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Posted on May 14, 2015 August 24, 2018

Depressive Disorders - FPN

Friday's Progress Notes
Mental Health Information
May 2015 - Vol. 19 Issue 5
Published by At Health, LLC

1. MEDSCAPE
Depression
This article focuses on major depressive disorder in adults.

2. SOCIAL WORK PODCAST
Social workers and depression: Interview with Mark Meier, MSW, LICSW
This podcast explores the subject that social workers are three times as likely to be depressed as people in the
general population.

3. AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN
Treatment of Childhood and Adolescent Depression
The prevalence of depression is estimated to be about 3% percent in children younger than 13 years and 6% in
adolescents 13 to 18 years of age.

4. COUNSELING TODAY
The Hope Chest: Unpacking the Hurt
When working with suicidal teens, I have found it useful to tell them about the invisible box that we each carry.

5. CURRENT PSYCHIATRY ONLINE
Can social media help mental health practitioners prevent suicides?
As platforms for self-expression, social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr are sources of real-time information that could aid in suicide prevention. (Complimentary registration required.)

6. AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST
Mindfulness holds promise for treating depression
New research suggests that practicing mindfulness may help prevent a relapse.

7. CURRENT PSYCHIATRY ONLINE
Depressed and sick with ‘nothing to live for’
Assessments can be challenging in depressed patients, often because of the uncertain role of features such as
hopelessness, anhedonia, and passive death wish in the decision-making process.

8. AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (APA)
Can magnets cure depression?
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is gaining ground as a therapy for treatment-resistant depression.

9. INNOVATIONS IN CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE
The Bereavement Exclusion and DSM-5: An Update and Commentary
The removal of the bereavement exclusion in the diagnosis of major depression was perhaps the most controversial change from DSM-IV to DSM-5.

10. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY
Practice-Based Versus Telemedicine-Based Collaborative Care for Depression in Rural Federally Qualified Health Centers.
Telemedicine-based collaborative care virtually co-locates and integrates mental health providers into primary care settings.

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Posted on May 14, 2015 August 27, 2018

Substance Use Disorders - FPN

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Mental Health Information
April 2015 - Vol. 19 Issue 4
Published by At Health, LLC

1. AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS
Substance Use Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment for Pediatricians
As a component of comprehensive care, adolescents should receive appropriate guidance regarding substance use during routine clinical care.

2. NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE
Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment: A Research-Based Guide (Third Edition)
This website presents a number of evidence-based behavioral therapies shown to be effective in addressing substance abuse.

3. NATIONAL QUALITY FORUM
Evidence-Based Treatment Practices for Substance Use Disorders
After extensive discussion of the candidate evidence-based practices and the criteria for selecting those of the highest priority, participants identified seven core practices for SUD management.

4. AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (APA)
Defining and Characterizing Differences in College Alcohol Intervention Efficacy: A Growth Mixture Modeling Application
This paper shows that there are two primary subpopulations of college drinkers with regard to intervention efficacy as well as four minor ones.

5. SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION (SAMHSA)
Substance Abuse Treatment: Addressing the Specific Needs of Women
Women with substance use disorders have unique biopsychosocial needs that should be addressed if their treatment is to be successful.

6. COUNSELING TODAY
Working through ambivalence with adolescent substance abusers
Clients are more likely to attempt change and to persevere after relapse if the counselor has taken the time to get to know them and shared positive affirmations with them.

7. COUNSELING TODAY
Hidden in plain sight
To genuinely help these clients — who may or may not recognize their substance use problems — counselors of all stripes and specialties need to educate themselves about addiction. This knowledge includes the various types of addiction, how to spot addiction, how to help treat it and when to refer clients for more intense or specialized help.

8. CURRENT PSYCHIATRY ONLINE
After substance withdrawal, underlying psychiatric symptoms emerge
When treating patients who abuse substances, it is important to watch for underlying clinical conditions that have been suppressed, relieved, or muted by alcohol or drugs.

9. MEDSCAPE
Alcohol and Substance Abuse Evaluation
This article provides a brief review of the physiologic effects as well as the signs and physiologic effects of withdrawal of alcohol, cocaine, opiates, amphetamines, and hallucinogens.

10. THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER
When “Just Say No” is Not Enough: Teaching Harm Reduction
Social work education is designed to prepare eclectic practitioners and critical thinkers who utilize social work ethical principles to guide professional practice.

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Washington DC - ISSN: 1520-3662

Posted on March 14, 2015 August 24, 2018

Personality Disorders - FPN

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Mental Health Information
March 2015 - Vol. 19 Issue 3
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1. AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (APA)
Personality Disorders in the DSM-5
Dr. Thomas Widiger examines the outcome of the proposed changes to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) by the Personality and Personality Disorders Work Group, and offers suggestions for future revisions.

2. THE LANCET
Classification, assessment, prevalence, and effect of personality disorder
Many people with personality disorder remain undetected in practice and might be given treatments that are ineffective or harmful as a result. (Requires free registration)

3. NATIONAL CENTER for BIOTECHNOLOGY INFORMATION (NCBI)
Personality disorders at the interface of psychiatry and the law: legal use and clinical classification
This paper addresses expert testimony about personality disorders, outlines how they are assessed in forensic cases, and describes how they are viewed in different legal contexts.

4. PSYCHIATRIC ANNALS
Treatment Advances in Borderline Personality Disorder
Counselors, as part of a multidisciplinary treatment team of helping professionals, can play a critical role in the lives of people diagnosed with schizophrenia.

5. MEDSCAPE
Clinical Differentiation of Bipolar II Disorder From Borderline Personality Disorder
Misdiagnosis of BP II as a BPD can risk extensive periods on nondrug treatments when the individual might benefit from a mood stabilizer, whereas misdiagnosis of BPD as a bipolar disorder can conversely risk inappropriate pharmacological treatment. (Requires free registration)

6. CURRENT PSYCHIATRY ONLINE
Be Wary When Sociopaths Turn on the Charm
When treating antisocial patients, remaining vigilant to the inherent challenges of working with them, stay within strict boundaries, and keep therapy from going adrift.

7. JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY DISORDERS
Paranoid Personality Disorder
PPD appears to bear genetic and epidemiological relationships to schizophrenia, and it may
be closely related to delusional disorder.

8. MEDSCAPE
Avoidant Personality Disorder
Many family members find themselves cut out of treatment plans, particularly if the diagnosed individual is an adult. As a result, the families of those who are mentally ill may feel isolated and alone as they struggle to make sense of the changes.

9. MAYO CLINIC
Antisocial personality disorder
There may be a link between an early lack of empathy — understanding the perspectives and problems of others, including other children — and later onset of antisocial personality disorder.

10. JOURNAL OF ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY
Narcissistic Personality Disorder and the DSM–V
The authors address three issues relevant to narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and the DSM–V.

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Borderline Personality Disorder
In these interviews, three experts discuss various aspects of diagnosing and treating borderline personality disorder. Learn more...

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Posted on February 13, 2015 September 28, 2015

Schizophrenia - FPN

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Mental Health Information
February 2015 - Vol. 19 Issue 2
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1. NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH (NIMH)
What Is Schizophrenia?
About 1% of Americans have this illness. Schizophrenia affects men and women equally. It occurs at similar rates in all ethnic groups around the world. Symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions usually start between ages 16 and 30.

2. INNOVATIONS IN CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE
Assessment of Everyday Functioning in Schizophrenia
Clinicians who are assessing deficits in cognition and everyday functioning need to consider the source of the information obtained before making treatment and placement decisions.

3. MEDSCAPE
Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia
Childhood-onset schizophrenia is a severe form of psychotic disorder that occurs at age 12 years or younger and is often chronic and persistently debilitating. (Complimentary registration required.)

4. COUNSELING TODAY
What Counselors Need to Know About Schizophrenia
Counselors, as part of a multidisciplinary treatment team of helping professionals, can play a critical role in the lives of people diagnosed with schizophrenia.

5. E-MEDICINE
Schizoaffective Disorder
Schizoaffective disorder is a perplexing mental illness that has both features of schizophrenia and features of a mood disorder. The coupling of symptoms from these divergent conditions makes diagnosing and treating schizoaffective patients difficult.

