1 in 3 COVID-19 survivors experience persistent consequences. What can psychiatry do to help?
The pandemic revealed the potential of telepsychiatry for continuity of care in a group that perhaps needs it the most.
Safety planning by peers is feasible and acceptable to patients, might result in decreased ED visits, and may represent a way of implementing safety plans in rural EDs.
One doctor argues that assisted suicide is just that—suicide, not murder—and should be available for some patients.
It's time to take a critical look at our health care system.
Lessons from the opioid epidemic should be applied to cases of methamphetamine abuse.
How can you be better prepared to interview and care for peripartum patients? This CME shows you how.
Evaluating a new framework for evaluating undue influence and its implications for elder abuse and human trafficking cases.
How keeping your brain healthy also helps your patients and your community.
Television, tablets, gaming, phones: how are they impacting child and adolescent mental health?
What suicide prevention programs have the best evidence for efficacy?
Can we save lives by dispatching mental health professionals as first responders to behavioral health calls?
For patients looking to supercharge their memory, what foods are best?
Is the solution to health care professional burnout in our phones?
Australia’s cascading environmental crises are all likely effects of climate change. How can psychiatrists and other mental health stakeholders respond?
Psychiatrists are uniquely suited to help patients with and without heart disease feel more positive and hopeful. This, in turn, can have substantial effects not just on mental health, but on health behaviors and physical health outcomes as well.
Which innovations can improve measurement, technology, investment, and public policy surrounding brain health?
This crisis and hostage negotiator shares one his scariest moments from the field.
The new criteria have been updated to increase flexibility and provide greater clarity around standards for behavioral health clinicians.
In this CME, the link between personality disorders and violence is explored. Much still remains to be learned about the factors that mediate the link.
How to regulate circadian rhythms and regulate mood using dark therapy.
What risk does clomiphene use present to patients?
Beyond the COVID-19-driven shock, we must develop a resilient future in an increasingly uncertain world.
What does existing research say about the connection between substance use disorders and eating disorders?
The COVID-19 pandemic should have us reflecting on the state of our health care system as well as embarking in a national dialogue on what type of system we want for this country and what investments we need to attain that vision.
It is essential that clinicians take an active approach in creating a culturally safe space to provide mental health care to WoC.
Women should be provided with multiple options for treatment if they decide to engage in mental health care during this critical period.
For some patients, quarantine and isolation may generate feelings of uncertainty. It is important to use accurate terminology, since the words we use and how we think shape our being and responses.