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Olivia Fitzpatrick

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Child and Adolescent Suicide and Self Harm: Treatment and Prevention

Combining clinical wisdom, skill, and knowledge may allow us to shift the trend toward increasing suicide rates and provide care that helps youths build lives they want to live.


Jennifer Hughes, MD

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Child and Adolescent Suicide and Self Harm: Treatment and Prevention

Combining clinical wisdom, skill, and knowledge may allow us to shift the trend toward increasing suicide rates and provide care that helps youths build lives they want to live.


Aarya Krishnan Rajalakshmi, MD

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Reducing Suicide Risk: The Role of Psychotherapy

This article provides a brief synopsis of the research regarding the use of psychotherapy to manage suicidal behavior, followed by several examples of strategies that such treatment employs.


Umadevi Naidoo, MD

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Nutritional Psychiatry: The Gut-Brain Connection

Nutritional psychiatry is developing into a real opportunity for clinical intervention for patients who suffer from depression and anxiety.


David W. Reid, MD

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Rocko

Rocko’s story was like theirs-tragedy, survival, despair, resilience, family loyalty, and hope.


Michele Gaspar, DVM, LCPC

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A Psychiatrist, a Veterinarian, and an Emergency Physician Resolve to Improve Mental Health

Professionals in our fields are even more reluctant than the general public to seek mental health care because of stigma and negative career consequences. Here are 10 ways to address mental "unwellness."


Randall Levin, MD

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A Psychiatrist, a Veterinarian, and an Emergency Physician Resolve to Improve Mental Health

Professionals in our fields are even more reluctant than the general public to seek mental health care because of stigma and negative career consequences. Here are 10 ways to address mental "unwellness."


Chris Fitzpatrick, MB

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Monarchs and the President

The Monarch’s cortex, head of a pin, contains maps of Earth and heavens within...


Donald C. Fidler, MD, FRCP-I

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Calling on the Arts to Thrive During a Pandemic

The pandemic has driven a psychiatrist into isolation, but his long history in the arts helps him reconnect.


Adam Bartlett Hill, MD

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Mini Quiz: Health Professionals and Barriers to Psychiatric Treatment

In a national epidemic of caregiver distress and suicide, what barriers still stand in the way of seeking mental health treatment for medical professionals?


Julie E. Richards, PhDc, MPH

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An Integrated Care Approach to Identifying and Treating the Suicidal Person in Primary Care

Although psychiatrists may be better trained to treat suicidal patients, most patients with suicidal ideation are receiving care outside of specialty psychiatric settings and can benefit from interventions in primary care.


Rebecca Parrish, LICSW

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An Integrated Care Approach to Identifying and Treating the Suicidal Person in Primary Care

Although psychiatrists may be better trained to treat suicidal patients, most patients with suicidal ideation are receiving care outside of specialty psychiatric settings and can benefit from interventions in primary care.


Amy Lee, MPH

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An Integrated Care Approach to Identifying and Treating the Suicidal Person in Primary Care

Although psychiatrists may be better trained to treat suicidal patients, most patients with suicidal ideation are receiving care outside of specialty psychiatric settings and can benefit from interventions in primary care.


Katharine Bradley, MD, MPH

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An Integrated Care Approach to Identifying and Treating the Suicidal Person in Primary Care

Although psychiatrists may be better trained to treat suicidal patients, most patients with suicidal ideation are receiving care outside of specialty psychiatric settings and can benefit from interventions in primary care.


Ryan Caldeiro, MD

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An Integrated Care Approach to Identifying and Treating the Suicidal Person in Primary Care

Although psychiatrists may be better trained to treat suicidal patients, most patients with suicidal ideation are receiving care outside of specialty psychiatric settings and can benefit from interventions in primary care.


David W. Covington, LPC, MBA

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Mini Quiz: A New Dawn in Suicide Prevention

Psychiatric leadership is essential to the success of efforts toward mitigating suicide risk. That said, can suicide be prevented? Take the quiz and learn more.


Michael F. Hogan, PhD

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Zero Suicide: The Dogged Pursuit of Perfection in Health Care

More than a slogan, the zero suicide approach applies evidence about what works in the detection, treatment, and management of individuals with intense suicidality.


Nicole T. M. Hill, MBMSc

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Safe Communication About Suicide in the Digital Age

The incidence of suicidal ideation and self-harm behavior increases rapidly during adolescence and represents a period of heightened suicide risk.


Jo Robinson, PhD

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Safe Communication About Suicide in the Digital Age

The incidence of suicidal ideation and self-harm behavior increases rapidly during adolescence and represents a period of heightened suicide risk.


Simon Rice, PhD

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Mini Quiz: Peer-to-Peer Communication Guidelines About Suicide

Suicide is a leading cause of global mortality in those aged 25 years or younger. How can we promote safe communication about suicide in the digital age?


John Read, PhD

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Raising Doubts About ECT

ECT has been in use for decades, but does that mean it is safe or effective?


James Davies, PhD

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The International Antidepressant Withdrawal Crisis: Time to Act

This Letter to the Editor is in response to the article published in Psychiatric Times, “Sorting Out the Antidepressant ‘Withdrawal’ Controversy,” by Ronald W. Pies, MD and David N. Osser, MD.


Sarra Nazem, PhD

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Suicide Risk Assessment and Management: Tips for Improving Care and Outcomes

Determining how to ensure delivery of excellent care while balancing medicolegal demands may seem to be an impossible task. When done in a collaborative way, safety planning can help the clinician better understand risk and targets for intervention.


Christina Salama

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An Update on Pica: Prevalence, Contributing Causes, and Treatment

In this overview of pica, we review its causes and prevalence. In addition, we discuss some of the associated complications as well as current treatment strategies.


Elizabeth A. Varas, MD

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Don't Fear Older Medications and Treatments for Our Senior Patients

“Older medications” like ECT, lithium, second generation antipsychotics such as the olanzapine/fluoxetine combination, have proven efficacy.


Jose M. Rubio, MD

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Key Concepts About Polypharmacy in Psychotic Disorders

Clinicians should keep in mind the risk-to-benefit ratio considerations before initiating polypharmacy, especially if they have patients with prescriptions inherited from several sources. Here: A summary of recommendations about the use of polypharmacy in psychotic disorders.


Elizabeth Haase, MD

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The Plastics Crisis: A Neuropsychiatric Problem Hidden in Plain Sight

The impact of plastics on health is an area of increasing concern.


Omar Reda, MD

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The Power of Caring Adulthood Experiences

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


Traolach S. Brugha, MD

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Autism in Adulthood: Widespread, Invisible, Neglected, Misunderstood-Not Our Problem?

Autism was first described by child specialists, and even today most autism-specific services are focused only on children. This CME provides a comprehensive overview of autism in adults.


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