From collaborative care for individuals with schizophrenia and COVID-19 to strategies for building patient rapport, here are highlights from the week in Psychiatric Times.

Here are 3 ways you can help prevent and overcome difficult situations with patients.

Involuntary treatment is a trauma.

"I hold a thousand kites in a field loosed from their tethers at once..."

Should the American Psychiatric Association change its name?

What are the psychiatric and non-psychiatric correlates of tobacco smoking status in bipolar disorders? Researchers investigated these associations in a large patient cohort.

“I really find that nature is very powerful for me to manage my mind in all sorts of different ways.”

Recent research evaluated evenamide as an add-on to an antipsychotic for patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia.

Collecting fees is essential, but it can be uncomfortable and even difficult. What strategies can you use to ease the burden?

Should a psychiatrist be the “Nation’s Doctor”?

An update from a patient we learned about a year ago.

"Considerable resources must be devoted to healing the deep and painful—but frequently invisible—wounds that have scarred the minds of millions of Ukraine’s civilians and soldiers."

How can patient-centered, collaborative care help promote safety and stabilization in the treatment of patients with cooccurring diagnoses of schizophrenia and COVID-19?

“Clinicians must explain the problem and the treatment in a way that is jargon-free, engages the patient (and) instills hope.”

Every time you take the long view and act in alignment with your values or aspirations, you strengthen the self-control part of your brain.

We connected with a group working on the frontlines of Southern Turkey and Northern Syria to assist the survivors of the devastating earthquake.

The second coming of psychedelics… what will the outcome be?

Do ADHD symptoms impact smoking cessation outcomes? Researchers performed a randomized controlled trial of varenicline for tobacco cessation in adolescents and young adults.

One psychiatry resident describes his experience creating a mental health policy and advocacy elective.

AI and psychiatry: where are we headed?

From an update on at-home ketamine therapy to the psychopharmacologic treatment of bipolar depression, here are highlights from the week in Psychiatric Times.

"Organized medicine and specialty organizations are key pillars of support for individual physicians that provide opportunities to advocate for more funding and resources for the medical system and education."

"This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals..."

We may need the luck of the Irish to avoid future disasters…

Researchers investigated sleep disturbances in individuals at ultra-high risk of psychosis.