Washburn Center for Children: Where ‘the wild things’ are understood
As they prepare to occupy their new space, Dr. Anne Gearity and others reflect on their path to a deeper understanding of severely at-risk children.
A longtime reporter and editor at the Star Tribune, Sarah T. Williams later worked in communications for Planned Parenthood and the Hazelden Foundation.
As they prepare to occupy their new space, Dr. Anne Gearity and others reflect on their path to a deeper understanding of severely at-risk children.
As he researched his book, author Jack El-Hai found his own assumptions about the “Nazi personality” being tested.
With the hope of helping others and reducing stigma, KMOJ’s Sanni Brown-Adefope is telling the story of her family’s experience with mental illness.
The governor denies suggesting that mothers of children with seizure disorders get the drug illegally, and says it’s unwise to bypass standard medical protocols.
A Woodbury mother whose son has epilepsy said Dayton suggested that she obtain marijuana illegally. “I cannot, and I do not, advocate breaking the law,” Dayton said in a statement.
A new book points out flaws in research, questions the efficacy of prevailing treatment therapies, raises an eyebrow at “rehab” and rejects the “disease” construct.
Traci Hackmann was the middle child of 15 kids in a double-blended family in rural Iowa.
Just like any other kids, they’re intelligent, funny, sometimes squirrelly and borderline sassy, and always incredibly thoughtful and deep.
A small, passionate group calls for more treatment resources, insurance equity, voter reforms, and immunity for good Samaritans.
Some people came to give back, others came to push for change, and still others for both reasons.
Participants are held to account by a team of judges, prosecutors, public defenders, probation officers and community volunteers.
You can see for yourself during a free screening of the documentary on Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation’s social media website.
Citing burdensome conditions and neighbors’ reactions, they’ll take their business elsewhere.
She’s a major player and advocate of the state’s proposed medical marijuana legislation; he’s the country’s most outspoken opponent on the issue.
The mayor and council members vote unanimously to rescind a vote to deny a permit to a mental-health day treatment facility, buying more time for discussion.
It’s both not as bad and much worse than what you see on the big screen.
Golden Valley neighbors find themselves divided by fear and outrage.
Some psychoanalytic theory is very much alive and at work in the world, even as “the couch” disappears from modern therapeutic practice.
The women’s paths to recovery and ability to carry their pregnancies to term depend on careful, evidence-based approaches.
Attorney General Lori Swanson said that in spite of stronger laws, the battle is still “a game of Whac-A-Mole.”
By Sarah T. Williams
April 11, 2014