6. PSYCHIATRY ONLINE
Overdiagnosis of Schizophrenia Said to Be Persistent Among Black Patients
Cultural mistrust, or a “healthy paranoia,” may be related to the overdiagnosis of schizophrenia among African Americans.

7. MEDSCAPE
Motivational Interviewing of People With Schizophrenia
Effective treatment for people with schizophrenia combines medication management with psychiatric rehabilitation strategies. Proponents of psychiatric rehabilitation believe that effective services of any kind begin with an assessment of the person's goals. (Complimentary registration required.)

8. COUNSELING TODAY
Inviting Families Into the Support Circle
Many family members find themselves cut out of treatment plans, particularly if the diagnosed individual is an adult. As a result, the families of those who are mentally ill may feel isolated and alone as they struggle to make sense of the changes.

9. AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN
Schizophrenia (Maintenance Treatment)
One in 100 persons will develop schizophrenia; about 75 percent of persons have relapses and continued disability, and one third fail to respond to standard treatment.

10. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY
Looking Schizophrenia in the Eye
Schizophrenia and other serious psychiatric disorders gained resources and enhanced validity, as well as some reduction in stigma, when they were acknowledged to be brain disorders. Perhaps the next era in psychiatry must approach schizophrenia as a systemic disease that first presents as altered behavior rather than as a brain disease per se.

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Posted on January 8, 2015 August 27, 2018

Eating Disorders - FPN

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Mental Health Information
January 2015 - Vol. 19 Issue 1
Published by athealth.com

1. Practice Guideline - Eating Disorders
2. Eating Disorders in Adolescents With a History of Obesity
3. Frequency and Patterns of Eating Disorder Symptoms in Early Adolescence
4. Behavioral and Psychological Factors in Obesity
5. Losing weight, but not healthy
6. The powerful perspective of body satisfaction
7. DSM-5 Feeding and Eating Disorders
8. Psychological Treatments for Binge Eating Disorder (BED)
9. Eating Problems after Bariatric Surgery
10. The Impact of Body Image on Patient Care

1. PSYCHIATRY ONLINE
Practice Guideline - Eating Disorders
This comprehensive practice guideline was developed and reviewed by psychiatrists, researchers, and other clinicians throughout North America and Europe.

2. AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS
Eating Disorders in Adolescents With a History of Obesity
Obese adolescents are at significant risk of developing an eating disorder, yet due to their higher weight status their symptoms often go unrecognized and untreated.

3. JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH
Frequency and Patterns of Eating Disorder Symptoms in Early Adolescence
Eating disorder behaviors and cognitions are common in early adolescence and are negatively associated with a series of social and psychological outcomes.

4. JOURNAL OF LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL
Behavioral and Psychological Factors in Obesity
Because the psychological aspects of obesity are so important, psychological assessments and interventions have become an integral part of a multidisciplinary approach to treating obesity.

5. AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (APA)
Losing weight, but not healthy
Obese teenagers are just as likely to develop eating disorders as the general population.

6. COUNSELING TODAY
The powerful perspective of body satisfaction
Every January, right as the new year begins, we are saturated by commercials, advertisements and stories of people whose lives were transformed upon attaining the elusive goals of slimness and fitness.

7. AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION (APA)
DSM-5 Feeding and Eating Disorders
A primary goal is for more people experiencing eating disorders to have a diagnosis that accurately describes their symptoms and behaviors.

8. NATIONAL CENTER for BIOTECHNOLOGY INFORMATION (NCBI)
Psychological Treatments for Binge Eating Disorder (BED)
This paper reviews research on psychological treatments for BED, including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT).

9. EATING DISORDERS REVIEW
Eating Problems after Bariatric Surgery
Multidisciplinary interventions are needed to help patients both prepare for surgery and achieve optimal weight loss and psychosocial adjustment afterward.

10. PRIMARY CARE COMPANION
The Impact of Body Image on Patient Care|
When considering body image, it may be helpful to remember the often-used phrases: "beauty is in the eyes of the beholder," "beauty is only skin deep," and "never judge a book by its cover."

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