and from the mental health community, there were 6 million people who were served by mental health authorities across the nation, and roughly 21 percent, or about, of the 6 million, were employed. what does that tell us? what types of challenges, david, do these individuals present as they approach the employment marketplace? well, that's telling me that, actually, most people that are, that are served by my agency, which provides welfare or tanf services or homeless services, do not have mental health or substance abuse problems. there- but the percentage is a lot higher than the general population. so probably 20 percent of the people that we're serving in tanf have substance abuse problems and a similar type for the homeless programs. but, when they have both substance abuse and poverty issues, their problems are much, much higher and really need a much more concentrated effort. yeah, for them to get help. and, neli, for, for individuals who are dealing with substance use disorder, let's take them first. what do they present as they come into the marketplace? the underlying issue of drug an

mental health disorders can be diagnosed as early as 14. often we are seeing signs as early as 11 and 12 that trigger that. so, it's very important so that we can prevent problems before they begin. absolutely. nancy, within the context of family again, what is the impact on the children of families where the adult may have an addiction problem or they may have a mental health problem? i think it varies based on which of those kinds of families you're talking about. i think it's important for us to think about the larger population of children. and we know that actually about 8.3 million kids in our country live with a parent who is an alcoholic or needs treatment for illicit drug abuse. that translates to 11 percent. think about an elementary school classroom, that's three kids in every elementary school classroom. that's sort of mindboggling to think about how many kids are affected by this particular addiction or illicit drug use in their family. so when we think about the ways that kids adapt to that, and they cope with that, we can beg

if a veteran doesn't seek proper mental health treatment for their mental health or substance abuse, worst case scenario is death. we start using to escape things that you don't want to think about it. and all of a sudden, you're right back here and you got nothing but time to think. and the last thing that you wanna do is think about it. they can go to the va-it's free and it's unlimited. i've seen veterans who came back, they had everything going for 'em, but they didn't get treatments. and the next time i saw them, they were living in their sister's basement, no job, no money, no wife. take your early effective date and iu claim and we'll see where you, we can go from that. so, what we do is try to identify what type of mental disorder they have. once we get them identified, then we send them to the necessary places, va medical centers to get a diagnosis, and then we help them with their claim to establish benefits for mental disorders. counselor out there said that it's not actually a light at the end of the tunnel, it's a candle in the middle of the tunnel and you've got to go g

but maybe they're bringing their expertise from substance abuse or mental health and the final element is the family or the individual chooses who their primary case manager is going to be and then we all support both that family and that primary case manager. excellent. and, peggy, in, in terms of, you see the whole realm of it. you were just saying that earlier, during the break, that you deal not only with the individual but with the family. and what things are the most successful, in your view, in terms of retention of good employees? because, you know, as, as we were noting before, individuals that are in recovery, or individuals that have a problem, that need to go to treatment, are individuals that are, i suspect, very valuable to, to the employer. absolutely. and what, what i think is the most important is that they develop support networks. both with the 12-step programs, as well as an eap counselor, and the fact that i am in recovery adds a little bit more, that type of support to continually help them to be able to move forward. university of maryland medical system, in the

he can have mental health issues. he can be on substance abuse and i can still see him and say, "you can still be what you want to be in spite of that." the collaborative have helped me and my family. they're still continuously helping me and my family. and the resources here, if a lot of other people knew about it, they would feel the same way i do. at far southeast family strengthening collaborative, we're here as a family and we treat you as a family when you come in. if your heart is there, you're willing to help the families, i think we can make a great impact in the ward 8 community. erica, talk a little bit about what you do and how families can access your services. so what i do is i am a family support specialist and what my program does is we provide peer engagement workers. we're all in recovery ourselves and we go out to the family and we talk with the mother and we really-we get on her level and we assess her needs and what the family needs and what we can do to help them continue in their recovery and we

what are the signs and symptoms of someone who, who has a mental illness, or who may have a mental health problem? and frankly, that is one of the things that the substance abuse and mental health services administration is pushing is that we really want people to become more knowledgeable about that through programs like mental health first aid, which is a wonderful, um, red cross-like, training program. in about 2 or 3 days, in which you become smart about what behavioral health conditions look like in humans and how they manifest themselves. a nd where is this program manifested? where is it offered? it's available through the national council of community behavioral health care or you can get training in it across your communities. they can get information about it from samhsa. and so, mental health first aid is the first thing because we are not taught growing up how to pay attention to our emotional health and our emotional well-being. we are taught about what to do about our physical health, a headache, a broken bone, but not about our emotions. so, the first thing is that families

