Topics: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) | Assessment | Minority | pandemic | Toxic Stress | Trauma | Trauma Informed Care

Trauma is a ubiquitous and expanding aspect of all mental health work, particularly in the age of the pandemic. Trauma Informed Care (TIC) is a necessary lens through which we need to assess and treat our patients. This article reviews the principles of TIC and offers practical tips for integrating TIC into your everyday practice.

Topics: Depression | Diversity | Gender | Gender Diverse | Gender Identity | LGBT | LGBTQ+ | Minority | Pronouns | Stigma | Suicide | TGD | Transgender

What are the risks for depression and suicide with transgender patients and how can we provide the best care for them? We interviewed Alex Keuroghlian, MD, MPH. Director, National LGBT Health Education Center at The Fenway Institute and Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry Gender Identity Program.

Topics: Affordable Care Act (ACA) | Culture | Diversity | Interpreter | Language | Translator

Many of us work in settings where we do not speak the language of our patients. The law requires that we have help understanding our patients. This is good sense and good care, but there are multiple pitfalls. This article helps you navigate the necessary of using interpreters.

Topics: Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BFST) | Child Psychiatry | Culture | Diversity | expressed emotion | Minority | Promotoras

Read our interview with Dr. Andres Pumariega, MD. Professor and Chief, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, who offers truly sage and actionable advice about how to approach, understand and address issues of culture and diversity in child and adolescent psychiatry.

Topics: Autism | Autism Spectrum Disorder | Fluoxetine | Perseveration | Perseverative Behavior | Prozac | Repetitive Behavior | SSRIs | Stereotypical Behavior

Repetitive behaviors are part and parcel of the everyday challenges in autism spectrum disorders. The apparent similarly of these behaviors with obsessive compulsive disorders begs for trials of SSRIs such as fluoxetine (Prozac). But does this strategy work with any clear reliability? This research reviews addresses that question, with interesting results that impact everyday practice.

Topics: 13 Reasons Why | Contagion | Media | Netflix | Suicide | teens

Remember the last two times we’ve worried about the program 13 Reasons Why? Now yet another study has found risk for teens watching 13 Reasons Why, and we are learning about gender differences as well. See the review and get our recommended resources for guiding families.

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