Psychiatric Times

JUNE 18, 2025

Given her young age and the described alterations in her behavior and cognition, these can be viewed as prodromal symptoms. The DSM-5 task force concluded that there was not enough evidence to justify incorporating APS as an official mental disorder diagnosis in Section II.

Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

APRIL 26, 2025

S purred on by narratives that street problems are caused by mental health issues rather than by worsening economic inequities, new bills expanding powers to involuntarily commit people have been leapfrogging each other in recent years from California and New York to Oregon , Oklahoma , Indiana and beyond.

Aging and mental health

Clear Behavioral Health

JULY 18, 2025

Obtaining professional mental health support can be challenging. Not only is there currently a shortage of mental health professionals, but searching for and finding the right one is often a daunting experience. “Artificial intelligence is a promising tool for enhancing mental health care.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

MARCH 28, 2025

Jasmine will attend appointments at campus health center as recommended by team members. She was in very acute distress because a middle-aged man in a white lab coat holding a clipboard and a clicky pen was sitting across the room evaluating her body, assessing it for enoughness. She exercises 1-3 hours/day by running and doing ballet.

Eating disorders

Mad in America

MARCH 19, 2025

A Professor Emeritus in the Education Department at Simon Fraser University, Dr. Sugarman has spent decades critically interrogating the ways mainstream psychology reflects and reinforces the ideologies of neoliberalism , shaping how we understand identity, mental health, and human development. You have instruments and measures.

Poverty and mental health

Behavioral Collective Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

District BCBA Tina Gunn and one of the district helping teachers, Julie Grundy have returned with a teacher, Alexis Wone, to chat about their implementation of the PFA and SBT process in a public education setting. She has extensive experience in the district working with special education students.

Education

Behavioral Collective Podcast

APRIL 3, 2023

Annie McLaughlin, BCBA and education lawyer Alexandra Rosenblatt join Erika to discuss this tricky area in which they specialize and provide some insights on how professionals can help collaborate with school teams and families throughout the IEP process. 5:20] Sometimes people start working with Annie first. What should we have for this?

Education

Child Mind Intitute

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The Current Landscape: A Need for Cultural Sensitivity Children and adolescents in LMICs face severe challenges that greatly affect their mental health, including high levels of poverty, exposure to child labor, violence, conflict, and limited access to education. Yet data on their mental health needs are severely lacking.

Poverty and mental health

Mad in America

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A vivid example is that healthcare professionals tend do classify the youngest in a classroom as having ADHD up to twice as often as their older classmates—due to their normal age-appropriate behavior: a stunning but long-known research finding that has insufficiently found its way to a broader audience. S.te.meerman@rug.nl

Genetics and mental health

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

APRIL 10, 2025

In an upcoming Clinical Psychological Science study, Ryan Yeung, a postdoctoral fellow at the Baycrest Academy for Research and Education, examined this trait in people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In the first study, participants ranged in age between 18 and 83. Mental imagery in psychological disorders.

Education

Child Mind Intitute

JANUARY 3, 2025

As parents, educators, and mental health professionals, we’re all grappling with the impact of technology on our kids. To develop tools that could help identify Problematic Internet Use (PIU) in adolescents from easily measurable metrics of physical health. How much screen time is too much? The challenge?

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

MARCH 4, 2025

S exual sanism permeates the ways our culture talks about and treats the mentally ill, queer people, and, more broadly, anyone who relates or reacts inappropriately to the world and people around them. They have some kind of underlying mental illness condition. How can you tell if someone is sexually deviant?

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

AUGUST 21, 2024

Beyond academia, he contributes significantly to public health policy as a member of the United Kingdom’s Department of Transport expert panel that introduced drug-driving regulations. Mark Horowitz is a clinical research fellow in psychiatry at the National Health Service (NHS) in London. We thought we’d write it.

Sleep and mental health

Now Psych

MAY 13, 2024

Understanding selective mutism is essential for parents, educators, and mental health professionals who work with children. Understanding Selective Mutism Definition Selective mutism (SM) is a relatively rare anxiety disorder that affects children, and, less commonly, adults.

Genetics and mental health

Child Mind Intitute

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Full disclosure Dr. Dewey recommends that parents let kids know about their own experience with learning issues in an age-appropriate way, using language the child can relate to. Family history is one piece of the puzzle that helps clinicians and educators better understand children and what they need emotionally and academically.

Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

AUGUST 1, 2024

They are willing to entertain my conjecture and have meaningful conversations where they have both educated me as well as seriously considered the observational and logical statements I present. THE STATE OF PSYCHOLOGY AND MENTAL HEALTHCARE TODAY I routinely rummage through all the biographies of professors at leading universities.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

OCTOBER 11, 2023

His writing offers unique insights into the hegemonic foundations of mental health and champions the role of narrative in therapy. His profound appreciation for the humanities guides his exploration of mental health, often through the lens of art and literature. Post-psychiatry introduces these questions to the field.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

R egardless of the context and cause, distress is increasingly interpreted and diagnosed as a mental illnesscommonly clinical depression and/or anxiety disorder. The biomedical approach to distress has spread beyond the health/mental health sector and has seeped into every sector of the community.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

OCTOBER 18, 2023

R ay Moynihan is an accomplished health journalist and author who has won several awards for his work. This applies in the mental illness world and everywhere in medicine. Helping widen the definitions of disease is a key part of marketing those pharmaceutical products. I started writing books. What was that about?

Pharmaceuticals

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

At the time I was working as a family recovery counselor with Family Outreach and Response (FOR), a progressive, forward-thinking agency that worked locally and internationally in advocating for recovery-oriented alternatives in mental health. I was first hospitalized at age 15 and again at 28, losing custody of my two small children.

Hospitality

Mad in America

JANUARY 22, 2025

She secured millions in federal funding to study the epidemiology of psychiatric drug use and to develop community-based strategies that reduce reliance on psychiatric labels and medicationsstrategies that also improved educational outcomes. When we looked at children diagnosed but not captured by school health records, the numbers doubled.

Education

Child Mind Intitute

APRIL 23, 2025

Yet, it persists, and that can weigh on families trying to make the best decisions about their childrens health. And people can be diagnosed with autism at any age. Before a vaccine was available, almost all children contracted measles before the age of 15. It was developed in 1971.

Autism spectrum

ADDitude

MAY 23, 2025

The MAHA Report , spearheaded by Health and Human Service (HHS) Secretary Robert F. It disregards the genetic underpinnings of ADHD to suggest it is caused by environmental factors and foods, twists data to stoke fear over rising diagnosis rates, and excludes a wealth of studies that link stimulant medication use to improved health outcomes.

Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

She was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 23, and she was ultimately hospitalized many times, right? Oh, that’s her ‘mental illness.’” What we tried just didn’t work out because we weren’t educated ourselves. I mean, we were educated as much as anybody was for those times. She took it seriously.

Hospitality

Lawyers with Depression

JANUARY 28, 2024

Depression is a mental health disorder that affects roughly 10 to 15 percent of the general population. This is the medical definition of depression. However, this definition fails to capture the experience of what its like to be depressed. Take your mental health seriously. and the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Moore: We’re here to talk about some of your experiences of the mental health system and polypharmacy, experiences which are beautifully captured in your book, May Cause Side Effects , published by Central Recovery Press in 2022. Thank you so much for joining me today for the Mad In America podcast. Everything is so reactive.

Self-awareness

Kids Mental Health Info

MAY 13, 2015

Definition and symptom list adapted from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP): All children and adolescents experience stressful events which can affect them both emotionally and physically. The post Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) appeared first on Kids Mental Health Info.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

His work spans everything from the cultural history of mental illness to mindfulness, death anxiety, and resiliencenot the hollow kind that comes from pretending everythings fine, but the kind that comes from staring into the void and refusing to flinch. On a personal note, Brent has played a foundational role in my own journey.

Genetics and mental health

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

These positive outcomes also include improved relational functioning, enhanced mentalization abilities, and increased quality of life. It is well established that ASD is linked to difficulties with an ability what Peter Fonagy and colleagues call mentalizing; a cognitive and emotional understanding of human behaviours.

Autism spectrum

Mad in America

JULY 30, 2024

Fear of other men runs deep here in our circle, here in the mad age of othering, here in a windowless building that looks like, from a distance, nothing more than a warehouse for storing things that no one else wants to deal with. I sit with a group of men who serve long-term sentences for violent crimes.

Education

Mad in America

JUNE 3, 2025

I n this article I will be proposing an early framework for a mental health intervention called depsychiatrization. Much has been written on the many ways in which psychiatry does harm to individuals seeking help for mental health issues: The medical treatments are far too often more harmful than beneficial, especially in the long run.

Trauma and the brain