The Transdiagnostic Dimensional Approach: Another Way of Understanding Mental Illness
Emerging research suggests that there is a new, more accurate approach to understanding mental illness.
Search results for: Dual Diagnosis: Substance Abuse and Mental Illness
Dispelling Myths on Mental Illness
A list of myths about mental illness and the facts that prove the myths wrong.
Converging Paths, Equal Ground: The Promise of Mental Health Parity
Physical and mental health services have long been unequal, both in the delivery of care and in the public conversation. Yet the true promise of parity means moving beyond mere compliance to equal, accessible and integrated healthcare.
2021 Virtual NAMICon Sessions
Michelle Williams, Grammy Award-winning singer and former Destiny’s Child member and author of Checking In: How Getting Real about Depression Saved My Life — and Can Save Yours, speaks candidly about her mental health journey alongside Dr. Christine M. Crawford, NAMI’s Associate Medical Director. She discusses the lessons she learned about prioritizing her own […]
NAMI’s Interviews With Danielle Steel & Kay Jamison Provide Advance Glimpse of Tuesday Hearing
On February 8, the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health, Human Resources, Education & Related Agencies will hold a hearing on suicide prevention that will include testimony from best-selling author Danielle Steel and Professor Kay Redfield Jamison, author of several academic and popular books on mental illness.
Mental Health Awareness: It Is Important
[…] important. Now, some statistics: According to a study conducted by Harvard Medical School, 26% of adults in the United States have an anxiety, mood, impulse control, or substance disorder in a given year. That’s one in four adults in the United States. 22% of those disorders were classified as serious; 37% were classified as […]
NAMI CEO Addresses Labor–HHS–Education Subcommittee on Appropriations
NAMI CEO, Mary Giliberti makes a statement to address mental health appropriations to the Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Speaking with Former Surgeon General David Satcher, a Leader in Mental Health
Nearly 15 years after his landmark report on mental health, Dr. Satcher's work continues to have an impact on the country's mental health.
Understanding Dual Diagnosis
As intuitive as the term “dual diagnosis” may seem, it actually doesn’t mean having two mental health conditions. Dual diagnosis is a term used when someone experiences a mental illness and a substance use disorder simultaneously. Learn more here.
NAMI Challenges WA State Law in Federal Court: Transfer of Mentally Ill Patients from Hospitals to Prisons
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and NAMI Washington State have joined a lawsuit in federal court challenging a law signed by Governor Chris Gregoire on March 31 that allows the Washington Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) to move persons found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI) from state hospitals […]