Trauma And Violence

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.

Learn more about the latest research related to 9/11 trauma and other psychiatric comorbidities.

In this guest column, learn more about intensity, repetition, consistency, and integrity in rehabilitating neurological injury.

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.