i understand firsthand the scope of mental thomas and the threat that suicide poses to so many with mental illness, my sister being one. it is not always tied to mental illness, that is a big factor. we serve a broad diversity of the population -- we serve the military and are proud to do so and are close to everything you all talked about today -- we also serve the lower income of medicaid recipients at large fortune 500 corporations. everything from a suicidal sole to a depressed corporate executive to a low income schizophrenic or the populations research. today my focus is to talk about corporations. what we are focusing on corporate america's how to leverage the power of the workplace to create a culture of well-being. many of us -- i talked to some of you this morning -- are engaging in a culture of health. that is hugely important because of the obesity act -- epidemic and other things. we believe it is not just physical health but rather emotional well-being that needs to be addressed in the corporate workplace. i would argue that without the emotional well-being, you cannot have p

bradley karlin, national mental health director for psychotherapy and psychogeriatrics, office of mental health services, department of veterans affairs headquarters, washington, dc. kathryn, more than 2 million troops deployed to afghanistan and iraq. what are some of the behavioral health issues related to the returning vets that are there, the vets that are there, and the returning vets? i think all of us are paying great attention to the behavioral health issues of anyone who has been in combat. and, first of all, when we use the term "behavioral health," we generally are talking about a broad range of mental and emotional and substance abuse disorders and/or problems. we know that anyone who has been in combat will probably suffer from trauma and anyone who has been in a combat situation will have effects of that trauma. so, the first thing we really want to pay attention to is: how have the individuals who have served in combat absorbed that trauma and become resilient to that trauma? in addition, we are seeing a variety of behavioral adjustments having to do with post-traumatic st

but we had discovered, frankly, from our grantees, from our substance abuse and mental health grantees at the local level, that we did have individuals who were coming into community-based agencies and seeking help. so, the first thing we had to do is we had to recognize the fact that even the civilian agencies weren't asking people, "do you have a dd214, have you ever served in the military, have you ever been in combat?" do you want to explain the dd214? dd214 is the piece of paper that you get from the department of defense when you are, when you go off active duty and you retire. and so, the reality was that we needed to get the civilian providers thinking about this population and then directing them appropriately to va facilities and to tricare and to dod active-duty facilities, as appropriate. and then there are people who didn't want to go to those facilities or who needed care, and we saw them coming into our grantees through our family program, which was the issue about the family members, the one who's paying attention. so, we have grantees in our systems of care program, wh

that is where the mental kicks in. a lot of people said this seems like a fringe sport, a dangerous sport, potentially. you say it is probably safer than a lot of endurance sports. >> well, when i got into the sport at first, i had never even ridden a race bike. and that was in 2004. and i said you have to be absolutely crazy to do an ironman. i think triathlon is open to anybody, regardless of their background or physical ability. i didn't grow up with a platform of sporting excellence. you know, i was a casual runner. and i found that triathlon, i found it was something i was good at. what the team has shown me is that you can come from all backgrounds and go through the sporting journey and go on to achieve your goal. >> thank you so much for helping our team along. as you know, none of them have done a triathlon before. and very quickly, you also say rest is important. that makes sense, but in order to grow stronger, you have to rest. >> absolutely, of course you need to do the physical training, the swim biking an

that's all mental. and if the answer is yes to both of those, then you transcend the mental approach into action. you make a plan of action that can carry out what you now know, and you act on that plan. and then when you get feedback from that, you use the feedback to recognize the value of your efforts and to deepen those hardy attitudes of commitment, control, and challenge. in addition to such stress-reduction techniques, dr. wyatt believes it is important to learn to be quiet in a noisy world. gail wyatt: some people consider it meditation. some people consider it prayer. i don't care what people call it. we all need to do it, and we need to do it at some point and time at the beginning of the day, and whenever we're aware that we're under too much stress. many people have other ways of dealing with stress that work for them. louis hernandez: i truly believe that some source of activity-- physical activity-- really helps to void your system of those stressors. and even those chemicals that your bod

