Was the school shooting a mental health issue?

Is There a Link Between Mental Health and Mass Shootings?

Findings from the Columbia database help dispel the myth that having a severe psychiatric illness is predictive of who will perpetrate mass ...

Surviving a school shooting: Impacts on the mental health ...

Research indicates a higher rate of antidepressant use among those exposed to a school shooting in the years following the gun violence. School shootings lead ...

Mental illness and reduction of gun violence and suicide

This article describes epidemiologic evidence concerning risk of gun violence and suicide linked to psychiatric disorders, in contrast to media-fueled ...

What Are the Real Warning Signs of a Mass Shooting?

While some mass shootings are committed by people with diagnosed mental illnesses, a life crisis is a better predictor of violence, ...

The Mind of the Mass School Shooter

The mass school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, coming nearly 10 years after the eerily similar massacre at Sandy Hook ...

U.S. mass shootings, by prior signs of shooter's mental health issues ...

In 74 cases out of a total of 151 reported mass shootings in the United States since 1982, the shooter(s) displayed prior signs of mental ...

Survivors and mental health experts share what they know about the ...

Rebekah Schuler was walking to her classroom, sharing headphones with a friend as they listened to “”, when gunshots and screams sent them ...

The Mental Health Effects of School Shootings

A new study finds that the use of prescription drugs to treat mental health conditions, including depression and anxiety, increased by over ...

An Examination of School Shootings and Mental Health

The current study looks at the connection between mental illness and school shootings, as well as the roles that media, gun control, violence, and masculinity ...

It's tempting to say gun violence is about mental illness. The truth is ...

Focusing on mental illness as the cause of mass shootings diverts attention from the larger problem of gun violence in the U.S., ...

Abbott calls Texas school shooting a mental health issue but cut ...

Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that the Uvalde school shooter had a mental health challenge and the state needed to do a better job with mental health.

St. Louis school shooter's family sought mental health treatment for ...

St. Louis police said Orlando Harris used this AR-15-style rifle in Monday's school shooting. AP. After the gunman burst ...

School Shootings and Youth Mental Health

OSS provides training that helps Wisconsin public and private schools deter, prevent, mitigate, and respond to school violence. OSS training covers physical ...

Can Better Mental Health Care Really Stop School Shootings?

After every tragic school shooting the national conversation turns toward gun control and better mental health treatment. It's an encouraging sign that ...

Georgia school-shooting suspect struggled with mental health, aunt ...

The parents of the 14-year-old high-school-shooting suspect have not commented publicly after the deadly attack at Apalachee High School.

Mass Shootings' Relationship to Mental Illness - Psychiatric Times

If all violence in the US that is due to mental disorders could be eliminated, 95% to 97% of violent behavior would remain.

Our children are worried about guns—and it's hurting their mental ...

A Sunday school class reveals how deeply all students have been affected by mass shooting incidents and constant “active shooter drills.”

Nashville school shooter had mental health disorder, police say

Hale's parents did not ...

Gun violence expert speaks on prevention, shooter characteristics ...

The Department of Psychiatry and the Institute for Public Health recently collaborated to bring gun violence expert, Jillian Peterson to ...

Dispelling the myth of violence and mental illness, with Joel Dvoskin ...

Recent mass shootings have inevitably led to news reports of the suspected shooters' mental health, but psychological research shows there is no clear link ...