work and at home. Those are things that we want to measure,” Dagum said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even Insel admitted that there are plenty of issues that could affect typing speed — and which Mindstrong hasn’t figured out how to sort out yet. Sticky fingers after lunch, full hands at an airport, wearing gloves during winter, or a broken hand might also plausible affect a person’s typing speed — and, therefore, the app’s performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing we’ve thought about is how we factor in those unusual environmental issues,” Insel said. “We’re working on that. But I can’t say that we’ve solved all of those possible issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Looming Launch in the Golden State\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insel and others linked with the company are fond of comparing their app to a smoke detector — something that’s intended to enhance humans’ senses to detect danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But part of the value of a smoke detector is that if it’s functioning properly, we know it isn’t going off at random. It only goes off in certain conditions and carries a specific message: Your house is on fire or about to be. Do something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least for now, that’s where Mindstrong differs from a smoke detector. There’s no way to tell, yet, how specific it is or how sensitive its algorithm is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insel said that information is coming. He said the company has the data about the app’s accuracy — but he declined to provide those figures, citing papers pending publication. “[They] square very well with clinically used biomarkers,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California authorities suggest they have been shown some of that data. But they’re nevertheless cautious about how the app will work in their new, different setting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One official said there will be “clear writing” included with the state’s version of the app about what it can do, what it cannot do, and what goals the counties hope it will help them achieve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those goals are pretty lofty. At least some counties eventually plan to use it not only to supplement the existing system, but potentially to bring more people into its fold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We might be able to go to colleges, emergency departments, other places,” said Debbie Innes-Gomberg, a deputy director at the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health. “There’s a process of identifying that they’re symptomatic, but [our target population is] people that are in our system and people who maybe need to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even before the app launched in the original five counties that had signed on, the pilot has expanded. Another 11 counties have recently decided to join.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Innes-Gomberg said, it’s going to be rolled out with caution. “We’re not going to oversell this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2018/10/04/mindstrong-questions-over-evidence/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">story\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was originally published by STAT, an online publication of Boston Globe Media that covers health, medicine, and scientific discovery.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp class=\"danger-zone\">In the world of digital health, Silicon Valley-based \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2017/08/07/mindstrong-insel-mental-illness/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mindstrong\u003c/a> stands out. It has a star-studded team and tens of millions in venture capital funding, including from Jeff Bezos’ VC firm.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"danger-zone\">It also has a captivating idea: that its app, based on cognitive functioning research, can help detect troubling mental health patterns by collecting data on a person’s smartphone usage — how quickly they type or scroll, for instance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"danger-zone\">The promise of that technology has helped Mindstrong build incredible momentum since it launched last year; already more than a dozen counties in California have agreed to deploy the company’s app to patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"\">Does the app live up to its promise? There’s no way to tell. Almost no one outside the company has any idea whether it works. Most of the company’s key promises or claims aren’t yet backed up by published, peer-reviewed data — leading some experts to wonder if the technology is ready for the real world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"\">“I wouldn’t waste all that time and money in the wild until they get sure that some of those things are as specific as they hope they are,” said Rosalind Picard, a researcher at MIT Media Lab who is familiar with Mindstrong’s work and tries to use data from smartphones and wearables to detect a person’s mood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as one of the company’s executives, Dr. Tom Insel, acknowledged to STAT that the app isn’t perfect, the company’s CEO emphasized that Mindstrong could provide unprecedented insight into conditions like depression.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mindstrong is not alone in pushing the frontiers of smartphone-based digital health. Many companies use so-called digital phenotyping, collecting scientific data on a person’s digital life, to gain insights into his or her physical or mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s app collects information about how people are typing and runs it through a machine learning algorithm to determine which data can predict their emotional state. Mindstrong has already used it in controlled clinical settings and trials — including one run by a company developing new antidepressants and another done in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2018/09/24/ketamine-clinics-severe-depression-treatment/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ketamine clinic\u003c/a>. The app is available in Apple’s app store, but requires a participant code to access it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve done the validation work against the gold-standard clinical tests for depression, for anxiety, for cognitive decline, whether it’s memory or executive function,” said Dr. Paul Dagum, the company’s founder. “We’re confident, we’re already seeing some really exciting results.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last year, Mindstrong’s footprint and reach have already grown exponentially. The Palo Alto-based company’s workforce has doubled to 42 employees and it made \u003ca href=\"https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazine/magazine_article/philanthropic-impact-digital-phenotyping/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a sizable gift\u003c/a> to Harvard’s school of public health. In February, it launched a partnership with Takeda to develop new biomarkers that will be able to aid the pharmaceutical giant’s clinical trials for depression treatments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea is to use that data to establish a “normal” pattern — so it can be compared against someone’s typing habits on any given day. If the habits look off, slower or more agitated than normal, the app can alert a health care provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abnormal patterns, Mindstrong says, might show up if a person is more depressed or anxious, or if just about anything else about their mental health changes. When asked which disorders Mindstrong might be able to detect, Dagum replied, “all of them.” (Dagum, a data scientist and physician, founded the company in 2017 with Rick Klausner, the founder and director of CAR-T pioneer Juno Therapeutics and \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2018/06/02/grail-cancer-blood-test-asco/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grail\u003c/a>, a liquid biopsy company.)\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mindstrong officials told STAT that among their most encouraging results is that its app can even predict how a person will feel next week, or at least how a person will perform on the Hamilton Rating Scale for depression — kind of like a weather app for your mood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data behind this claim is being published soon, said Insel, who is the former head of the National Institute of Mental Health and came to the company in 2017 after a short stint at \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2016/03/28/google-life-sciences-exodus/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Verily\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The app can detect a seven-point change on the Hamilton scale, Insel said. That kind of difference could indicate a patient who is not normally depressed now shows signs of mild or moderate depression, or that a person with moderate depression is now showing signs of a very severe condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a clinician and for someone taking care of a patient, knowing that, it could be very, very powerful,” Dagum said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s momentum has taken it to the cusp of a real-world deployment in California. About 15 counties — including the most populous county in the United States, Los Angeles County — will be spending about $60 million over the next four years to bring companies like Mindstrong and other apps into their health care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These counties hope apps will help them get better services to people with mental illnesses like depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mindstrong program itself is limited: Patients can choose voluntarily whether to use the app, which will be free to them, and that decision won’t affect the rest of the mental health services they can access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lack of Public Data\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the Mindstrong app has only been used in controlled clinical settings and trials — including one run by a company developing new antidepressants and another done in a ketamine clinic. The company has also claimed that a “\u003ca href=\"https://mindstronghealth.com/clinical-programs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nationwide employer\u003c/a>” and private substance abuse clinics in D.C. are using the app.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other than the change on the Hamilton scale — which hasn’t yet gone through peer review and was disclosed to STAT in an interview — almost no data about how well Mindstrong’s technology works is available to independent observers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s website describes five completed clinical trials, but it has not yet published the results of any. Only a handful of other published works — all from the last year — have hinted at how well it works or its scope with data to back up the claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-018-0018-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published\u003c/a> a 27-person pilot study in the journal npj Digital Medicine earlier this year. Dagum is also an author on a poster \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/npp2017265#t122-assessing-anhedonia-with-quantitative-tasks-digital-and-patient-reported-measures-in-a-multicenter-doubleblind-trial-with-btrx246040-for-the-treatment-of-major-depressive-disorder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">presentation\u003c/a> given at the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology’s 2017 conference, another \u003ca href=\"https://isctm.org/public_access/Feb2018/PDFs/Smith-poster.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poster\u003c/a> that reported results from a very wide variety of digital phenotyping techniques — not just typing — and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29074231\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paper\u003c/a> describing a clinical trial protocol — not results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Mindstrong steps toward a wider rollout, the scientific studies behind its claims will matter. Federal regulators, for one, have \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2016/01/mind-gap-what-lumosity-promised-vs-what-it-could-prove\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cracked down\u003c/a> on \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2016/12/marketers-blood-pressure-app-settle-ftc-charges-regarding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commercial apps\u003c/a>that misleadingly reference a study’s conclusions to market their app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on her own research, at least one expert in digital health and mood said she’s skeptical that Mindstrong can, in a general population, work as well as the company claims. MIT’s Picard said that while there are ways to predict or detect mood changes, you usually need more than just a single type of data to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m suspicious that a single modality like typing is going to be sufficient. It would be like saying there’s a single question [on a screening questionnaire] that a doctor could be using,” said Picard, who is also CEO of a company that works on digital phenotyping, like Mindstrong does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My guess is that their specificity to depression is going to be relatively low,” Picard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her \u003ca href=\"https://www.jmir.org/2018/6/e210/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">own\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/954607\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research\u003c/a>, for example, relies on temperature and skin conductivity as well as calls and the amount of time spent on a phone to predict mood changes. It is about 80 percent accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"quote-inner\">\n\u003cp>Especially in the field of digital mental health, “we need more peer review,” said Dr. Steven Steinhubl, the director of digital medicine at Scripps Research Translational Institute. (Steinhubl is also the co-editor-in-chief of npj Digital Medicine.) Though he said he strongly believes in the potential of apps like Mindstrong, Steinhubl cautioned that peer review has a purpose.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Peer review] is a very imperfect system, but there’s really nothing in the peer-reviewed literature. That means that other experts aren’t able to weigh in,” he said. “If you have committees and other people reviewing something who maybe don’t have the same level of expertise, you’ll have people saying, ‘Yeah, that sounds good.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other researchers have also found that neuropsychological tests, more broadly, have relatively low accuracy rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a study that examined people who were already being treated for depression, one computerized test could only accurately predict their condition in about 40 percent of cases. Another showed a 44 percent accuracy rate for a similar computerized test used to examine people with major depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A neuropsychological test — if it’s used as a screening test — is “going to miss a lot of people who are depressed,” said Richard Porter, a psychology researcher based at the University of Otago in New Zealand who conducted one of the studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even if depressed people do show some kind of cognitive impairment, it’s impossible to tell what caused it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many things other than mental illness might cause a person to perform poorly on cognitive tests — like living with another disorder, having a lower baseline performance on cognitive tests, having a drink or taking prescription, over-the-counter, or illegal drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mindstrong’s leaders aren’t worried about that kind of noise in their data. Some of those factors are important to note, both for patients and the health care professionals working with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re hungover, you didn’t sleep well, you didn’t take your medication, you have a medication side effects, you’re having stress and challenges at work and at home. Those are things that we want to measure,” Dagum said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even Insel admitted that there are plenty of issues that could affect typing speed — and which Mindstrong hasn’t figured out how to sort out yet. Sticky fingers after lunch, full hands at an airport, wearing gloves during winter, or a broken hand might also plausible affect a person’s typing speed — and, therefore, the app’s performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing we’ve thought about is how we factor in those unusual environmental issues,” Insel said. “We’re working on that. But I can’t say that we’ve solved all of those possible issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Looming Launch in the Golden State\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insel and others linked with the company are fond of comparing their app to a smoke detector — something that’s intended to enhance humans’ senses to detect danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But part of the value of a smoke detector is that if it’s functioning properly, we know it isn’t going off at random. It only goes off in certain conditions and carries a specific message: Your house is on fire or about to be. Do something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least for now, that’s where Mindstrong differs from a smoke detector. There’s no way to tell, yet, how specific it is or how sensitive its algorithm is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insel said that information is coming. He said the company has the data about the app’s accuracy — but he declined to provide those figures, citing papers pending publication. “[They] square very well with clinically used biomarkers,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California authorities suggest they have been shown some of that data. But they’re nevertheless cautious about how the app will work in their new, different setting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One official said there will be “clear writing” included with the state’s version of the app about what it can do, what it cannot do, and what goals the counties hope it will help them achieve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those goals are pretty lofty. At least some counties eventually plan to use it not only to supplement the existing system, but potentially to bring more people into its fold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We might be able to go to colleges, emergency departments, other places,” said Debbie Innes-Gomberg, a deputy director at the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health. “There’s a process of identifying that they’re symptomatic, but [our target population is] people that are in our system and people who maybe need to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even before the app launched in the original five counties that had signed on, the pilot has expanded. Another 11 counties have recently decided to join.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Innes-Gomberg said, it’s going to be rolled out with caution. “We’re not going to oversell this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2018/10/04/mindstrong-questions-over-evidence/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">story\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was originally published by STAT, an online publication of Boston Globe Media that covers health, medicine, and scientific discovery.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>David McElveen recently had a stroke. The 59-year-old Vallejo resident and John George Psychiatric Hospital nurse has short-term memory problems and has been out of work for more than a year. The stroke may be linked to an attack he suffered last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was working the morning shift on Sept. 13, 2017 at the Alameda County mental health care facility in San Leandro when a patient punched him the face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I heard somebody running and that’s the last thing I remembered,” McElveen said in an interview on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He fell to the floor. The patient kept hitting him, slamming his head against the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The injured was unconscious and had a seizure while bleeding from his face and head area,” an investigator with California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) wrote in the agency’s investigation into the attack, obtained through a California Public Records Act Request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McElveen’s facial bones were fractured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The left side of my skull was busted open. My right eye was closed for more than 10 days. My jaw was broken in two different places. And, I lost a tooth,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11694380\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11694380\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/mcelveen-e1537822957258.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/mcelveen-e1537822957258.jpg 480w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/mcelveen-e1537822957258-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/mcelveen-e1537822957258-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/mcelveen-e1537822957258-375x500.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David McElveen, a John George Psychiatric Hospital nurse, was attacked by a patient in September 2017. \u003ccite>(Courtesy David McElveen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>McElveen was hospitalized and underwent surgery. Doctors wired his jaw shut. He also says the morning he was attacked, the hospital was short-staffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t have enough mental health workers. We didn’t have enough nurses,” he said. “Everyone was just overwhelmed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union officials who represent McElveen and other John George workers say the attack is the result of low staffing at the facility’s emergency room (known as “emergency services”) and poor security protocols at a hospital that has repeatedly come under scrutiny for dangers posed to employees and patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, dozens of Service Employees International Union Local 1021 members plan to hold an informational picket in Oakland on Tuesday afternoon to draw attention to staffing issues there and two other Alameda County medical facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two months after McElveen was attacked, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Runaway-psych-patient-hit-by-car-in-San-Leandro-12417473.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another patient\u003c/a> fled from the hospital, tried to carjack two vehicles, assaulted a teenage boy and bit an elderly man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/overwhelmed/Content?oid=4705660\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">East Bay Express\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ktvu.com/news/2-investigates/2-investigates-patients-say-conditions-at-john-george-mental-hospital-were-hell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KTVU\u003c/a> reported on severe overcrowding at the hospital where workers described the facility’s emergency room as dangerous and inhumane, with patients sleeping and eating on the floor — some moaning and crying for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite that media scrutiny and probes by government agencies, not much has changed, according to the SEIU Local 1021 field supervisor Ann Schuyler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The number of injuries is not abating and the severity of these injuries, caused while at work, is heartbreaking,” Schuyler said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Investigation Into the Attack\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office has identified 51-year-old Michael Lindsay of Fairfield as the patient who allegedly assaulted McElveen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay was on the third day of his stay at John George and “was extremely agitated” during the two-and-a-half hours before the attack, state workplace regulators said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The patient “expressed that he wanted to leave the facility” and was “verbally abusive to staff,” Cal/OSHA’s report states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McElveen and another hospital worker tried to redirect Lindsay’s attention and de-escalate his behavior. Hospital staff gave him medication but said it was unclear if he faked digesting the pill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minutes later Lindsay went behind McElveen and punched him in the face and continued attacking him, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other staff members subdued the patient, called 911 and administered CPR to McElveen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When an Alameda County Sheriff’s deputy arrived, Lindsay was being held down by staff and was yelling. The deputy placed handcuffs on Lindsay and put his knee on his back while other law enforcement officers arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“McElveen was bleeding from a large wound on his head and was complaining of pain to his jaw,” wrote deputy Jeriah Gurley in a report on the incident, noting that the victim had blood on his clothes and there was blood on the floor next to him. Witnesses told the deputy McElveen was gasping for air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McElveen was taken to Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley where he was treated for the next three days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay was taken to San Leandro Hospital and eventually arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors later filed felony battery charges against Lindsay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has pleaded not guilty and his case is expected to go to trial in November, according to Alameda County District Attorney spokeswoman Teresa Drenick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deputy’s report also found that there were no surveillance cameras in the area where