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whether it's mental health issues or substance use issues or bullying or any of that. wherever you come into contact with the system, that you can get to the right place and to folks who can support you. double trouble to me is "hey, we have two issues that we need to deal with but we don't have to work twice as hard." we can use some of the same coping skills and strategies to deal with both. absolutely. and i want to remind our audience that national recovery month is celebrated every september and we hope that if you're in this audience and you have heard what is said here, if you're a young person that has a problem, you can certainly call our hotline for help. if you're someone that's in recovery, you can certainly look towards recoverymonth.gov for information and connectedness with those that are in recovery and we really want the young people, young adults, and youth to really get more connected and find people that are similar that are doing a tremendous amount to reduce stigma and to continue to celebrate their recovery. thank you for being here, it was a gre

also the mental and physical health as well.ll, this weekend we're racing the nautica malibu triathlon, and all these people, i will tell you, have been transformed. >> my name is nancy, and i'm sending you this video on a really chilly november night here in afton, minnesota. >> reporter: it was nancy's mental health that made her submit that video. recently separated and now an empty nester, she was struggling. >> i am finding it really hard to generate the energy needed to get through the day. love to get some really good regular exercise. >> nancy is at the front of the pack. she's lost 20 pounds, regained her confidence, and hopes to finish the race in two hours and 17 minutes. when pastor glen keller, a truck driver by trade, sent in his video, he was 315 pounds. >> i'm at least 100 pounds overweight. i think the first thing i need to make a difference is. >> now is he down to 265. feels better than he has since his military days. denise lost her leg after a tragic accident. >> i have always prided myself on being a top no

it has to be that mentality. >> it is a way to control the prisoners. it takes the pressure off the guards and everybody else. they say we want to stop violence, but you promote a violence by segregating. when an individual comes, the first in the asking, where are you from? what is your nationality? that is how to divide and conquer. that is the way the united states is made up. that is how you work. north and south vietnam, for instance. they divide people so that the pressure will not be on them. that is how i see the system. i see it in prison, how they divide inmates. it is scary if inmates unite, and they do not like that. when i first come to prison, it will be a big thing if i went and sat with the blacks. it would be a big think if they caucasian sat with the asians. we only did that one time, where everybody got together, and we got what we wanted. when you unite, you can conquer. [applause] >> next question is for the commander. how can they community-based organization contact the task force for speaking engagements? >> if you call and ask t

there is the klaas phobia, mental breakdowns and those blood curdling screams. reporting from the front line of an american nightmare, abc's dan harris spends 48 hours in solitary confinement. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is a special edition of "nightline," no way out. september 20th, 2012. >> good evening, i'm bill weir. well, tonight, across this country, some 80,000 prisoners are locked in solitary confinement. prison reformers pushed it as a humane alternative to hanging, almost 200 years ago. but some modern reformers think it is pure torture. practice has led to congressional hearings, u.n. reports, inmate hunger strikes. to better understand the toll of forced solitude, abc's dan harris volunteered to spend 48 hours in the hole. >> reporter: i'm cuffed and stuffed in the back of a sheriff's vehicle. >> right in front of you. turn around, put your hands -- >> reporter: this is everybody's worst nightmare. >> come on this way, please. >> reporter: the fther we g

massachusetts mental health center, resident in psychiatrist, three years. u.s. army, pentagon major, two years. faculty appointments, harvard medical sister, assistant professor, four years. george washington medical school, associate medical professor, georgetown medical school psychiatry, 20 years and currently medical answers,medicy television program, host 8 years and currently. author, 36 articles, four monographs and 204 professional presentations on adult attention deficit disorder, depression, post traumatic stress disorder, psychopharmacology. hobbies, acting, singing, power walking. brian bowls doyle. >> on the words psychopharmacology, you say, ariel, the psycho pharmacologist is the new drug dealer, like a park avenue drug dealer. is that how people look upon psychopharmacology? >> that's what one of my sources said to me. that's how she views it. i think that's how some people -- they've taken their attitude that they would have had once towards street drugs and transferred it on to prescription pills. >> you mean, they were taking marijuana in high

the legal system, i can use this instead of psychiatrists to support or are not my client has a mental illness. they would be able to inform and make decisions about how these things should be used in the legal system. what about this guy? anthony hopkins. what does his brain look like? if your behavior is completely different, your brain is going to be different. women, you know that men have different behavior. mris are capable of telling you how this gender difference is manifest. we can also study people like him. i study individuals -- if you want to look at your spousal score on this, see me later. individuals have a profound inability to really appreciate -- they are extremely callous. let me give you my interpretation of how to understand this. do you feel any remorse for what you have done? almost everyone, right? at least on television. how many of you -- you look at the defendant and sometimes the defendant does not have a good answer to that question. how many of you can solve this equation? now you know how psychopath feels when he is asked about remorse. individuals who l

