Political Climate as a Chronic Stressor
We speak with Dr. Christopher McCarthy, a UT Austin professor of educational psychology and leading authority on stress and coping in educational settings, on how his work translates to the current political climate.
Hogg Foundation Policy Priorities 2017
“We have reason to be hopeful about where we’re at on mental health in this legislative session,” says Greg Hansch, public policy director for National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of Texas. The Hogg Foundation recently released its list of policy priorities for...
Youth in Transition: From Support to Empowerment
“Statistically I’m not supposed to be here. I should be in prison, homeless, or dead.” -LaQuinton Wagner Statistics are not necessarily the end all. With the overhaul of Texas’ child welfare system dominating headlines during the 2017 legislative session, we...
Trauma-Informed Care, and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
In this episode, learn how seeing through the “disguise” of disability requires a sensitivity to the role that trauma plays.
Nightmare at Noon – The UT Tower Shooting
In this podcast, we hear a first-person account of the shooting and the mental health questions that arose after this historic tragedy.