Helping Families Through the COVID-19 Pandemic

Topics: Coronavirus | COVID19 | online therapy | pandemic | Telehealth | Telemedicine | Telepsychiatry

The coronavirus has called on skills that few of us learned in our training. But you don’t need to be an epidemiologist or mental health expert to take some basic steps that will make this pandemic easier for your patients and families. Telepsychiatry Telehealth is becoming the norm, not the exception, and many private practices have shifted to ph

Diagnosing and Treating Stimulant Use Disorders

Topics: contingency management | Diagnosis | Harm reduction | online therapy | Pharmacotherapy | Psychotherapy | Stimulants

CATR: Welcome, Dr. dela Cruz. Tell us what you do. Dr. dela Cruz: I’m an assistant professor at UT Southwestern Medical School where I’m the adult psychiatry residency associate program director, and I teach medical students, residents, and fellows. Clinically, I’m an outpatient addiction psychiatrist where I treat a variety of patients with subs