{"id":9895,"date":"2025-10-20T20:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T20:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/9895\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T20:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T20:38:10","slug":"new-york-state-retires-edp-term-adopts-compassionate-language-for-people-experiencing-a-mental-health-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/9895\/","title":{"rendered":"New York state retires \u2018EDP\u2019 term, adopts compassionate language for people experiencing a mental health crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Language matters, especially when it comes to how people experiencing a mental health crisis are described and treated.<\/p>\n<p>After years of advocacy from the mental health community and its allies, Gov. Kathy Hochul on Sept. 26 retired the term \u201cemotionally disturbed person,\u201d or EDP \u2014 long considered disparaging \u2014 and signed legislation requiring all state and city agencies, including law enforcement, hospitals, fire departments and correctional facilities, to replace the term with person-first language: \u201cperson experiencing an emotional crisis\u201d (PEC\/PEEC). The 911 system will also have to adopt the new term.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/new-york-retires-edp-term-compassionate-language-mental-health\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at Brooklyn Paper &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tNew York state retires \u2018EDP\u2019 term, adopts compassionate language for people experiencing a mental health crisis &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Language matters, especially when it comes to how people experiencing a mental health crisis are described and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8148,8149,8150,8151,8152,2190,8153,8154,8155,9,11,8156,10,49,51,50,12,370,8157,8158],"class_list":["post-9895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-christina-sparrock","tag-edp","tag-emotionally-disturbed-person","tag-eudes-pierre","tag-governor-kathy-hocul","tag-mental-health","tag-mental-health-advocates","tag-mental-health-legislation","tag-mental-health-crisis","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-lawyers-for-the-public-interest","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-newsletter","tag-pec-peec","tag-person-experiencing-an-emotional-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}