Mental Health Support and Interventions to Prevent Gun Violence

Through this critical work, SURGE researchers and their colleagues are evaluating the relationship between mental illness and gun violence, with implications for mental health interventions. Publications and relevant media are included below.

Relevant Publications

Does the Second Amendment Protect the Gun Rights of Persons With Mental Illness? - Appelbaum P, Psychiatric Services, 2016

Public Safety, Mental Disorders, and Guns - Appelbaum P, JAMA Psychiatry, 2013

Media

Mental Health Channel Treating Mental Illness to Stop Violence

Medscape - March 2020 Mass Violence, and What We Need to Learn

New York Daily News - November 2017 The Texas shooting again reveals inadequate mental-health help in the U.S. military

US News - July 2015 Another Side of Gun Violence

Psychology Today - May 2014 Privacy, Liberty and Another Mass Murder

Psychology Today - September 2013 The Tragedy of Mental Health Law

Psychiatric News, American Psychiatric Association - March 2013 Appelbaum addresses Biden’s gun violence task force