the attack took place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA concluded that Lindsay arrived at the hospital using a different name and that John George did not have policies in place to handle patients who use aliases. Without those procedures, the hospital failed to identify Lindsay as a patient who had a violent history at the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Safety and Staffing Issues at the Hospital\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Cal/OSHA cited the Alameda Health System (AHS), which runs the hospital. It issued a $11,250 fine against AHS for a “serious” violation for having an injury and illness prevention program that was ineffective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AHS officials did not appeal the penalty, and in June they paid the fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But hospital leaders emphasize that the facility correctly followed protocol before, during and after the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luis Fonseca, AHS’s chief operating officer, told Cal/OSHA that Linsday did not show signs of violence beforehand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We initiated safe practices and processes,” Fonseca said. The hospital immediately contacted law enforcement, helped McElveen press charges and provided him with emotional support, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra Williams, director of the hospital system’s environmental health and safety department, told a Cal/OSHA inspector “our actions were reasonable and responsible” on the day of the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lorna Fernandes, an AHS spokeswoman, emphasized that creating and maintaining a safe environment for its workers, patients and visitors is a top priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“AHS self-reported this incident to Cal/OSHA and then took immediate action and actively engaged all appropriate protocols to address the situation. Further, AHS cooperated with Cal/OSHA over the course of a thorough investigation,” Fernandes said in an statement emailed to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alameda Health System realizes that keeping our employees safe from harm so they can provide quality patient care is of the utmost importance. We continue to proactively address and adjust protocols to ensure we are adhering to best practices for maximum protection for AHS employees, patients, visitors and the community we serve,” Fernandes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the nurses’ contract with AHS at John George calls for one nurse for for every six patients at the emergency room, according to SEIU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the union’s Schuyler says with 40 to 60 patients in the ER, the hospital often goes over that ratio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says SEIU has pushed for years for more staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Patients keep arriving,” Schuyler said. “There is still an enormous need. It’s a constant struggle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AHS officials have yet to respond to questions about staffing at John George.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>David McElveen recently had a stroke. The 59-year-old Vallejo resident and John George Psychiatric Hospital nurse has short-term memory problems and has been out of work for more than a year. The stroke may be linked to an attack he suffered last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was working the morning shift on Sept. 13, 2017 at the Alameda County mental health care facility in San Leandro when a patient punched him the face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I heard somebody running and that’s the last thing I remembered,” McElveen said in an interview on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He fell to the floor. The patient kept hitting him, slamming his head against the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The injured was unconscious and had a seizure while bleeding from his face and head area,” an investigator with California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) wrote in the agency’s investigation into the attack, obtained through a California Public Records Act Request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McElveen’s facial bones were fractured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The left side of my skull was busted open. My right eye was closed for more than 10 days. My jaw was broken in two different places. 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Hospital staff gave him medication but said it was unclear if he faked digesting the pill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minutes later Lindsay went behind McElveen and punched him in the face and continued attacking him, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other staff members subdued the patient, called 911 and administered CPR to McElveen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When an Alameda County Sheriff’s deputy arrived, Lindsay was being held down by staff and was yelling. The deputy placed handcuffs on Lindsay and put his knee on his back while other law enforcement officers arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“McElveen was bleeding from a large wound on his head and was complaining of pain to his jaw,” wrote deputy Jeriah Gurley in a report on the incident, noting that the victim had blood on his clothes and there was blood on the floor next to him. Witnesses told the deputy McElveen was gasping for air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McElveen was taken to Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley where he was treated for the next three days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay was taken to San Leandro Hospital and eventually arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors later filed felony battery charges against Lindsay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has pleaded not guilty and his case is expected to go to trial in November, according to Alameda County District Attorney spokeswoman Teresa Drenick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deputy’s report also found that there were no surveillance cameras in the area where the attack took place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA concluded that Lindsay arrived at the hospital using a different name and that John George did not have policies in place to handle patients who use aliases. Without those procedures, the hospital failed to identify Lindsay as a patient who had a violent history at the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Safety and Staffing Issues at the Hospital\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Cal/OSHA cited the Alameda Health System (AHS), which runs the hospital. It issued a $11,250 fine against AHS for a “serious” violation for having an injury and illness prevention program that was ineffective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AHS officials did not appeal the penalty, and in June they paid the fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But hospital leaders emphasize that the facility correctly followed protocol before, during and after the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luis Fonseca, AHS’s chief operating officer, told Cal/OSHA that Linsday did not show signs of violence beforehand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We initiated safe practices and processes,” Fonseca said. 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Leaning against one is Cal Fire Battalion Chief Rich Dennett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first he’s really hesitant to talk to me, tries to give me a fake name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m Norm Brown,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s different than what’s on your name tag,” I quip back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennett and some of his co-workers standing nearby chuckle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All right, I’m Rich Dennett,” he finally says as the laughter dies down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11689400\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11689400\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/dennett-crew-800x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"575\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cal Fire Battalion Chief Rich Dennett (third from left) is the leader of this strike team based out of Mendocino. Dennett stands in front of one of the team’s engines with some of his co-workers. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dennett looks in many ways exactly like you’d expect a veteran firefighter to look. He’s tall, in good shape and has a thick mustache with flecks of gray in it. He’s wearing a blue uniform topped with a dusty Cal Fire baseball hat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennett fits the bill of that guy you wouldn’t expect to open up about his feelings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, “over the past 20, 30 years, we don’t bottle things up inside like we used to,” Dennett says. “We’re more apt now to talk about those things, and I think it really helps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennett says there’s still some truth to the perception that firefighters are stoic and don’t share their emotions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the public, it’s probably pretty accurate,” he says. “But with each other, if there’s trying times or things that are difficult to handle sometimes with medical-type calls or other things, we’re really good about talking to each other and getting each other to open up. Sometimes it could be in the fire engine, sometimes it could be under the shade of a tree and just sit and talk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask him if there was a traumatic incident that he’d experienced on the job that he would be willing to talk about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing that I’m willing to share publicly,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11689401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11689401\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/cal-fire-engines-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/cal-fire-engines-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/cal-fire-engines-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/cal-fire-engines-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/cal-fire-engines.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/cal-fire-engines-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/cal-fire-engines-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/cal-fire-engines-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/cal-fire-engines-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/cal-fire-engines-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These engines make up the Cal Fire strike team that Rich Dennett leads. They are parked in a lot at the Mendocino Complex Fire base camp after 24 hours on the front lines. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are still firefighters who aren’t comfortable showing emotional weakness to each other. Some see it as a stigma. Cal Fire has been trying to chip away at that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a morning briefing last month at the Carr Fire base camp in Anderson, officials reminded the hundreds of firefighters gathered around the stage to take care of themselves emotionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Please take a moment today and tomorrow and every day just to check in with yourself and check in with your crews making sure you’re emotionally and psychologically available and ready to go rock and roll in what we’re doing out here. I just wanna let you know that we have a peer support trailer set up over here by check-in,” the head of Employee Support Services said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down at the Mendocino Complex base camp in Ukiah, their air-conditioned peer counseling trailer sits slightly off the beaten path to protect firefighters’ privacy. It’s where peer counselor Nikole Schutz is stationed. She used to be a firefighter, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11689405\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11689405\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/schutz-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/schutz-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/schutz-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/schutz-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/schutz-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/schutz-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/schutz-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/schutz-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/schutz-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/schutz-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/schutz-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nikole Schutz provides peer counseling to firefighters and was a firefighter, too. