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An Invitation: Psychiatric Malpractice Grand Rounds

The authors share evidence-based guidance for patient safety that minimizes suicide risk in medical settings.

Implementation Challenges of Universal Suicide Risk Screening in Adult Patients in General Medical and Surgical Settings

The costs, risks, and considerations involved in treating addiction have upped the ante, as illustrated in this case.

A Rock and a Hard Place

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Problems with any one of these domains can disrupt an individual’s capacity to sustain work capacity.

5 Domains of Functional Assessment for Disability Evaluation

These 10 domains will help you determine if functional impairment exists, if it can be reversed, and if the patient can return to work.

Functional Assessment  for Disability Applications: Tools for the Psychiatrist

She wondered what the secret was to life as a psychiatrist, a grieving daughter, and a new mother of twins.

The Grief Monster

Medical malpractice, a form of professional negligence, remains a heavily criticized legal solution for ensuring patient autonomy and competent health care.

Duty of Care and Informed Consent

Determining how to ensure delivery of excellent care while balancing medicolegal demands may seem to be an impossible task. When done in a collaborative way, safety planning can help the clinician better understand risk and targets for intervention.

Suicide Risk Assessment and Management: Tips for Improving Care and Outcomes

Climate change poses one of the greatest threats to public health in modern times, and the mental health effects are no less concerning.

Climate Change and Its Impacts on Mental Health

Medical students, psychiatry residents, and practicing psychiatrists from different backgrounds gathered with one purpose: “To increase awareness around the mental health needs of the 437,000 foreign nationals from 10 countries on Temporary Protected Status."

The Silent Suffering of Those on Temporary Protected Status: Unbeknownst to Many

Neither time nor science has given pause to some attorneys who exploit the misunderstanding that surrounds the putative "criminogenic" effects of antidepressants. 

Warning: Antidepressants May  Cause Messaging Manslaughter

Here: a review of the definition of sexual harassment, its prevalence among physicians and medical students, its potential impact on physicians and trainees, and guidance about its management. 

Speaking Up: Sexual Harassment in the Medical Setting

Residency was going according to plan until a phone call changed everything.

Resilience Can’t Be Taught-But It Can Be Learned 

When clinicians work without ready access to a security team or environmental safety protocols, early recognition is crucial to preventing or avoiding those rare occasions when behavior problems escalate. 

Assault in the Medical Setting: 3 Stages of Violence

Which patients are at greatest risk for premature death following discharge?

Mortality Risk After Discharge From Psychiatric Care

The points summarized in this pocket guide-drawn from actual cases-recur repeatedly as problems for practitioners.

9 Tips to Maintain Boundaries in Clinical Practice

Strategies to reduce aggression in psychiatric treatment settings.

Lessons in Mitigating Violence

The authors review the association between depression and violence, and the role that anger and emotional dysregulation play.

Depressive Symptoms Associated With Aggression

There is no predictive tool that is likely to have validity for rare outcomes such as terrorist attacks. More here.

The Role of Psychiatrists in Countering Violent Extremism

Here's compelling reason for judicious use of restraint and seclusion, and a review of various alternative approaches.

Risk Management

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