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Care of Youth Hospitalized With Somatic Symptom and Related DisordersThere is a growing effort to standardize the evaluation and management of pediatric SSRDs, which have been reported as the second most common reason for consultation after suicide assessments.
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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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Legal and Ethical Issues in Emergency PsychiatryEmergency psychiatry navigates complex ethical dilemmas, balancing patient safety, autonomy, and confidentiality in high-stakes situations.
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Safety Planning: An Essential Feature of Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Suicide PreventionWhat is a safety plan, and how can clinicians use it to help patients with suicidal behavior?
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Smart Growth: the Case for Measuring Brain CapitalBrain health disorders cost the global economy more than $3 trillion per year in lost productivity. What can we do about it?
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Boosting Brain Health After COVID-19: A Convergence SolutionHow can we face the current pandemic while addressing the brain health crisis?
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Mind-Body Resilience for Women: A Focus on DepressionHere’s why we should be paying special attention to women's depression treatment.
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The Application of Telemedicine in Treating Addiction for Older AdultsIsolated older adults may be especially vulnerable to addiction issues with the onset of the pandemic. Here’s how telemedicine can help.
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A New CME: Continuing Moral EducationEvery phase of the COVID-19 pandemic brings new ethical challenges.
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Psychiatry’s Gender TroubleMichael F. Myers, MD, discusses issues of gender and sexuality, both today and in recent psychiatric history.
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Gender, Culture, and Social Constructs in Body-Focused Repetitive BehaviorsCareful consideration of the complex interplay between cultural identities, associations with beauty, and body-focused repetitive behaviors, may improve case conceptualization and treatment outcomes.
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Updates in Pediatric Boarding: A Review of National Pediatric Boarding Consensus Panel RecommendationsThe development of the National Pediatric Boarding Consensus Panel guidelines attempts to provide hospitals suggestions for a safe, timely, and equitable standard of care for patients who are boarding.
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The Fundamentals of QTc: Understanding Risks and Preventing ProblemsSome psychiatric medications that can trigger Torsades de Pointes (TdP), a potentially fatal polymorphic ventricular tachycardia that arises during abnormal ventricular repolarization. Are you aware of the risk factors that increase risk of TdP?
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At a Crossroads: Clinicians and Law Enforcement, a Partnership to Protect Mental HealthHow can we lessen fatal interactions between individuals with mental illness and police? The best possible avenue is partnership and cooperation between mental health clinicians and law enforcement.
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Psychosis in the Patient With COVID-19: An Emerging Psychopathology?"This pandemic represents an unprecedented time that requires a psychiatrist’s vigilance in identifying patients at risk for COVID-19–induced psychosis."
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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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Cannabis, Psychosis, and the Legal Implications: Chicken or Egg?Explore the relationship between cannabis use and psychosis.
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Bringing the Hospital Home: Meeting Teens in Crisis Where They AreLearn more about a feasible, scalable, effective model of care that is a step away from the forced dichotomy of inpatient and outpatient care.
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Vaccine Mandate Exemptions for Anxiety: Ethical and Practical ConsiderationsDoes anxiety justify an exemption from vaccine mandates among health care workers?
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A New CME: Continuing Moral EducationEvery phase of the COVID-19 pandemic brings new ethical challenges.
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Latinx PsychoanalysisA psychoanalyst shares her experience working with patients whose lives are marked by poverty, migration, and race and gender discrimination.
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Mental Health Responses to the Recent Conflict in IsraelWhat is the psychiatric impact of the current war in Gaza?
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I Revealed That I Take Medication for My Mental Health to Millions Online. Here’s What Happened."When I was very young and dreaming of becoming a doctor, I never witnessed a physician open up about their mental health, let alone admit to taking medication for it..."
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Current Treatments for Cannabis Use DisorderWhile there are no FDA-approved medications available for CUD, some studies show potential off-label utility in mitigating withdrawal and maintaining abstinence. Learn more in this CME article.
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Navigating New Terrain: Clinician Education at the Crossroads of Psychedelics and Medical EthicsPsychedelics: it is time to integrate this treatment option into clinical care while holding fast to the principles of medical ethics.
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BlueprintThe CEO and founder of Blueprint talks how they are improving the quality of mental health care by putting the proper data infrastructure in place.
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The Online, At-Home Ketamine Experience: A Clinician’s DilemmaAt-home ketamine treatment initiated by an online provider presents many legal, clinical, and ethical challenges...
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Prolonged Grief Disorder: The Derailed Grief ProcessProlonged grief disorder honors patients' loss by helping them integrate that loss into their lives—transforming and restoring lives of purpose and meaning.
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Reducing Stress Through MindfulnessListen to the sounds of nature and release the tension you are holding.
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The Overdose ConundrumA patient loss does not undo or discard the multitude of meaningful life changing and life preserving work done.
