Report: Majority of mass violence not linked to mental health

A new report from the Medical Director Institute (MDI) of the National Council for Mental Wellbeing examines the connection between the rise in mass violence and mental health.
The findings from the report—“Mass Violence in the United States: Definition, Prevalence, Causes, Impacts, and Solutions”—show that while mental illness can play a role in some cases of mass violence, the media and members of the public often too quickly blame mental illness for all mass violence.
“We have the ability to take effective steps right now to curtail mass violence, but we have not adequately addressed the crisis,” said Joe Parks, MD, co-chair of the MDI and medical director of the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. “There are a very small portion of m...
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