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When folks call and they do need help, there’s somebody on the line that understands what it’s like to be in the station, who understands what it’s like to be on the fire line,” Schutz says. “It’s that credibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a big wildfire like the Mendocino Complex Fire, about 30 people drop by the trailer every day, Schutz says. About half of them will seek help from an outside therapist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We tell them if your body says you need to cry a little bit, that’s fine, too,” Schutz says. “So we just tell folks, you know, be human.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schutz says besides missing home and feeling fatigued, firefighters can witness some pretty traumatic things, especially on medical calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On our front there is a lot of post-traumatic stress out there. What we try to do as peer support is really educate people, so then they can catch it early,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is helpful not just for an individual firefighter. It’s a larger safety issue. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m Norm Brown,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s different than what’s on your name tag,” I quip back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennett and some of his co-workers standing nearby chuckle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All right, I’m Rich Dennett,” he finally says as the laughter dies down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11689400\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11689400\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/dennett-crew-800x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"575\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cal Fire Battalion Chief Rich Dennett (third from left) is the leader of this strike team based out of Mendocino. Dennett stands in front of one of the team’s engines with some of his co-workers. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dennett looks in many ways exactly like you’d expect a veteran firefighter to look. He’s tall, in good shape and has a thick mustache with flecks of gray in it. He’s wearing a blue uniform topped with a dusty Cal Fire baseball hat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennett fits the bill of that guy you wouldn’t expect to open up about his feelings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, “over the past 20, 30 years, we don’t bottle things up inside like we used to,” Dennett says. “We’re more apt now to talk about those things, and I think it really helps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennett says there’s still some truth to the perception that firefighters are stoic and don’t share their emotions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the public, it’s probably pretty accurate,” he says. “But with each other, if there’s trying times or things that are difficult to handle sometimes with medical-type calls or other things, we’re really good about talking to each other and getting each other to open up. Sometimes it could be in the fire engine, sometimes it could be under the shade of a tree and just sit and talk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask him if there was a traumatic incident that he’d experienced on the job that he would be willing to talk about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing that I’m willing to share publicly,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11689401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11689401\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/cal-fire-engines-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/cal-fire-engines-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/cal-fire-engines-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/cal-fire-engines-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/cal-fire-engines.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/cal-fire-engines-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/cal-fire-engines-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/cal-fire-engines-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/cal-fire-engines-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/cal-fire-engines-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These engines make up the Cal Fire strike team that Rich Dennett leads. They are parked in a lot at the Mendocino Complex Fire base camp after 24 hours on the front lines. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are still firefighters who aren’t comfortable showing emotional weakness to each other. Some see it as a stigma. Cal Fire has been trying to chip away at that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a morning briefing last month at the Carr Fire base camp in Anderson, officials reminded the hundreds of firefighters gathered around the stage to take care of themselves emotionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Please take a moment today and tomorrow and every day just to check in with yourself and check in with your crews making sure you’re emotionally and psychologically available and ready to go rock and roll in what we’re doing out here. I just wanna let you know that we have a peer support trailer set up over here by check-in,” the head of Employee Support Services said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down at the Mendocino Complex base camp in Ukiah, their air-conditioned peer counseling trailer sits slightly off the beaten path to protect firefighters’ privacy. It’s where peer counselor Nikole Schutz is stationed. She used to be a firefighter, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11689405\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11689405\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/schutz-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/schutz-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/schutz-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/schutz-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/schutz-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/schutz-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/schutz-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/schutz-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/schutz-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/schutz-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/schutz-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nikole Schutz provides peer counseling to firefighters and was a firefighter, too. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When folks call and they do need help, there’s somebody on the line that understands what it’s like to be in the station, who understands what it’s like to be on the fire line,” Schutz says. “It’s that credibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a big wildfire like the Mendocino Complex Fire, about 30 people drop by the trailer every day, Schutz says. About half of them will seek help from an outside therapist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We tell them if your body says you need to cry a little bit, that’s fine, too,” Schutz says. “So we just tell folks, you know, be human.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schutz says besides missing home and feeling fatigued, firefighters can witness some pretty traumatic things, especially on medical calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On our front there is a lot of post-traumatic stress out there. What we try to do as peer support is really educate people, so then they can catch it early,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is helpful not just for an individual firefighter. It’s a larger safety issue. Because on the front lines of a fire, everyone needs to be laser-focused and looking out for each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire officials say they’re considering increasing their staffing to prevent some of the 48-hour shifts that become necessary at the outbreak of a large fire, as well as grant more vacation days for firefighters to recharge.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Choosing the right mental health therapist means finding connection and trust. For some African-American seniors living in the Bay Area, finding that therapist takes extra work. Finding someone they trust and who understands the challenges older people face is important, but African-American seniors say another major factor is that the provider understands race and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paula Marie Parker, 64, is a retired newspaper journalist. She stays active in the Oakland community as a health advocate for people of color and as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv468eIM0dU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">storyteller\u003c/a>. Parker’s family has a history of mental health challenges, and she is particular about what she seeks in a therapist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m looking for somebody who is a really good listener,” Parker says. “I’m looking for somebody who is empathetic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker, who identifies as African-American with some Native American ancestry, says a therapist with an understanding of her race and culture is another requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am really focused on finding someone who’s a fit for me as a woman of color,” Parker says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding a black therapist can be tough, even in a city as diverse as Oakland. According to the American Psychological Association, a little over 5 percent of working psychologists in the country are black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>African-Americans, including those who are seniors, go to therapy in lower numbers compared to white people. Lack of financial resources to pay for treatment is one reason. But there’s also concern the provider won’t understand, nor empathize, with their racial and cultural experiences. Black seniors face problems in their personal lives, but social issues affect them, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“White therapists may be really great, “ Parker says. “But when you talk about the [mental] impact of worrying about black men in your family being pulled over by the police, beaten or killed — they just can’t feel it the way that somebody of an African-American background can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker bonded with her former black therapist, who was closer to middle age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would hug at the end of the session,” she recalls. “Even though she wasn’t my age, she was a woman of enough age that she understood a lot of things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker is currently with a therapist who is white, whom she likes. They discussed early on Parker’s need for a therapist to understand her race and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Day one I was worried that I would scare her off,” Parker says. “But I just laid my cards out on the table. I still think that’s just the best way because she will understand why I seem skittish. I’m sizing her up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senior black clients come in the door dealing with the high cost of living, homelessness, raising their grandchildren, health issues and more, according to Dr. Patricia Maul-Jones, an African-American psychotherapist who practices in the Pill Hill neighborhood, home to many Oakland hospitals and medical clinics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maul-Jones came to this practice when there were no black therapists. She says older black clients had a hard time opening up with her white colleague. But Maul-Jones made a connection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They say, ‘You know exactly where I’m coming from,’” Maul-Jones says. “Yeah I know, because that’s my uncle, that’s me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Ripple Effect of Medical Racism\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maul-Jones says African-American seniors have some distrust of the mental health field and remember historical incidents of medical racism like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/05/16/youve-got-bad-blood-the-horror-of-the-tuskegee-syphilis-experiment/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.970421a8e3dd\">Tuskegee experiment.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Racial inequality in health services still exists. A 2011 \u003ca href=\"http://www.acbhcs.org/providers/QI/docs/Alameda_African_American_Utilization_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services report\u003c/a> said African-Americans are disproportionately misdiagnosed and labeled with mental health issues that are much more serious than their actual problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maul-Jones says it’s important for providers to know and understand the history of black clients. Generations of trauma continue to affect African-Americans’ mental health, such as poverty, abuse and daily encounters with racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if you were not personally traumatized, your mother probably was, your grandmother probably was, your neighbor, so you are surrounded by trauma in some form,” Maul-Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chances are there was little to no mental health support to help them recover from the trauma years ago. But some effort is being made in the field today, such as cultural trainings and classes for aspiring therapists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there are those who can’t or choose not to see a therapist. They may turn instead to community structures for mental health support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Anderson is one example. He’s chairman of \u003ca href=\"https://blackmenspeak.