The topics in this Special Report provide a broad picture of the issues psychiatrists face as they take a clear-eyed look at the opportunities and challenges in the emerging health care system.

Introduction: Expanding Your Practice and Avoiding Burnout

Although most major organizations recognize the importance of collaboration, the challenge for psychiatry is how to best integrate different aspects of psychiatric and primary care. Help here.

Keys to Successfully Working With Primary Care Physicians

Psychiatrists are particularly susceptible to burnout because of the nature of their work and the populations they serve. Combat strategies here.

“Burnout”: Strategies to Prevent and Overcome a Common-and Dangerous-Problem

This article reviews the many forms of fee agreement and notes the important factors to consider as well as questions to ask to properly assess and vet what may be best for one’s practice. 

Fee Agreements: What Works, What Doesn’t- and How to Use Them

Everything you need to know about the MOC process.

An Update on the Maintenance of Certification Program for Psychiatry

Select natural products have been evaluated as adjunctive agents that may be combined with conventional antipsychotics, with promising preliminary findings. Music therapy, meditation, and mindfulness training may improve quality of life for individuals with schizophrenia. Details here.

Integrative Management of Schizophrenia

What factors are involved in parents’ decision to begin medication treatment for a child with ADHD? An overview of studies that provide clinically relevant information related to the course and treatment outcomes of ADHD in children and adolescents.

Course and Treatment Outcomes of ADHD

Alcohol misuse in older adults is often underdiagnosed in medical practice. This age group is rapidly moving into the treatment realm of the practicing general, geriatric, and addiction psychiatrist.

Elderly Alcohol Use Disorders: Epidemiology, Screening, and Assessment Issues

The study of moral cognition now carries age-old questions and observations into the era of neuroimaging and cognitive neuroscience by the shift toward a capacity for asking, “What are the structures necessary and sufficient for moral reasoning?”

Neuroscience of Morality for the Mental Health Practitioner: A Review

Research is now making progress in understanding what happens before and during the illness and how this behavior can be explained.

Novel Research in the Neuropsychiatry of Anorexia Nervosa 

Evidence has accumulated on the efficacy of transcranial direct current stimulation in major depression. The authors review its potential mechanism of action, findings from recent clinical trials, and potential role in the treatment of depressive disorders.

The Current Status of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation as a Treatment for Depression

How are individuals with anorexia nervosa able to ignore signals regarding hunger that otherwise motivate eating, even when they are severely emaciated? Expert insights and online coverage by Psychiatric Times during National Eating Disorders Awareness Week.

Eating Disorders: Understanding Anorexia Nervosa

Many patients report that smoking helps them with their stress and psychological disturbances. However, smoking may actually worsen some of these symptoms. When is the right time for your patients to quit?

Quitting Smoking: Therapeutic in Mental Health Treatment

Emergency psychiatry is helping to redefine acute mental health treatment-facilitating timely access, in less restrictive, outpatient levels of care, for patients in crisis.

The Rise in Emergency Psychiatry

When I’m hungry, I love to stroll past the campus barnyard and visit the colorful, caged characters who live, like me...

Lunch Break at a Residential School

Why do so many die as a consequence of addiction? Sadly-and in some cases disastrously-affected individuals are never offered alternative approaches after one option fails. More in this commentary.

Tragic Trends in the Treatment of Addictive Illness

What differentiates this film from other Holocaust documentaries is that it documents the bonds between 4 Israeli-born siblings, recently bereaved, as much as it documents details about the fate of their father at the hands of Hitler’s henchmen.

Six Million and One

"Depression is overwhelming and overpowering, and it crushes its prey." Here: a pediatrician tells of her 40-year battle with severe depression, and offers insights about how to talk with someone who is depressed.

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