Trauma And Violence

How can you best identify and manage pediatric PTSD?

Studies report an increased risk for suicidal thoughts, suicide attempts, and even death by suicide following brain injury.

How does trauma, like an assassination attempt, affect someone’s mental health?

An understanding of evolving risk factors and pathophysiology is vital to optimal clinical management of anxiety disorders and PTSD.

For those who have experienced trauma and suffer a subsequent mental health disorder, ongoing research is identifying psychotherapies, medications, and lifestyle changes that can help.

How are current events similar to that of the 1960s?

Highland Park is an excellent example of community recovery from mass tragedies.

Validating some patients could lead to both clinician and patient harm.

Improving cognitive function is a primary goal of brain injury rehabilitation and is made possible through the process of neuroplasticity.

Celebrating our fallen soldiers and protecting the mental health of the military.

Polypharmacy is often overlooked in patients with significant traumatic brain injury. How can you best manage medication in these patients?

As a mental health clinician, are you ready to give peace a chance?

May is Jewish, Haitian, and Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. What trauma have these groups inherited?

What is new in research on stress and anxiety disorders?

What is new in research on posttraumatic stress disorder?

Explore the devastating impact of substance abuse, human trafficking, and conflict on individuals and communities.

Trauma is the distance between the reach and the grasp for our chosen image.

Poetry for peace in a time of war.

The suicide rate in the United States recently reached its highest peak since 1941.

From a promising new intervention for treatment-resistant depression to another look at the STAR*D controversy, here are highlights from the week in Psychiatric Times.

Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip experience complex continuous trauma.

What is new in research on ADHD?

Caring adulthood experiences have the power to combat some of the impacts of adverse childhood experiences.

If all violence in the US that is due to mental disorders could be eliminated, 95% to 97% of violent behavior would remain.

"I refuse to see sexual violence as a 'women’s issue.' It is a human issue and should be addressed as one."

How has psychiatry affected the role of being a parent? What makes a good parent?

Brain injury associated fatigue and altered cognition has been associated with a subset of individuals with mild traumatic brain injuries who develop posttraumatic hypopituitarism, including altered gut microbiome and amino acid utilization.

For this doctor, silence on the violence in the Middle East is a betrayal.

What can we learn from war trauma?

What did Einstein and Freud have to say about war, and how does it apply today?