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Men Speak\u003c/a>, a group in East Oakland that spreads the word about mental health to the community. Many of the men who participate are over 50 and live with mental health challenges common in elderly populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m 69 years old and I cannot work full time,” Anderson says. “I do not have the income to rent a home or even an apartment right now. I’m basically homeless, living in a room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson has been a Black Men Speak member for nearly 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Black Men Speak became my lifesaver, my support group,” he says. “I have people with similar backgrounds, who share the same hopes, who have been through some of the traumatic situations. But they found a way to create something. That’s how Black Men Speak was created.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Anderson is around people who share his culture. Years ago, he had a white therapist who he says didn’t listen to him during their sessions. The therapist made an angry phone call to Anderson when he stopped using his services. It brought back memories from Anderson’s early days in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made me feel like I was down South again,” Anderson recalls. “Like the boss man was telling me what I should do and then reprimands me because I didn’t.“\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He stopped seeing therapists after that incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It goes back to basically respect,” adds 63-year-old James Glenn, a member of Black Men Speak who is also a retired assistant mental health clinician. “One of the worst sins that anyone can do working with a black person is not listen to them. And I mean really empathetically listen to them. Listening not only with the words, but with the body language.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many African-American seniors in California, like Joe Anderson, are from the South and still practice Southern manners. They expect a higher level of respect when speaking with them, such as the provider asking if they prefer to be called mister or miss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Maul-Jones explains: “You go to therapy, walk in and a young white woman says, ‘OK John, I’ll see you.’ She says a black senior may think, ‘This white woman called me John?’ It’s uncomfortable. Now as a senior, I’m wondering if you’re disrespectful because I’m black and you’re white.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This question of disrespect may resurrect memories from a time when black people had to address white people by their last names, but white people addressed black people by their first names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, with so few black providers available, Paula Marie Parker urges seniors to remain open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are really good people out there, in all colors,” she says. “It might be somebody who is in a whole other packaging and yet is an old soul who can really hear you and help you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker says the lack of black therapists won’t stop her from working on healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced with the support of a journalism fellowship from New America Media, the Gerontological Society of America and the Commonwealth Fund.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding a black therapist can be tough, even in a city as diverse as Oakland. According to the American Psychological Association, a little over 5 percent of working psychologists in the country are black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>African-Americans, including those who are seniors, go to therapy in lower numbers compared to white people. Lack of financial resources to pay for treatment is one reason. But there’s also concern the provider won’t understand, nor empathize, with their racial and cultural experiences. Black seniors face problems in their personal lives, but social issues affect them, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“White therapists may be really great, “ Parker says. “But when you talk about the [mental] impact of worrying about black men in your family being pulled over by the police, beaten or killed — they just can’t feel it the way that somebody of an African-American background can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker bonded with her former black therapist, who was closer to middle age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would hug at the end of the session,” she recalls. “Even though she wasn’t my age, she was a woman of enough age that she understood a lot of things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker is currently with a therapist who is white, whom she likes. They discussed early on Parker’s need for a therapist to understand her race and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Day one I was worried that I would scare her off,” Parker says. “But I just laid my cards out on the table. I still think that’s just the best way because she will understand why I seem skittish. I’m sizing her up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senior black clients come in the door dealing with the high cost of living, homelessness, raising their grandchildren, health issues and more, according to Dr. Patricia Maul-Jones, an African-American psychotherapist who practices in the Pill Hill neighborhood, home to many Oakland hospitals and medical clinics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maul-Jones came to this practice when there were no black therapists. She says older black clients had a hard time opening up with her white colleague. But Maul-Jones made a connection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They say, ‘You know exactly where I’m coming from,’” Maul-Jones says. “Yeah I know, because that’s my uncle, that’s me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Ripple Effect of Medical Racism\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maul-Jones says African-American seniors have some distrust of the mental health field and remember historical incidents of medical racism like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/05/16/youve-got-bad-blood-the-horror-of-the-tuskegee-syphilis-experiment/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.970421a8e3dd\">Tuskegee experiment.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Racial inequality in health services still exists. A 2011 \u003ca href=\"http://www.acbhcs.org/providers/QI/docs/Alameda_African_American_Utilization_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services report\u003c/a> said African-Americans are disproportionately misdiagnosed and labeled with mental health issues that are much more serious than their actual problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maul-Jones says it’s important for providers to know and understand the history of black clients. Generations of trauma continue to affect African-Americans’ mental health, such as poverty, abuse and daily encounters with racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if you were not personally traumatized, your mother probably was, your grandmother probably was, your neighbor, so you are surrounded by trauma in some form,” Maul-Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chances are there was little to no mental health support to help them recover from the trauma years ago. But some effort is being made in the field today, such as cultural trainings and classes for aspiring therapists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there are those who can’t or choose not to see a therapist. They may turn instead to community structures for mental health support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Anderson is one example. He’s chairman of \u003ca href=\"https://blackmenspeak.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Men Speak\u003c/a>, a group in East Oakland that spreads the word about mental health to the community. Many of the men who participate are over 50 and live with mental health challenges common in elderly populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m 69 years old and I cannot work full time,” Anderson says. “I do not have the income to rent a home or even an apartment right now. I’m basically homeless, living in a room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson has been a Black Men Speak member for nearly 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Black Men Speak became my lifesaver, my support group,” he says. “I have people with similar backgrounds, who share the same hopes, who have been through some of the traumatic situations. But they found a way to create something. That’s how Black Men Speak was created.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Anderson is around people who share his culture. Years ago, he had a white therapist who he says didn’t listen to him during their sessions. The therapist made an angry phone call to Anderson when he stopped using his services. It brought back memories from Anderson’s early days in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made me feel like I was down South again,” Anderson recalls. “Like the boss man was telling me what I should do and then reprimands me because I didn’t.“\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He stopped seeing therapists after that incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It goes back to basically respect,” adds 63-year-old James Glenn, a member of Black Men Speak who is also a retired assistant mental health clinician. “One of the worst sins that anyone can do working with a black person is not listen to them. And I mean really empathetically listen to them. Listening not only with the words, but with the body language.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many African-American seniors in California, like Joe Anderson, are from the South and still practice Southern manners. They expect a higher level of respect when speaking with them, such as the provider asking if they prefer to be called mister or miss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Maul-Jones explains: “You go to therapy, walk in and a young white woman says, ‘OK John, I’ll see you.’ She says a black senior may think, ‘This white woman called me John?’ It’s uncomfortable. Now as a senior, I’m wondering if you’re disrespectful because I’m black and you’re white.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This question of disrespect may resurrect memories from a time when black people had to address white people by their last names, but white people addressed black people by their first names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, with so few black providers available, Paula Marie Parker urges seniors to remain open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are really good people out there, in all colors,” she says. “It might be somebody who is in a whole other packaging and yet is an old soul who can really hear you and help you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker says the lack of black therapists won’t stop her from working on healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When student leaders from all 23 California State University campuses came together last fall to set priorities for the academic year, improving campus mental health services received more nominations than any other issue. It beat out even that perennial concern, tuition costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State Student Association President Maggie White said she’s not surprised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing wait times at counseling centers that are exceeding two or three weeks, people turned away after a few appointments because they’ve exceeded the maximum allotment, and students not feeling comfortable going to counselors because no one looks like them or reflects their experience,” White said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the stigma attached to mental health care fades, California students are increasingly clamoring for more on-campus services that can help them cope with anxiety, depression and the stresses of a contentious political climate and rising living expenses. Several bills pending in the California Legislature would set aside resources for mental health care at the state’s public colleges and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mental health advocates say on-campus care is especially important because people often first experience psychological problems during their young adult years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so much the age when serious mental illness manifests itself, and here we have these institutions that could absolutely be identifying this early on,” said Deborah Anderluh, a spokesperson for the Steinberg Institute, which lobbies for more funding for mental health treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only eight of the Cal State system’s 23 campuses meet the standard of one counselor per 1,000 to 1,500 students set by the International Association of Counseling Services — the national accreditor for campus counseling centers — according to a survey by the student association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many