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The 6 Steps to Catalyze CBT and DBT With Young Patients

Psychiatric Times

The diary card is a core DBT tool that prompts patients to document daily ratings of emotions, skills use, medication adherence, and other behavioral metrics. Persons JB. Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder. Guilford Press; 2015. The Case Formulation Approach to Cognitive-Behavior Therapy.

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Tardive Dyskinesia: Treat Functional Impairment, Not the AIMS Score

Psychiatric Times

This 60-year gap likely contributed to the progressive decrease in screening, documenting, and discussing the cause and course of TD with patients.

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The Quiet Crisis in Mental Health: The Medicalization and Deskilling of Psychotherapy

Mad in America

Fast-track certifications and accelerated clinical degree programs reduce therapy to a mix of buzzwords, enabling therapists to meet insurance documentation standards without true understanding or application. These surface-level applications mask the growing gap between therapeutic labels and actual clinical practice.

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Using Serum Drug Levels

Psychiatric Times

Finally, it provides documentation to justify why the medication was stopped or increased to off-label dosages, or to explain the clinical appropriateness of the treatment plan to an insurance company or colleague.

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Levels, Labs, and Lessons

Psychiatric Times

Over the next 3 months her clozapine dose was slowly increased to 600 mg by mouth at bedtime, with a steady-state 12-hour postdose clozapine level documented at 546 ng/mL. Her repeat 12-hour postdose clozapine level was documented as 517 ng/mL. A 12-hour post-clozapine level returned at 378 ng/mL. Discussion.

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Depression: Biological or Psychological?

Mad in America

Four publications have documented how these are fabrications, not the studys findingsa major example of research fraud. It continues to be the best treatment for this disorder. They have succeeded in leading the public (and other doctors) to believe these drugs are of great value when that is not at all what the study found.

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Intergenerational Gaps and the Role of Technology in Psychiatric Leadership: A Trainee’s Perspective

Psychiatric Times

10 For younger generations, particularly Millennials and Gen Z, the use of EHRs is second nature, streamlining documentation and improving access to patient history and data analysis. 9 Another major technological shift in medicine has been the integration of electronic health records (EHRs).