Patient-Provider Relations in Psychiatry & Mental Health

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Collections of Medscape's key clinical content, selected by our editors - Last updated 08/14/2007

This Resource Center will cover topics that cut across diagnostic categories in psychiatry, such as stigma, empowerment, and patient-psychiatrist communication. Some topics will fit within forensic psychiatry, such as advanced directives; seclusion and restraint; and confidentiality. Ideas for new articles and categories are welcome. To submit suggestions, please click here.

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FOCUS ON
Webcast Video Editorial - The Disappearing PatientWebcast Video Editorial - The Disappearing Patient
David Hellerstein, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University in New York, makes a plea for psychiatry to put the patient back into the mix.
Americans' Willingness to Seek Mental-Health Help Increased Over Past Decade Americans' Willingness to Seek Mental-Health Help Increased Over Past Decade
Americans were more willing and less embarrassed to seek mental health treatment in 2001-2003 than in 1990-1992, according a recent study.
Special Features
'Dr Dork' Unmasks His Struggles With Depression, Perfectionism"Dr Dork" Unmasks His Struggles With Depression, Perfectionism
from Medscape Medical Students, Posted 04/10/2007
With wit as his weapon, an Aussie doctor describes his battles against demons that plague him and many others in the medical profession.
Narrative Medicine Creates Alliance With Patients
from Medscape Med Students, Posted 01/19/2006
By learning to fully listen to patients and to accurately portray their illnesses in writing, caregivers can learn to understand both their patients and themselves better.

 
Latest from the Literature
Service Responses for Youth Onset Mental DisordersService Responses for Youth Onset Mental Disorders
from Curr Opin Psychiatry. 2007;20(4):319-324.
Interventions and consideration of new mental health service models are emphasized more due to highest first-onset rates of many mental disorders in youth. How can such strategies be most effective?
A Suicide Right for the Mentally Ill? A Swiss Case Opens a New Debate
from Hastings Cent Rep. 2007;37(3):21-23.

 
Expert Interviews
Ethical Considerations in Medication-Free Research With Schizophrenia Patients: An Expert Interview With William T. Carpenter, Jr., MDEthical Considerations in Medication-Free Research With Schizophrenia Patients: An Expert Interview With William T. Carpenter, Jr., MD
from Medscape Psychiatry & Mental Health, Posted 10/25/2006
thumbnailAn Empowerment Model of Recovery From Severe Mental Illness: An Expert Interview With Daniel B. Fisher, MD, PhD
from Medscape Psychiatry & Mental Health, Posted 01/20/2005

 
CME Programs
CME Most Patients Prefer Their Physicians to Greet Them With a Handshake and Introduction
from Medscape Medical News, Posted 07/19/2007
CME/CE Group Identity, Self-Disclosure, and the Self-Stigma of Mental Illness
from Medscape Psychiatry & Mental Health, Posted 12/20/2006

 
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