Mental Health

“When we reduce people to ideologies and political positions, we're dehumanizing them,” said Heather Holmgren, a licensed marriage and family therapist and founder of Simple Modern Therapy.

Even though the Orem campus of Utah Valley University is closed, some students still gathered the day after political influencer Charlie Kirk was shot and killed to grieve and pay their respects.

Encircle plans to grow and respond to community needs in northern Utah, and they’re looking forward to working with other organizations.

“Jails and prisons are not treatment facilities, and they are certainly not assisted living centers and are not facilities with memory care units,” notes lawyer and author Elizabeth Kelley.

Cuando abra el 28 de julio, el Centro de Crisis Juvenil en el Instituto de Salud Mental Huntsman atenderá emergencias no médicas como angustia emocional, ansiedad, depresión y conductas suicidas.

When it opens on July 28, the Youth Crisis Center at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute will care for non-medical emergencies such as emotional distress, anxiety, depression and suicidal behavior.

While a Utah judge set a September execution date, the court scheduled another hearing to determine whether the inmate with dementia needs another mental evaluation to determine competency.

Sixty-seven-year-old Ralph Menzies, despite suffering from dementia, is set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother of three Maurine Hunsaker in 1986.

AI has a role to play in mental health care, but it also comes with potential risks.

Utah no tiene un plan estatal de acción contra el calor, ni muchas localidades cuentan con centros de enfriamiento donde los habitantes puedan refugiarse del calor.

Utah doesn’t have a statewide heat-action plan in place, nor do many localities have cooling centers where Utahns can visit to escape the heat.

A convicted killer who developed dementia while on death row for 37 years has been ruled competent enough to be executed. Menzies was sentenced to die in 1988 for killing mother of three Maurine Hunsaker.