News: Mental Health Care

CSSW Lecturer Amy Kapadia has extensive clinical experience within the field of serious mental illness. Her research interests range from…

Danielle Sheeler (in red T-shirt) leads a creative writing workshop for teens at Writopia Lab. (Photo taken with permission.) At…

Children of China’s many internal migrants have a hard time adjusting. Two alumni and a current student have co-written a…

By Michael B. Friedman There is much to like about Arthur Kleinman’s brilliant work, but what I have always liked…

Peer support among people with severe mental illness (SMI) is a practice with a longstanding tradition that is increasingly on…

Columbia University School of Social Work (CSSW) and Cohen Veterans Network (CVN) have entered into a partnership to develop the…

Mental illness is back in the news with the revelation that a young German pilot deliberately brought down Germanwings Flight 9525 in the French Alps on March 24, killing all 150 on board. This report on a clinical ground rounds talk by Dr. Rachel Pruchno provides a useful framework for some of the issues under debate.

In the United States, more than half of people with serious mental illness do not get treatment at all. Perhaps if we addressed this crisis, we might also end up with fewer homicides, argues Adjunct Associate Professor Michael Friedman.

Welcome to Part 2 of our podcast featuring two DSM experts, Drs. Michael First and Janet Williams, talking about the implications of DSM-5 for social workers who deliver mental health services.

The impact of the release of the DSM-5 last year is still being felt. In this podcast, two DSM experts, Drs. Michael First and Janet Williams, discuss the key changes that appear in this edition and their implications for social workers in mental health fields.