Oregon Psychiatric Association – Mental Health PDX

Mental illness in kids: What do we know? What can we do?

March 2, 2013

By Anna Griffin, The Oregonian, March 2, 2013 When something as horrific as the Sandy Hook Elementary shootings occurs, human nature tells us to seek rational explanation, to ask why. That question doesn’t get us very far. “I don’t think anybody is an expert in this kind of thing,” said Bonnie Nagel, a neuropsychologist at […]

Psychiatric Security Review Board Reform Moves Forward

June 1, 2011

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From The Lund Report, June 1, 2011, by Amanda Waldroupe Nevertheless, concerns about more aggressive changes to the Board persist A bill that fundamentally changes the way people are evaluated who are found “guilty except for insanity” is winding its way through the legislature, and represents the most significant changes to the Psychiatric Security Review […]

Lack of psychiatric beds burdens health care system

February 5, 2006

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From The Portland Business Journal, February 5, 2006 Urgent-care patients from Portland get sent to facilities Over a recent holiday weekend, three Portland-area patients needing emergency mental health care were sent out of town for help. One patient ended up in a Medford hospital; the other two went to Corvallis. The reason: Not one Portland-area […]