offer in terms of understanding individuals to buy a different personality disorders are problems or mental illness. your first client that you are studying is named brad. he has a normal iq, he has been divorced and remarried. he has no history of psychiatric illness. oddly, has worked as a correctional officer for a while. he has worked as a schoolteacher. 16 years ago, he hit his head and knocked himself unconscious. no kind of neurological events following that. for the last year, he has had some migraines. he started using pornography on the internet. he started soliciting sex from women working in massage parlors. he reports that he has a very high sex drive and conceals his behavior because he feels that it is wrong. there is a picture. [laughter] in 2010, he makes some subtle sexual advances to his stepdaughter. mom find out about this and brad is legally removed from the home and diagnosed as a pedophile. he is chemically castrated in treatment to try to reduce his sexual behavior. he is found guilty of child molestation and he is sent to a sexual addiction facility or jail. brad c

our mental and physical health is all connected.lness' can help us live longer lives that are better equipped to handle the stresses of life and recovery. the better we take care of our wellness, the better our physical health will be and the more successful our recovery journey will be as well. thank goodness that the the substance abuse and mental health service administration initiative promotes the conversation to reverse this horrible trend that not only affects individuals, but their families and friends as well as entire communities. personally, i have spent the last 27 glorious years overcoming clinical depression and heroin addiction. low self-esteem and trauma caused by teens rape and abuse of relationships. my journey to recovery is not easy. but i keep moving forward with faith and confidence, and realizing the dreams that i never thought i would ever live to achieve it. oftentimes, people with mental health and substance used challenges are told that they can never recover. never go back to work, never have children. in

so i think people's mentalities are changing. grace, thanks so much. >>> you heard the debate and how zero, according to grace, that it can get. next, a personal story, a woman who says she watched her stepsister abused. then the abuse began on her. -oh, that's just my buds. -bacon. -my taste buds. -[ taste buds ] donuts. how about we try this new kind of fiber one cereal? you think you're going to slip some fiber by us? okay. ♪ fiber one is gonna make you smile. ♪ [ male announcer ] introducing new fiber one nutty clusters and almonds. [ male announcer ] introducing new fiber one i've got two tickets to paradise!l set? pack your bags, we'll leave tonight. uhh, it's next month, actually... eddie continues singing: to tickets to... paradiiiiiise! no four. remember? whoooa whooaa whooo! you know ronny, folks who save hundreds of dollars by switching to geico sure are happy. and how happy are they jimmy? happier than eddie money running a travel agency. get happy. get geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. >>

the trigger cooler mentality in -- the trigger puller mentality. i as somebody who knows many people has seen its that there has been a tremendous tension since 9/11 in the committee between the traditional unique skill sets of a form internal defense, and more of a direct action mentality to which you are referring. some people say this goes group by group. certain groups, and certain group commander's have more of a direct action mentality, and others have more of a uw foreign internal defense mentality. and it is not for me to say which is right and which is wrong. but the tension is certainly there. certainly, i think it is accurate to say that special forces is at least prior to the establishment of marine special operations command, the only force of the united states military has a that specializes in unconventional war and foreign defense. it goes without asking, whether direct action and spending specialized units is the best use of special forces. >> the first thing that was said to me what i wanted to special forces -- you have to unders

yesterday.megan gilliland s here with more on how the teens mental state could be a deciding factor.ood morning guys,15 year old robert gladden appeared in court with his hair much like it is in this mug shot... he stood before the judge wearing a black t-shirt and black baggy pants. both sides were in court for his bail review hearing... that hearing wasspostponed though because the defense said they needed more time to review some medical records. gladden is indicted on 29 counts following the perry hall school shooting that critically injured another student named daniel.although the state charged him as an adult... gladden's attorney's want that changed. sot 22:25:35 at that age...you don't throw somebody away at age 15 for a bad act actmental hospital doctors have evaulated the 15 year old. he has since been placed on suicide watch. while the events that landed gladden's attorneys say... one day he would like to talk to daniel and his family.hear what gladden wants to say to the classmate he shot... coming up next half hour.i'm megan gilliiand, fox45 morning news. 3&american off

so i think people's mentalities are changing. grace, thanks so much. you heard the debate and how severe, according to grace, that it can get. next, a personal story, a woman who says she watched her stepsister abused. then the abuse began on her. te . how about we try this new kind of fiber one cereal? you think you're going to slip some fiber by us? okay. ♪ fiber one is gonna make you smile. ♪ [ male announcer ] introducing new fiber one nutty clusters and almonds. ♪ [ male announcer ] introducing a stunning work of technology. introducing the entirely new lexus es. and the first-ever es hybrid. this is the pursuit of perfection. >>> tonight, we have been having an open and honest discussion on corporal punishment and discipline, things like spanking, hitting, slapping, forms of physical punishment on kids by parents or an adult. but when does discipline turn into all-out abuse? michelle castle witnessed abuse on her stepsister at a young age. it was that abuse that led to her stepsister's death. the abuse also started happening to her. michelle cast

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