Word: mental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...settled into painful routine. At the Community Counseling Center, counselors who helped after the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building were called on again following last week's tornadoes. The American Red Cross, which has more than 80 counselors in the area, put its 2,000 mental-health officials on alert...
...workers, psychologists, psychiatrists and clergy who are invariably on hand at disasters to lend empathic support. If local resources feel the strain, the Red Cross, Salvation Army, National Organization for Victim Assistance and a host of other nonprofit organizations send in volunteers. During presidentially declared disasters, the Center for Mental Health Services contributes federal funds for counseling. It spent $10 million last year...
...serious about stopping the violence and helping our children, we as adults need to erase the stigma that prevents our kids from getting the help they need for their mental health. If we knew a child had a broken arm, we would take that child to an emergency room. And if we know a child is depressed or alienated, we need to take emergency action and stay involved with the problem. One of the young killers in Colorado is reported to have once been prescribed an antidepressant, but we don't know if he had stopped taking it or what...
...Vice President's wife is a longtime advocate of mental-health reform
...confab's main product, determined in advance by White House staffers, is the kickoff of a new surgeon general's study of violence in America. Building on similar studies done in 1972 and 1985, it will take a look at the roles of popular culture, peer pressure, mental illness and the availability of guns in teen shootings, and doubtless won't be completed until the issue (and this President) have long since moved on. President Clinton and his aspiring veep are caught between defenders of the First Amendment (the Hollywood types who donate to the Democrats) and those...