Besides AI hallucinations, there are AI meta-hallucinations. Those are especially bad in a mental health context. Here's the ...

Semantic leakage occurs when a word in a prompt is later used in an LLM chat in an unsuspecting way. This can be worrisome in ...

NAMI is launching a first-of-its-kind effort to develop benchmarks for assessing how AI tools respond when people seek mental health information and support.

San Mateo adopted a new approach to mental health 911 calls by pairing police with mental health clinicians. Researchers found that it reduced the number of future mental health emergency calls and ...

Briana Fair, a mental health clinician with the San Mateo Police Department, received a dozen voicemails from the same distressed caller over a single weekend this month.

Last month, Austin police officer Jamie von Seltmann responded to a 911 call reporting that a woman had barricaded herself in a bathroom at a downtown church. When von Seltmann arrived, she found ...

In the wake of Rob and Michele Reiner's deaths, online conversations about their son and substance use have been horrendous.

Ronda Deplazes thought Gov. Newsom’s CARE Court could save her son as he struggled with mental illness. Two years later, she ...

Joshua Bujold, an upbeat psychology student in his first semester at Montreal's Dawson College, was taken aback to find out ...

In a year where school districts went through the fiscal guessing game of presenting budgets before the state Legislature approved a statewide budget and the unusual circumstance of the federal ...

Swearing can help people push harder during physical tasks by lowering inhibitions and boosting confidence, researchers say, ...

Mental Health First Aid is a skills-based training course that teaches participants about mental health and substance-use issues. Just as CPR helps you assist an individual having a heart attack, ...