Is It OCD or an Anxiety Disorder? Considerations for Differential Diagnosis and Treatment
June 12th 2020While it may be challenging to differentiate between OCD and other anxiety disorders, using a multi-informant assessment and understanding the content of a patient’s fears is a fundamental start to outlining an effective treatment plan.
Rediscovering Disordered Selfhood in Schizophrenia
June 8th 2020Familiarity with self-disorders is an indispensable tool in diagnosing a patient suspected for developing schizophrenia. Such knowledge improves communication with the patient and may serve as a starting point for therapeutic intervention.
Addressing Premature Mortality: Living With Serious Mental Illness
May 29th 2020Living with a mental illness is all too often accompanied by poverty and social disadvantage, which contribute to shortened life spans and reduced quality of life. However, there approaches for addressing many of the preventable causes of poor health and mortality in this patient population.
When Baby and OCD Are on Board Assessment and Treatment Issues
March 31st 2020OCD in the general population often differs from OCD that presents in the perinatal period. It is imperative to recognize, assess, and treat perinatal OCD to improve maternal and child outcomes and have a transgenerational impact.
Untangling the Web of Comorbid Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Medical Illness
OCD symptoms can be quite difficult to recognize. Not understanding what is happening, patients tend to be ashamed and suffer in silence, often resulting in a period of 8 to 10 years of untreated illness and long-term negative outcomes.
Differentiating Comorbid Bipolar Disorder and OCD
This review highlights an important diagnostic and therapeutic task: the importance of differentiating true bipolar disorder/obsessive-compulsive disorder comorbidity from BD with secondary OCD.
Introduction: Trauma and Its Psychiatric Consequences
February 28th 2020The articles in this Special Report focus on the interplay between trauma and its consequences, including violent behaviors, substance use disorders, and stroke. Taken together, the articles may contribute to a better understanding of-and treatment development for-patients exposed to trauma.
Violent Behavior and Involuntary Commitment: Ethical and Clinical Considerations
February 28th 2020Ultimately, the decision about involuntary treatment is about risk, not predictable outcomes. In many cases, however, these decisions are much more difficult and, until our crystal balls arrive, our best efforts may still fall short.
Pharmacological Management of Violence and Violent Behavior in Psychiatric Settings
February 28th 2020Psychotic violence is associated with primary psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and bipolar disorder. While it may be that psychotic violence is the least common type of violence in inpatient environments, it is also the most treatable.
Celebrating Progress, but Challenges Remain
January 30th 2020With their early age of onset, high prevalence, chronicity, and pervasive impact on multiple domains of functioning, the burden of mood disorders exceeds that of virtually all medical conditions in the US and globally in terms of disability, cost, and suffering.
Integrating Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacology in the Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder
January 30th 2020Although multiple interventions exist for major depressive disorder (MDD), only partial response is achieved in many patients and recurrence is common. Combining medication and psychotherapy may enable more effective treatment of MDD.