community colleges don’t have a counseling center at all, or rely on graduate student interns to provide care. The University of California system is in the midst of a five-year hiring push to add counselors on its campuses, funded by student fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of college students seeking counseling on campuses nationwide grew five times faster than enrollment between 2009 and 2015, according to the Center for Collegiate Mental Health, a national consortium. Depression and anxiety were the biggest problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/8e7e2aac-98b6-44c7-b9c6-2c0922e23178?src=embed\" title=\"Demand for college mental health services is growing nationwide\" width=\"800\" height=\"700\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saba Ansari, a third-year politics major at CSU Fullerton, said panic attacks during her freshman year often kept her from sleeping through the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have very traditional, conservative parents who wanted me to become a scientist,” Ansari said. But she wanted to go into politics. And the polarized atmosphere that accompanied President Trump’s election exacerbated the social pressures she was already experiencing as a Muslim woman, Ansari said. \"I was having this identity crisis and feeling really threatened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until starting on-campus therapy, Ansari said, that she realized she wasn’t the only one dealing with those challenges. Her grades improved, and she took on more responsibility in student government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when she recommended the campus counseling center to a friend who was grieving after a death in the family, said Ansari, the friend couldn’t get an appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center staff said, “‘We’re all filled up; can you call back in two weeks?’” Ansari said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislators are considering a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB968\" target=\"_blank\">proposal\u003c/a> to ease that backlog by requiring public campuses to have one full-time counselor for every 1,500 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve put a lot of emphasis on how to get students to graduate on time,” state Sen. Richard Pan, a Sacramento Democrat and the bill’s author, told CALmatters. “One of the barriers is mental health issues, and we should be helping [students] overcome them. Otherwise, we’re not maximizing our investment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We see PTSD, bipolar, eating disorders and schizophrenia, but depression and anxiety are the two that really eat up our kids.'\u003ccite>Peg Scott, American River College psychology professor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>CSU and the community colleges would have to hire hundreds of new counselors to meet the ratio Pan is proposing, according to a legislative analysis. The community college system has more than 7,000 students for every counselor systemwide, according to the analysis, while CSU has more than 2,000. Staffing at the University of California is more robust, with about 1,100 students per counselor overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the university systems has taken a position on the bill. But Denise Bevly, CSU’s director of wellness, questioned whether mandating staff levels for counselors was the best way to improve care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One-on-one counseling may not be it for all students,” she said. Some issues might be better addressed through prevention and early intervention such as “a stress-management workshop, or a peer counseling group, or a yoga class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s still a gap, if we’re honest,” between the increasing demand for counseling services and the supply, Bevly said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The schools are doing what they can with the resources they have, she added. In June, the university will start training a few faculty and staff from each campus to be “wellness ambassadors.” They’ll be able to direct students who are struggling with mental health or financial pressures to the right campus programs, Bevly said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pan’s legislation may mean the most change for community colleges. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665552\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MentalHealthConversation-800x588.jpg\" alt=\"American River College students Grace Swint and Shamona Thompson Ross talk about mental health.\" width=\"800\" height=\"588\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11665552\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MentalHealthConversation-800x588.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MentalHealthConversation-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MentalHealthConversation-1020x750.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MentalHealthConversation-1200x882.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MentalHealthConversation.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MentalHealthConversation-1180x867.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MentalHealthConversation-960x706.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MentalHealthConversation-240x176.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MentalHealthConversation-375x276.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MentalHealthConversation-520x382.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">American River College students Grace Swint and Shamona Thompson Ross talk about mental health. \u003ccite>(Felicia Mello/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a 2016 \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/NCHA-II-SPRING-2016-HSACCC-REFERENCE-GROUP-DATA-REPORT-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">survey\u003c/a> of 10 California community colleges, more than half of students said they had felt overwhelming anxiety at some time in the past year, with 39 percent saying they had been so depressed it was hard to function. One in 10 said they had seriously considered suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the Legislature budgeted $4.5 million for new mental health programs at community colleges — but only 15 of the state’s 114 colleges will receive the competitive grants of up to $300,000 each.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American River College psychology professor Peg Scott says every week, two to three students approach her with mental health problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see PTSD, bipolar, eating disorders and schizophrenia, but depression and anxiety are the two that really eat up our kids,” Scott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no counseling center at her Sacramento County community college, which has two nurses for more than 30,000 students. So Scott refers students to a county crisis center several miles away. The center provides transportation, Scott says, but it’s just not practical for her to send them every student who needs help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students need somewhere on campus to go when they have a panic attack or are just having a really bad day,” Scott said. “Finals are coming up and they need support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has a dedicated funding source for mental health programs: In 2004, voters passed Proposition 63, a 1 percent tax on incomes of more than $1 million a year. Counties can decide how to use most of the money, and a \u003ca href=\"http://www.auditor.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2017-117.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">recent state audit\u003c/a> found that hundreds of millions have gone unspent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some lawmakers want the state to set priorities for how counties should spend those funds. Under a bipartisan \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1004\" target=\"_blank\">measure\u003c/a> also pending in the Legislature, counties would have to use some of the money for one of three types of mental health programs, including college counseling, or justify to the state why they did not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2933\" target=\"_blank\">proposal\u003c/a> would require that every county social-services agency have a liaison to help professors like Scott send students for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s last major effort to upgrade college counseling failed in 2016, when Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would have set up a campus mental health trust fund, citing its lack of a specific price tag or funding source. But Proposition 63 has had some effect. UC, CSU and community colleges were all able to use some of its proceeds to launch campaigns to raise awareness of mental health issues and suicide prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And students say it’s become easier to talk about mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel like there’s more of an open discussion of it,” said Courtney Cooper, president of the Student Senate for California Community Colleges. “I had a panic attack before class the other day ... and this other girl was like, ‘Oh, I deal with anxiety, too.’ I didn’t feel like I was the only one or that anyone in class was going to judge me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students on a number of campuses have started mental health conferences and formed chapters of \u003ca href=\"http://www.activeminds.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Active Minds\u003c/a>, a student-run advocacy organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott’s students decided not to wait for their college to provide counseling. They’re partnering with the National Alliance on Mental Illness to create peer support groups for struggling students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The need is there, and our students are so forward-looking that they recognize it,” Scott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>CALmatters.org\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em> \u003cem>This story and other higher education coverage are supported by the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so much the age when serious mental illness manifests itself, and here we have these institutions that could absolutely be identifying this early on,” said Deborah Anderluh, a spokesperson for the Steinberg Institute, which lobbies for more funding for mental health treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only eight of the Cal State system’s 23 campuses meet the standard of one counselor per 1,000 to 1,500 students set by the International Association of Counseling Services — the national accreditor for campus counseling centers — according to a survey by the student association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many community colleges don’t have a counseling center at all, or rely on graduate student interns to provide care. The University of California system is in the midst of a five-year hiring push to add counselors on its campuses, funded by student fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of college students seeking counseling on campuses nationwide grew five times faster than enrollment between 2009 and 2015, according to the Center for Collegiate Mental Health, a national consortium. Depression and anxiety were the biggest problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/8e7e2aac-98b6-44c7-b9c6-2c0922e23178?src=embed\" title=\"Demand for college mental health services is growing nationwide\" width=\"800\" height=\"700\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saba Ansari, a third-year politics major at CSU Fullerton, said panic attacks during her freshman year often kept her from sleeping through the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have very traditional, conservative parents who wanted me to become a scientist,” Ansari said. But she wanted to go into politics. And the polarized atmosphere that accompanied President Trump’s election exacerbated the social pressures she was already experiencing as a Muslim woman, Ansari said. \"I was having this identity crisis and feeling really threatened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until starting on-campus therapy, Ansari said, that she realized she wasn’t the only one dealing with those challenges. Her grades improved, and she took on more responsibility in student government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when she recommended the campus counseling center to a friend who was grieving after a death in the family, said Ansari, the friend couldn’t get an appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center staff said, “‘We’re all filled up; can you call back in two weeks?’” Ansari said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislators are considering a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB968\" target=\"_blank\">proposal\u003c/a> to ease that backlog by requiring public campuses to have one full-time counselor for every 1,500 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve put a lot of emphasis on how to get students to graduate on time,” state Sen. Richard Pan, a Sacramento Democrat and the bill’s author, told CALmatters. “One of the barriers is mental health issues, and we should be helping [students] overcome them. Otherwise, we’re not maximizing our investment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We see PTSD, bipolar, eating disorders and schizophrenia, but depression and anxiety are the two that really eat up our kids.'