Behavioral Strategies for Suicide Prevention

Topics: Depressive Disorder | Free Articles | Psychotherapy

What can you do—beyond prescribing medications—to help your patients who have suicidal ideation? There are many strategies that you can teach your patients, even in the context of brief psychopharm visits. In this article, I’ll describe eight behavioral strategies that your patients are likely to find helpful. They are adapted from cognitive behav

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Children and Adolescents

Topics: Child Psychiatry | Psychotherapy

CCPR: Welcome, Dr. Scarlet. We hear a lot about a variety of therapies for children and adolescents, including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT). More recently, we are hearing a lot about acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). Can you tell us what ACT is? Dr. Scarlet: ACT seeks to teach us to mindfully observ

Diagnosing and Treating Narcissism

Topics: Psychotherapy

TCPR: Dr. Malkin, it seems to me that in psychiatry we’ve gotten out of the habit of diagnosing narcissistic character traits in our patients, yet many patients do have these traits, and this can cause a lot of distress. I’d like to start by asking you to define narcissism. Dr. Malkin: At its heart, pathological narcissism is a desperate need to fe

Some Helpful CBT Techniques for Specific Disorders

Topics: Practice Tools and Tips | Psychotherapy | Registered Articles

When we first set about planning this article, its working title was “The Most Evidence-Based Psychotherapies.” But as we scoured the literature, it became clear that there’s no scientific consensus about which techniques are best (one exception to this being techniques for OCD—see page 3). In fact, the latest official statement on the subject b

CME Post-Test - Street Drugs, CATR, March/April 2017

Topics: Addiction | Practice Tools and Tips | Psychopharmacology | Psychotherapy | Research Update | Substance Abuse

The post-test for this issue is available for one year after the publication date to subscribers only (December 31, 2017). By successfully completing the test you will be awarded a certificate for 2 CME credits. Click here to take your CME test. Note: All of the CME tests are available in the “My Account” section of the site when you are log

Managing Pain: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapist’s Approach [Free Article]

Topics: Addiction | Pharmaceutical Industry | Practice Tools and Tips | Psychopharmacology Tips | Psychotherapy | Substance Abuse

Evaluating and Treating Pain in Psychiatric Patients

Topics: Addiction | Practice Tools and Tips | Psychopharmacology Tips | Psychotherapy | Substance Abuse

Managing Pain: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapist’s Approach

Topics: Addiction | Pharmaceutical Industry | Practice Tools and Tips | Psychopharmacology Tips | Psychotherapy | Substance Abuse

As a clinical psychologist with a specialty in chronic pain management, I am often referred patients with both chronic pain and psychiatric issues. Many of these patients see a psychiatrist and a therapist, and are taking with both psychotropic and pain medications. The referral is often made because there is a sense that psychological issues are compli

Five Psychoanalytic Concepts for Your Practice [Free Article]

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Five Psychoanalytic Concepts for Your Practice

Topics: Practice Tools and Tips | Psychotherapy

Psychoanalytic training may not be right for you, but here are some analytic concepts that can be useful to anyone practicing psychiatry. ~ The unconscious: Patients are often unaware of patterns of behavior and their underlying conflicts. Unacceptable feelings like aggression and sadness may be banned from conscious thought, and therefore inaccessib

Anger, Anxiety, and Pain: A Description of an Analytic Session

Topics: Practice Tools and Tips | Psychotherapy

The patient is a 31-year-old, single female attorney, who was referred by her primary care physician for somatic complaints that have been worked up thoroughly, with normal results. In the past, she has been worried about and has pursued various diagnoses, including endometriosis, neurofibromatosis, and ovarian cancer, and has doctor-shopped when told h

Conduct Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder: A Primer

Topics: Child Psychiatry | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy | Free Articles | Practice Tools and Tips | Psychotherapy

Vignette: Richie was a 15-year-old boy referred for evaluation after multiple run-ins with the police for drug possession, fighting, and shoplifting. Richie was the oldest of three boys and looked up to a gang-involved cousin who was in prison for drug trafficking. The patient was enrolled in multisystemic therapy (MST) for both treatment and further e

The Diagnosis and Treatment of Hoarding Disorder [Free Article]

Topics: DSM | Psychotherapy

HIPAA in 2014: What Clinicians Need to Know

Topics: HIPAA | Practice Tools and Tips | Psychotherapy

Visit www.phyllispatrick.com for tools and resources for understanding the omnibus rule and other HIPAA regulations.

Ethical Considerations in the Practice of Telepsychiatry

Topics: Practice Tools and Tips | Psychotherapy

Telepsychiatry is a broad term. In this article I will use it to refer to mental health treatment provided via video chat (such as FaceTime or Skype), where clinicians and patients are in non-clinical settings (such as their homes). Our professional code of ethics is the same whether we treat patients in person or via video chat. However, nuances spe

Social Media Presents New Challenges

Topics: Practice Tools and Tips | Psychotherapy

For people who work in healthcare, navigating the world of social media is a balancing act between a tell-all online culture and the need to protect the privacy of their patients and clients. And if healthcare practitioners face a greater challenge than many other professionals, those in the behavioral health field may be at the top of the heap. They

Think Like a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist

Topics: Psychotherapy

Family Therapy for Serious Illness and Death

Topics: Depressive Disorder | Psychotherapy

Prolonged Exposure Therapy Successful in Treating Teen Rape Victims

Topics: Psychotherapy | Research Updates

Treating Sexual Abusers

Topics: Psychotherapy