Jeff Ciak

None of these laws passed a single state legislature until five years ago, and now:

Interpretation Issues With the Patient Health Questionnaire Instructions This survey study assesses whether responses to the Patient Health Questionnaire reflect symptom frequency and severity.

1/n Out today in @jamapsychiatry.com: Interpretation Issues With the Patient Health Questionnaire Instructions. We find troubling variability in whether people think they should respond based on the frequency of the Sx or the frequency of being bothered by the Sx.
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Mer, great point and your mentorship really helped show me how to do Universal Design well.

I love reviewing most accomodation letters and being able to say this course already does almost everything here because it helps all the other students who can't get formal accommodations.

We need to be able to see that the line "accommodations have gone too far" is an expression of the ableist notion that disabled students do not belong in higher ed. Its fundamentally an anxiety about the fact that disabled students get an "advantage" over abled students.

Heartbroken to hear of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social ‘s transition to be a crip anscestor AND feeling so honored to have been alive in the time as this brilliant human, and gotten to learn from her.

May her memory continue to always be a blessing.

Photo of a memorial plaque at Tiergartenstraße 4 in Berlin. The inscription reads: “Honor to the forgotten victims. At this site, at Tiergartenstraße 4, the first National Socialist mass murder was organized starting in 1940, named after this address: Aktion T4. From 1939 to 1945, almost 200,000 defenseless people were killed. Their lives were described as ‘unworthy of life,’ their murder called euthanasia. They died in the gas chambers of Grafeneck, Brandenburg, Hartheim, Pirna, Bernburg, and Hadamar; they died by firing squads, by deliberate starvation, and by poison. The perpetrators were scientists, doctors, nurses, members of the judiciary, the police, and of the health and labor administrations. The victims were poor, desperate, defiant, or in need of help. They came from psychiatric clinics and children’s hospitals, from nursing homes and welfare institutions, from military hospitals and camps. The number of victims was vast; the number of perpetrators convicted was very small.”

All new guest essay for the DVP by Shannon Pagdon:

“When coercion in care makes Kilmeade’s ‘just kill ’em’ thinkable”

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I am a doctoral student teaching a course on diversity, equity, and inclusion this fall. There are attempts to gut the course. I cannot be more clear: any educator who backs down now should never be allowed to claim commitments to anti-oppressive, anti-racist, or liberatory pedagogy.

Trump’s new Executive Order directs states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes - National Homelessness Law Center Trump’s new Executive Orders direct states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes (WASHINGTON, D.C - March 28th) Everybody needs a safe place to live. Across America, sky-high rents are…

BREAKING: Trump’s new Executive Order directs states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes. Criminalization doesn’t help anyone – we need housing and healthcare, not handcuffs and budget cuts. #HousingNotHandcuffs

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Great alblum. In the throes is also quite good. I'd rank Moreland alongside Isbell for currenly great songwriters.

Great article! Diagnostic overshadowing and stigma related to mental illness is all too common in healthcare.

UI grad student transfers after backlash over DEI presentation Marie Krebs, a graduate student in the University of Iowa’s School of Social Work, is leaving the university after facing disciplinary action for a presentation she and a classmate gave on diversity, ...

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I will message you. I don't know what level of detail is best to post here.

I was concerned about this. I have an R36 dissertation grant application in and recieved an email yesterday that it would be considered alongside Fs in march so I thought we might be in the clear.

NIH is removing F31-diversity applications from the review panels. This isn't equality but active discrimination. Shame, shame, shame on NIH.

Bumping this up for the morning people. The National Academies of Science have kindly put together resources for scientists and researchers who find themselves being threatened or harassed.

Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.

“any grant activity that promotes the use of DEIA principles or frameworks” — how is this even possible in research focused on vulnerable / multi-marginalized communities?

Anyone out there in #NIH funding world have thoughts on diversity supplements & training mechanisms? Are they dead in the water?

Put in an R36 dissertation grant for a grounded theory study of patient-provider communication among people with smi in primary care today. Having never written a grant before, I now recognize how much work an nih grant is.

I’m looking for academic researchers who research mental health and also (like me) have lived experience of mental ill health! Please share and get in touch if that’s you ❤️#academicsky @academic-chatter.bsky.social @mhrincubator.bsky.social @nihrspcr.bsky.social

NIDA is launching a working group to the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse (NACDA) made up of people with lived or living experience (PWLLE) with drug use. Learn more at the link. #AddictionSci #DrugSky

Medicaid May Face Big Cuts and Work Requirements Republicans in Congress are eyeing cuts to Medicaid, which could threaten health coverage for tens of millions of poor Americans.

Huge implications for older people, disabled people, and people living in poverty!

Medicaid May Face Big Cuts and Work Requirements www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/h...

My vote is for the white alblum. Hard days night is a bit too far on the pop side.

How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk United used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due...

NEW: UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate.

ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs.

Here’s what we found.

Thank you for making this. Super helpful. Maybe there should be a MH lived experience research starter pack. Thoughts?

I made a suicidology/NSSI starter pack! Share and comment below to be added.

go.bsky.app/MgL9J1j

That's an interesting story.

I figured I should introduce myself given new followers: I am a third year PhD student at Virginia Commonwealth University with lived experience and clinical experience with smi. I study physical health disparities, crisis care, and lived experience involvement in research.

Can you please add me to the starter pack? I am a phd student at vcu. Thank you