More than 500 people attended Patton State Hospital’s 16th annual Forensic Mental Health Conference last week.
Patton employees, family members of patients and employees of the San Bernardino Superior Court and state prison systems were in attendance, Patton spokeswoman Cindy Barrett said.
Sandy Heuisler and David Johnson traveled from Alexandria, Va., to attend the conference and deliver [...]

Former child soldiers in Nepal are more than twice as likely to suffer from symptoms of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as Nepali children who experienced war trauma as civilians, according to a study led by Brandon Kohrt, an Emory University graduate student. It is the first published study of the mental health of [...]