Depression and Anxiety Disorders in Patients With Cancer
March 31st 2017Psychiatrists need to understand the patient’s cancer diagnosis, staging, treatments and their adverse effects, and prognosis to appreciate the challenges the patient is coping with throughout treatment as well as survivorship or end-of-life.
Burden, Belonging, and Capability: An Interpersonal View of Military Suicides
March 29th 2017It would be logical to attribute the surge of suicides in the military to simultaneous prolonged engagement in combat, repeated deployments, and attendant stress. But studies have failed to connect deployments to suicide risk.
A First-Episode Psychosis Treatment Program: “The Disease Doesn’t Define Me”
February 28th 2017The Psychiatric Transition Program at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego is a specialized first-episode psychosis program that provides coordinated specialty care to active-duty service members with serious mental illness.