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Resilience is dynamic and modifiable and is associated with positive rehabilitation outcomes following brain injury. Engaging patients in interventions to develop and strengthen resilience may improve rehabilitation outcomes by promoting psychosocial adjustment, mitigating emotional distress, and enhancing community participation.

As we celebrate the anniversary of COVID-19, let’s examine what meaning the pandemic brought to our lives.

Dance/movement therapy has proven to be effective in treating children with trauma, making dance something that can change the way a child develops psychologically.

Psychiatry has a lot to learn from the case of Gabby Petito.

Here are highlights from this week in Psychiatric Times, including updates on the BHV-7000 for bipolar disorder trial and a new study on physician suicide rates.

How do psychiatrists and mental health professionals respond when faced with disaster? One psychiatrist shares his story.

Vincenzo Di Nicola has won the Award for Leadership in Child, Adolescent, and Young Adult Psychiatry. Learn more about his thoughts on trauma, leadership, and issues in child and adolescent psychiatry.

Learn more about the 5 principles of intervention that serve as guidance for developing practices after disasters and mass violence.

Explore research on resilience following disasters in this slideshow.

Learn more about how to appropriately diagnose and categorize a spectrum of posttraumatic stress responses in children and adolescents.

Psychiatry may often encounter suicide and homicide, but what is its relationship with ecocide and genocide?

Here's how best to manage polypharmacy in patients with traumatic brain injury.

Because diagnosis and management of concussions remain challenging, reliable biomarkers can improve effective intervention.

How can the field of psychiatry support the peace process in the APA and beyond?

Extreme risk protection orders may be an effective suicide prevention tool.

In a new study, researchers found the subtype of childhood trauma impacts the effectiveness of antipsychotic medications.

Brain injury was recently recognized as a chronic health condition.

Traumatic life events are common among individuals who experience psychosis. Here's how best to assess and treat.

We are all familiar with the heavy emotional labor loads that are part and parcel of clinical life. But what about the toll of exposure to verbal abuse and hostility in the workplace? Is there another labor that clinicians must contend with?

Any efforts to build lasting peace cannot ignore the massive mental health needs in war-torn regions.

What is the reality of patient resilience?

A traumatic brain injury sustained earlier in adult life is likely to interact with normal aging processes. Learn more here.

If psychiatrists of different religions and spiritual beliefs coupled with psychological insights cannot overcome conflict and achieve peace, who can?

How can agitation mimic various psychiatric illnesses?

Today is the 23rd anniversary of 9/11.