\u003ccite>Peg Scott, American River College psychology professor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>CSU and the community colleges would have to hire hundreds of new counselors to meet the ratio Pan is proposing, according to a legislative analysis. The community college system has more than 7,000 students for every counselor systemwide, according to the analysis, while CSU has more than 2,000. Staffing at the University of California is more robust, with about 1,100 students per counselor overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the university systems has taken a position on the bill. But Denise Bevly, CSU’s director of wellness, questioned whether mandating staff levels for counselors was the best way to improve care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One-on-one counseling may not be it for all students,” she said. Some issues might be better addressed through prevention and early intervention such as “a stress-management workshop, or a peer counseling group, or a yoga class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s still a gap, if we’re honest,” between the increasing demand for counseling services and the supply, Bevly said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The schools are doing what they can with the resources they have, she added. 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One in 10 said they had seriously considered suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the Legislature budgeted $4.5 million for new mental health programs at community colleges — but only 15 of the state’s 114 colleges will receive the competitive grants of up to $300,000 each.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American River College psychology professor Peg Scott says every week, two to three students approach her with mental health problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see PTSD, bipolar, eating disorders and schizophrenia, but depression and anxiety are the two that really eat up our kids,” Scott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no counseling center at her Sacramento County community college, which has two nurses for more than 30,000 students. So Scott refers students to a county crisis center several miles away. The center provides transportation, Scott says, but it’s just not practical for her to send them every student who needs help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students need somewhere on campus to go when they have a panic attack or are just having a really bad day,” Scott said. “Finals are coming up and they need support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has a dedicated funding source for mental health programs: In 2004, voters passed Proposition 63, a 1 percent tax on incomes of more than $1 million a year. Counties can decide how to use most of the money, and a \u003ca href=\"http://www.auditor.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2017-117.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">recent state audit\u003c/a> found that hundreds of millions have gone unspent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some lawmakers want the state to set priorities for how counties should spend those funds. Under a bipartisan \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1004\" target=\"_blank\">measure\u003c/a> also pending in the Legislature, counties would have to use some of the money for one of three types of mental health programs, including college counseling, or justify to the state why they did not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2933\" target=\"_blank\">proposal\u003c/a> would require that every county social-services agency have a liaison to help professors like Scott send students for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s last major effort to upgrade college counseling failed in 2016, when Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would have set up a campus mental health trust fund, citing its lack of a specific price tag or funding source. But Proposition 63 has had some effect. 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They’re anonymously posting mean and derogatory comments about themselves on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child psychologist \u003ca href=\"http://denverchildtherapy.com/about-us/sheryl-ziegler/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sheryl Gonzalez-Ziegler\u003c/a> of Denver says it’s a growing problem among teens whom she counsels. One recent client, an adolescent girl, told Gonzalez-Ziegler that she anonymously cyberbullied herself because, as a gay teen, she felt vulnerable and exposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She set up ghost accounts on Instagram and posted mean comments about herself, saying things like, ‘I think you’re creepy and gay’ and ‘Don’t sit next to me again,’ ” Ziegler says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She said these things because she feared being mocked by her peers,” the psychologist explains. “She thought their teasing wouldn’t be so bad if she beat them to the punch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a survey \u003ca href=\"http://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(17)30313-0/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published\u003c/a> late last year in the \u003cem>Journal of Adolescent Health\u003c/em>, teens are bullying themselves online as a way to manage feelings of sadness and self-hatred and to gain attention from their friends. For the study, 5,593 middle and high school students from across the U.S., ages 12 to 17, completed a series of questionnaires that asked about their experiences with digital self-harm and cyberbullying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”HCX9vH8V4cXCVb46T0BO94RkguEqSp86″]”We were alarmed to learn that 6 percent of the youth who participated in our study engaged in some form of digital self-harm,” says \u003ca href=\"http://hinduja.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sameer Hinduja\u003c/a>, co-author of the study and a professor of criminology at Florida Atlantic University. He is also the co-director of the \u003ca href=\"https://cyberbullying.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cyberbullying Research Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hinduja and a colleague found that more than half the teens who cyberbullied themselves had done so more than once. When asked why they had participated in this behavior, the teens said things like, “I already felt bad about myself, and I wanted to make myself feel worse” and “I wanted to see if someone was really my friend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Psychologists have seen inklings of this type of self-aggression before. In a smaller, \u003ca href=\"https://webhost.bridgew.edu/marc/DIGITAL%20SELF%20HARM%20report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2012\u003c/a> study of 617 high school freshmen, researchers found that 9 percent of the teens had bullied themselves online. Teens who participated in that study reported harming themselves as a way to encourage others to worry about them, to prove how “tough” they were or to get an adult’s attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”4WLViXQpKTG5m375AY6olZ1s9VjHu8hm”]”Because teens’ online and offline worlds overlap, digital self-harm is a concern for some youth, making online self-harm an emerging area of research,” says, \u003ca href=\"https://cehs.unl.edu/edpsych/faculty/susan-swearer/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Susan Swearer\u003c/a>, a professor of psychology at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln who also studies bullying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2664031\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statistical analysis\u003c/a> by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of more than a decade’s worth of emergency room visits in the U.S. suggests that since 2009, the number of girls ages 10 to 14 years who are physically harming themselves has been rising steadily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.apa.org/monitor/2015/07-08/who-self-injures.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the American Psychological Association\u003c/a>, teens who physically injure themselves often struggle with depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or difficulties with emotional regulation. 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"content": "\u003cp>Denise Berry remembers the day a mortar blew up part of the hospital in Iraq where she was working as a U.S. Army combat medic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The explosion claimed a person in a portable toilet next to her, blew up her truck, and made the ambulance she was working underneath, doing a maintenance check, bounce on top of her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am lucky to be alive,\" Berry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She woke up a while later, unsure how long she’d been unconscious. Berry suffered memory loss related to traumatic brain injury, and later, symptoms of PTSD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After demobilizing and leaving the service, Berry waited. Despite worsening mental health effects from the bombing and her time working in the high-stress environments of emergency rooms and prisons in Iraq, she hesitated to reach out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The resources didn’t come to you. So if you weren’t a very proactive person, you weren’t going to get any help,\" she said. \"And I would have to say that’s for most veterans coming back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same thing that made her successful on deployment — the strength to keep it together and handle any obstacle that came her way — motivated Berry to try to tough out the disturbing dreams and anxiety alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also wondered why her difficulties deserved attention ahead of scores of wounded service members. 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Berry worked in three different prisons in Iraq, on one ambulance team, and in an emergency room. She joined the army in 2007. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Denise Berry )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Opening up combat jobs to women in the military is bringing a greater need for resources to treat the trauma and mental health challenges that echo after service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the National Institutes of Health has found women veterans underutilize VA health care compared with men. It says many report delaying getting care, and that when they do receive treatment, it's inadequate. Other women aren't seeking help at all, according to the government researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of nonprofits is testing a new outreach program in Los Angeles County, dubbed Women Vets on Point, which aims to overcome the barriers keeping female veterans from connecting with services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say there are many possible reasons women don't avail themselves of veteran-specific resources. They may not think of themselves as part of a veteran community that’s dominated by men. Parenthood duties often fall to women and make it difficult to find time to reach out or travel for care. And many women have experienced sexual assault or harassment while serving, an experience that alienates them from military institutions that may have protected their assailants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VA has \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/07/11/62418/va-working-to-make-female-veterans-more-welcome-vi/\">made strides\u003c/a> in welcoming the growing number of female veterans and addressing their unique health needs. But for some, the system still feels like a testosterone-only space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Male veterans, their style of banter and communication is very different,\" said Dr. Miatta Snetter, a clinical psychologist with the housing and services nonprofit U.S.VETS. \"Sometimes it can be triggering for female veterans, and they don’t feel comfortable being in that kind of an environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S.VETS and Education Development Center (EDC), a nonprofit research organization, are partnering to develop and test Women Vets on Point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program is meant to specifically serve women veterans’ needs by overcoming barriers to care, and connect veterans with a range of services in their community, including mental health care, substance abuse treatment, child care, professional development and educational resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those services is a U.S.VETS program called Outside the Wire, in which Snetter works with student veterans providing counseling and mental health services on college campuses in Orange County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’d like more women to knock on her office door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Oftentimes even in civilian populations, females are more of the nurturers. They’re more apt to take care of others,\" she said. \"They see the problems and concerns that others have, and [don’t] really seek help for themselves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of its pilot program, Women Vets on Point is building a network of partners that have resources for veterans, and will offer small grants to help improve or tailor that care for women vets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are a lot of clinicians who would love to be able to provide services to female veterans,\" Snetter said. \"They don’t know how.