Mental Health

Spending at Wayne County mental health agency focus of new investigation

10 Feb 2012

Scandal-plagued Wayne County faces a new investigation, this time by state Attorney General Bill Schuette, who wants to examine the spending practices of the Detroit-Wayne County Community Mental Health Agency. The agency, which treats people with developmental disabilities, has sparked controversy in the past.

Fears that grieving relatives could be labelled mentally ill

10 Feb 2012

CHANGES to the American “bible� of mental health disorders could see grieving relatives labelled mentally ill, experts have claimed.

New mental health manual is 'dangerous': Experts

10 Feb 2012

LONDON (REUTERS) - Millions of healthy people - including shy or defiant children, grieving relatives and people with fetishes - may be wrongly labelled mentally ill by a new international diagnostic manual, specialists said on Thursday.