Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing Perspective

 
 
  • ADAA 2023 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from ADAA 2023
  • EPA 2023 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from EPA 2023
  • S2 Episode 2: Schizophrenia, Relapse, and Use of Long-Acting Injectables   Drs John M. Kane and Jose Rubio-Lorente discuss the value of long-acting injectable formulations in reducing the risk for relapse and rehospitalization for patients diagnosed with schizophrenia.
  • S2 Episode 1: Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia   Drs John M. Kane and Jonathan Meyer discuss treatment-resistant schizophrenia, how common it is, how to detect and manage it, and how delays in the initiation of treatment negatively affect patients.
  • A 'Revolutionary' Treatment for Suicidal Depression: What's Next?   A novel TMS protocol is being hailed as a revolutionary treatment for patients with the severest depression. Steven M. Strakowski speaks with experts about what's next for this potential gamechanger.
  • 9 Things to Know About ARFID Identifying and treating the newly minted condition of avoidant restrictive food intake disorder requires asking the right questions, according to Dr William Balistreri.
  • S2 Episode 2: Cultural Competence in Treating Major Depressive Disorder   Drs Madhukar Trivedi and Lorenzo Norris address the issues of race, equity in care, and the importance of cultural competence when treating patients with major depressive disorder.
  • AAGP 2023 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from AAGP 2023
  • Can Artificial Intelligence Chat Bots Help Prevent Suicide?   Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, discusses the future of artificial intelligence in mental health.
  • How to Help Your Colleagues, Coworkers, and Staff Many people in your professional orbit may need you to step in and help them address mental health issues. Here's how to do that, one step at a time.
  • How Physicians Can Promote Their Own Mental Health Looking within — by identifying and delineating your positive and negative feelings, and how these feelings are manifested — can go a long way toward helping you determine your mental health status.
  • Physician Mental Health Challenges and Stigmas Many physicians keep their mental illness or mental challenges secret, for fear that acknowledging or admitting to depression, drug dependency, and other significant problems will derail their career.
  • Mental Health: What Is It? Because mental health is not often discussed in medical school and beyond, many physicians have difficulty addressing their patients' — and their own — emotional welfare.
  • Why You Should Prescribe Yoga for Your Patients and Yourself Yoga is the ideal model for four health-enhancing self-care practices.
  • Finding Catatonia Requires Knowing What to Look for Unlike common psychiatric syndromes, such as major depression, that are characterized by self-report of symptoms, catatonia is identified chiefly by empirically evaluated signs on clinical evaluation.
  • It's Wise to Hospitalize Mentally Ill Homeless People: Ethicist   Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, discusses a movement to identify and treat severely mentally ill homeless individuals.
  • Forced Hospitalization for Mental Illness Not a Permanent Solution A psychiatrist talks about the complexity of involuntarily hospitalizing unhoused people with mental illness and suggests that the problem is too big for a simplistic solution.
  • ADHD Beyond Medications Effective behavioral treatments for ADHD do not change symptoms of the condition, but they can help children learn how to manage them.
  • Medical Student Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic A psychiatry resident and professor, co-authors of a study on psychological impacts of the pandemic on US med students, share their thoughts about what they uncovered.
  • Physicians of the Year 2022: Best and Worst Find out more on the good deeds and groundbreaking research findings that define the best physicians of the past year — and just how bad the worst doctors could be.