Psychiatric News, Features, Special Reports and Career Opportunities - Psychiatric Times en Copyright 2009, CMPMedica US Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:01 GMT Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:01 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/blog/frances/content/article/10168/2142964?CID=rss Education and discussion will be the most powerful ways to mitigate the risks of DSM-5. The more people know about psychiatric diagnosis, the more safe, accurate, and useful it will be. Fri, 17 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/conference-reports/apa2013/content/article/10168/2142729?CID=rss Certain aspects of depression result from maladaptive stress-induced changes in reward circuits of the brain. Dr Eric Nestler discusses in this video. Fri, 17 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/conference-reports/apa2013/content/article/10168/2142723?CID=rss Thinking about suicidal behavior as a diagnosable problem will help bridge the gap in how psychiatrists think about suicidality and how it is perceived by patients and their families. Dr Maria Oquendo elaborates in this video. Fri, 17 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/blog/frances/content/article/10168/2142431?CID=rss The British Psychological Society has issued a press release that rivals the silliness of DSM-5 and the National Institute of Mental Health. Wed, 15 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/2141920?CID=rss The flat out rejection of DSM-5 by National Institute of Mental Health is a sad moment for mental health--and an unsafe one for our patients. The APA and NIMH are both letting us down, failing to be safe custodians for the mental health needs of our country. Fri, 10 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/conference-reports/apa2013/content/article/10168/2141770?CID=rss Eco-psychiatry? If you’re thinking, “Aren’t I already dealing with a lot in my daily practice?” you are invited to spend the next few minutes listening to what Dr Steven Moffic has to say about how the environment may be affecting your patients and what impact ecologically-related syndromes might have on DSM-5. Sat, 18 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/dementia/content/article/10168/2141743?CID=rss Which of the following complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies may have beneficial effects on symptoms of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer disease (AD)? Thu, 16 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/cultural-psychiatry/content/article/10168/2141691?CID=rss This psychiatrist has learned to ask if his Hmong patients have also consulted a shaman to help with their depressive symptoms and with their PTSD. Fri, 17 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/2141677?CID=rss Quick . . . name a class of prescription medications that, by most evidence, appears to be overprescribed and abused and the use of which has resulted in an increasing number of emergency department visits. If you said "opioids," you would be right. Wed, 15 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/2141667?CID=rss How often are you confronted with an ethical dilemma in your clinical practice? How comfortable—and how prepared—are you to deal with these issues? Tue, 14 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/portraits/content/article/10168/2141662?CID=rss Being a Therapist features intimate portraits of psychotherapists in their own work spaces. An excerpt of his interview with Otto Kernberg, MD, follows. Mon, 13 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/2141641?CID=rss Come next year, psychiatrists will start seeing patients who have purchased new individual and small-group health plans on the state exchanges mandated by the Affordable Care Act. Wed, 8 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/2141447?CID=rss The poorly conceived DSM-5 Somatic Symptom Disorder substitutes a false psychiatric certainty that misleadingly covers medical uncertainty about the appropriate diagnosis. It is better to admit what we don't know than cover it with meaningless labels. Tue, 7 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/child-adolescent-psych/content/article/10168/2141319?CID=rss Parents of children with ADHD frequently ask whether there are nonmedication treatments that are effective for managing their children’s symptoms of ADHD. A recent meta-analysis provides an answer to this clinically important question. Mon, 6 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/2141185?CID=rss In this Special Report, the authors present an approach for identifying trauma exposure within a brief psychiatric evaluation and discuss proposed DSM-5 criteria for developmental trauma disorder in youths. Fri, 3 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/2141180?CID=rss Here: how psychiatrists can be more responsive to issues of childhood trauma in adult patients--and why it is important to include questions about childhood trauma when obtaining a history of an adult patient with a stress disorder. Fri, 3 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/2141175?CID=rss When attempting to incorporate resilience-building strategies into practice, it is worthwhile to note that resilience is a dynamic concept in which successful coping may mean a mixture of major real-life successes in the context of continuing difficulties. Fri, 3 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/2141007?CID=rss Has the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity had any real impact on your ability to provide care to patients, or are you experiencing the shells and mortars of paperwork and denials? And will the average patient ever really benefit from the laws, or were they just passed to make the country feel better about the state of psychiatric care in the US? Mon, 6 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT