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Next Steps: Solutions and Recommendations For HealingClimate change is a devastating existential threat that can exaggerate preexisting inequities and health/mental health problems. As mental health professionals committed to understanding deep emotional wounds and addressing complexities of relationships, psychiatrists have the tools to assist in bridging the current gaps.
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From Languishing to Flourishing: The Impact of the COVID-19 PandemicWhat can be done to mitigate stress and reduce burnout?
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Pediatricians Submit 300+ Personal Gun Violence Testimonies to Congressional RecordThe American Academy of Pediatrics included these testimonies in a statement submitted to the US Senate Judiciary Committee in advance of the committee’s hearing on gun violence prevention.
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Treatment of Military PopulationsWhat psychiatric illnesses are most prevalent among veterans? And how can clinicians help them overcome obstacles to care?
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Anger Among Health Care ProfessionalsIt is an uncomfortable emotion that is often suppressed—but potent.
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Medication Modification Equivalent for Virtual and In-Person Psychiatric VisitsMental health leads with 36% of all outpatient visits and 39% of all telehealth services. What effect does this have on psychiatric practice?
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Black Americans’ Distrust of the COVID-19 VaccineA case for why psychiatrists should discuss the COVID vaccines with their patients.
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Clinically Based Policy Decisions: In-Person Requirements for Telehealth Create Unnecessary BarriersMedicare's in-person requirement threatens access to quality care.
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The Border Zone Between bvFTD and Primary Psychiatric DisordersIn this CME, learn more about frontotemporal lobar degeneration and the several overlapping syndromes that it encompasses, as well as how to distinguish behavioral variant frontotemporal lobar degeneration from other psychiatric disorders.
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Lessons From a Difficult YearA year after being hospitalized with COVID, a physician considers the pandemic’s larger meaning for American medicine—and for American society.
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Defining Treatment-Resistant DepressionDoes treatment-resistant depression exist? These 2023 APA Annual Meeting panelists discuss definitions in this exclusive video.
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Psychiatrists Call for End to Cruel and Harmful Immigration PolicyThe Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (America’s mental health think tank) calls for an end to the use of Title 42 to expel asylum seekers at the southern border. This policy places LGBTIQ asylum seekers in particular danger.
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Understanding Adult Fire Setting, Pyromania, and ArsonFire setting is the current preferred term in the literature to describe acts of deliberately started fires regardless of their legal or diagnostic status.
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Sharing the Results: ALKS 3831ALKS 3831, if approved by the FDA, could be a promising new treatment option for schizophrenia or bipolar I disorder.
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After COVID-19 and Beyond the Opioid WaveLessons from the opioid epidemic should be applied to cases of methamphetamine abuse.
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Grief After SuicideAn adolescent psychiatric RN shares “Heavy Damage,” a poem about managing grief after losing a loved one to suicide.
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New Digital Psychiatry Tools to Improve CareThe last year has seen an unprecedented shift in the medical landscape, and mental health care is no exception. Experts look at the evidence and risks of digital tools, apps, telehealth, and other technologies for the treatment of serious mental illness.
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To Disclose or Not to Disclose? Lessons From a Dying TherapistWhen therapists are terminally ill, should they err on the side of self-disclosure or silence?
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Psychiatrists Call for End to Cruel and Harmful Immigration PolicyThe Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (America’s mental health think tank) calls for an end to the use of Title 42 to expel asylum seekers at the southern border. This policy places LGBTIQ asylum seekers in particular danger.
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What Happens to One of Us, Happens to All of UsEradicating structural racism takes actions both big and small. Read more to learn about one doctor’s experience and what you can do in your own practice.
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Meditating on the Breath of LifeBy separating patients from their thoughts, meditation can reduce stress and anxiety.
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Tumbling Into Telepsychiatry in the COVID-19 Era: Challenges and HopeThe are many elements to consider during this massive migration to telepsychiatry. Nonverbal, physical, and socioeconomic factors are all significant considerations of the shift in frame.
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Brain Capital: An Emerging Investment OpportunityBrain Capital: a fresh approach to technologies and investing.
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Treatment Challenges for College Psychiatrists and Their PatientsThe pandemic has brought into focus treatment barriers, disruption in care, and possibly negative outcomes in the mental health of university students. To better understand the specific challenges of out-of-state students, the authors conducted an anonymous national survey of college psychiatrists.
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A New Drug for Schizophrenia-Related Cognitive Impairments?Listen to discussion on results from a recent Phase 1b clinical trial.
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Inclusivity: Ensuring Patients Who Are Plus-Size Feel WelcomeA welcoming environment that fosters inclusivity is the first step in establishing a good therapeutic relationship.
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Technology-Enabled Care: The Future of Our FieldWhat will psychiatric practice look like in the year 2030?
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Insights From the 2022 AAPL Annual MeetingThe American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law hosted its first in-person meeting in October 2022. Check out these highlights.
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Let’s Build Brains Better! Brain Science-Inspired Policies for the FutureIn order to face the rapidly changing, increasingly complex, and globally connected world, we need to focus on the importance of early brain and child development.
