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The 6 Steps to Catalyze CBT and DBT With Young Patients

Psychiatric Times

Guilford Press; 2012. Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder. Principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders in children. Clinical Practice of Cognitive Therapy With Children and Adolescents: The Nuts and Bolts, 2nd ed. Guilford Press; 2015. Persons JB. Guilford Press; 1993.

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Postpartum Depression with Comorbid Anxiety: Optimizing Treatment

MGH Center for Women's Mental Health

Validated instruments such as the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) can identify anxiety symptoms; however, screening can be supplemented with anxiety-specific screening instruments , such as the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale (GAD-7) and the Perinatal Anxiety Screening Scale (PASS).

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Anxiety Medication: Wellbutrin and Other Anti-Anxiety Medications 

Clear Behavioral Health

Most people have experienced anxiety at one time or another in their lifetime. Other people have been diagnosed with anxiety disorders , which is an ongoing mental health condition. Anxiety can be managed with multiple approaches, like talk therapy, lifestyle changes, and medication management. Cleveland Clinic.

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Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of “Whack-A-Mole”?

Mad in America

This turn to ketamine is occurring despite the fact that the Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly warned that the FDA has not approved ketamine for the treatment of any psychiatric disorder (though controversially approving esketamine nasal spray).

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How Pretend Play Helps Children Build Skills

Child Mind Intitute

Keough, PhD Psychologist, Anxiety Disorders Center Child Mind Institute Pretend play, also known as imaginative play, includes a range of imaginative behaviors and actions that become more complex over early childhood (Lillard et al., By Kathryn L. Harvard University Press. Children and play: Understanding children’s worlds.

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We Can’t Help People With Trauma If We Can’t Say Trauma

Mad in America

The same has happened with other words that have been de-closeted, such as depression, anxiety, and OCD. In 2012, I created a Facebook page called Trauma Informed Parent a resource for parents and caregivers of children who have experienced trauma. There are even trauma-informed schools.