Federal elections can act as a launchpad or watershed for major health reform. However, despite mental ill-health being the most potent of all disease categories in its contribution to disability, impact on the economy and as a major cause of premature death, it is typically the bridesmaid at election time. Promises of funding always feature […]

Every day, communities across the country grapple with the shortage of psychiatric treatment beds. Gaps in treatment options differ place to place, and all psychiatric beds are not created equal. State statutes, local policies, procedures, and financing all dictate who can access what type of bed, when, and for how long. Bed types include public […]

Wondrous are the ways of Washington. In a single day, the federal government officially reduced the number of people with schizophrenia in the United States from 2.8 million to 750,000. With a change of the National Institute of Mental Health website in 2017, two million people with schizophrenia simply disappeared. The 2.8 million estimate, or […]

Recent decades have seen growing empirical research in wisdom as a complex, trait-based psychological characteristic. Wisdom has been shown to possess individual and societal benefits through associations with health and well-being, but it has not yet been evaluated in people with schizophrenia (PwS). In the current study, we administered a widely used, validated 3-dimensional wisdom […]