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest outreach tool will be a new website, ideally a one-stop shop for female veterans to find resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To educate, to connect people, to help people choose what they want to do next in their own time, when they’re ready,\" said Rebecca Stoeckle with EDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EDC's research has shown peer-to-peer encouragement is an important motivator for female veterans seeking help, so they're tapping interviews and focus groups to develop a site women will feel comfortable sharing with their social network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With these goals in mind, Stoeckle said the biggest challenge is to restore trust in the help that’s available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some women veterans feel the system has let them down. They weren’t taken seriously when they suffered mental health difficulties, or the effects of military sexual harassment and assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Denise Berry finally went to the VA to address her own psychological wounds of war, she felt her doctors saw a fresh-faced young woman—not a veteran recovering from war-zone trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The first psychiatrist I went to kind of rolled their eyes at me, and said, ‘You know, I really don’t know why you’re wasting my time, because there’s nothing wrong with you,' \" Berry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to do better than that,\" Stoeckle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an initial testing period, the developers of Women Vets on Point want to expand the program nationwide. 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Berry remembered thinking, \"How could I possibly receive benefits when this person over here is dealing with the ramifications of Agent Orange, or lost a leg?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11632414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/178389-full.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11632414\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/178389-full.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"878\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/178389-full.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/178389-full-160x137.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/178389-full-800x686.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/178389-full-1020x875.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/178389-full-960x823.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/178389-full-240x206.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/178389-full-375x322.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/178389-full-520x446.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Army combat medic Denise Berry at Fort Hunter Liggett in 2011. Berry worked in three different prisons in Iraq, on one ambulance team, and in an emergency room. She joined the army in 2007. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Denise Berry )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Opening up combat jobs to women in the military is bringing a greater need for resources to treat the trauma and mental health challenges that echo after service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the National Institutes of Health has found women veterans underutilize VA health care compared with men. It says many report delaying getting care, and that when they do receive treatment, it's inadequate. Other women aren't seeking help at all, according to the government researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of nonprofits is testing a new outreach program in Los Angeles County, dubbed Women Vets on Point, which aims to overcome the barriers keeping female veterans from connecting with services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say there are many possible reasons women don't avail themselves of veteran-specific resources. They may not think of themselves as part of a veteran community that’s dominated by men. Parenthood duties often fall to women and make it difficult to find time to reach out or travel for care. And many women have experienced sexual assault or harassment while serving, an experience that alienates them from military institutions that may have protected their assailants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VA has \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/07/11/62418/va-working-to-make-female-veterans-more-welcome-vi/\">made strides\u003c/a> in welcoming the growing number of female veterans and addressing their unique health needs. But for some, the system still feels like a testosterone-only space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Male veterans, their style of banter and communication is very different,\" said Dr. Miatta Snetter, a clinical psychologist with the housing and services nonprofit U.S.VETS. \"Sometimes it can be triggering for female veterans, and they don’t feel comfortable being in that kind of an environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S.VETS and Education Development Center (EDC), a nonprofit research organization, are partnering to develop and test Women Vets on Point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program is meant to specifically serve women veterans’ needs by overcoming barriers to care, and connect veterans with a range of services in their community, including mental health care, substance abuse treatment, child care, professional development and educational resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those services is a U.S.VETS program called Outside the Wire, in which Snetter works with student veterans providing counseling and mental health services on college campuses in Orange County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’d like more women to knock on her office door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Oftentimes even in civilian populations, females are more of the nurturers. They’re more apt to take care of others,\" she said. \"They see the problems and concerns that others have, and [don’t] really seek help for themselves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of its pilot program, Women Vets on Point is building a network of partners that have resources for veterans, and will offer small grants to help improve or tailor that care for women vets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are a lot of clinicians who would love to be able to provide services to female veterans,\" Snetter said. \"They don’t know how.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest outreach tool will be a new website, ideally a one-stop shop for female veterans to find resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To educate, to connect people, to help people choose what they want to do next in their own time, when they’re ready,\" said Rebecca Stoeckle with EDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EDC's research has shown peer-to-peer encouragement is an important motivator for female veterans seeking help, so they're tapping interviews and focus groups to develop a site women will feel comfortable sharing with their social network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With these goals in mind, Stoeckle said the biggest challenge is to restore trust in the help that’s available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some women veterans feel the system has let them down. 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"content": "\u003cp>People who smoke marijuana reported having more sexual intercourse than non-users, according to a new study conducted by urologists at the \u003ca href=\"http://med.stanford.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stanford University School of Medicine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results were modest but statistically significant: Non-users said they had engaged in sexual intercourse between five and six times in the previous month. Daily pot smokers reported having intercourse around seven times over that same period. The frequency was in-between for people who smoked marijuana less often, on a weekly or monthly basis: they reported having sex more than abstainers, but less than daily users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was surprised,” said\u003ca href=\"https://stanfordhealthcare.org/doctors/e/michael-eisenberg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Dr. Michael Eisenberg\u003c/a>, the study’s senior author and an assistant professor of urology at Stanford University Medical Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The daily users for example, compared to the never users, reported about 20 more sexual encounters a year. So I think that is a significant difference,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the first study to look at the connection between pot smoking and sex at the population level. To tease out the association, Eisenberg and his co-author Dr. Andrew Sun used survey data drawn from more than 50,000 Americans between the ages of 25 and 45.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data comes from the National Center for Health Statistics at the CDC. Since that survey does not ask about homosexual encounters, the results only apply to straight men and women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eisenberg decided to do the study because more of his patients had been asking him if smoking marijuana could be contributing to their sexual difficulties. He had previously told them it might, and to abstain just in case. He was basing his assumptions on research about the negative vascular effects of cigarette smoking. In addition, some past studies and case reports have indicated heavy marijuana use may be associated with erectile dysfunction or depressed sperm count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now Eisenberg is rethinking his advice, at least for some patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If somebody is using marijuana to help them for chronic back pain or something like that, there may be other interventions that we can think about targeting,” he said. “Rather than telling them they have to stop, otherwise their sex life is doomed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For \u003ca href=\"http://sexandthesoma.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Holly Richmond\u003c/a>, a sex therapist, the study results are “pretty remarkable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her offices in Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, Richmond has seen mixed results when her clients use marijuana. Some couples tell her that they have more sex when they use pot, but others have less sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said those differences are probably attributable to how much pot someone smokes, instead of how often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Too much can lead to lethargy and really checking out, which does not facilitate [emotional] connection at all, and definitely doesn't encourage sexual activity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eisenberg cautioned against drawing unwarranted conclusions from the study, and cited the old statistical adage “correlation does not equal causation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This doesn’t mean that if you want to have more sex you should start smoking marijuana,” he said. “That’s definitely not what this data supports.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study can’t explain what factors are driving the association between pot use and sex, said Dr. Igor Grant, chair of psychiatry and director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cmcr.ucsd.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research\u003c/a> at the University of California San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said one explanation is that people who use marijuana —or are willing to admit marijuana use in a survey —are more likely to report their sexual encounters, or remember more of them. Grant said marijuana users are also sensation seekers, and may be more driven to have sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Drug use is one type of sensation-seeking behavior, and obviously sex is another,” Grant said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eisenberg agreed that personality and other behaviors could be a factor, but if that was the case, he would expect to see different results from different demographic groups. For example, young and single respondents might be more willing and able to engage in risky or sensation-seeking behavior, when compared to married people with children. But the results held across all categories, including race and ethnicity, educational level, income level, religious affiliation, and family status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For every group, the more marijuana use that they reported, the more sex they reported as well. 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