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Education Department stops $1 billion in funding for school mental health

NPR - Mental Health

Congress created the grants in the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The goal was to help schools hire mental health professionals, including counselors and social workers. Image credit: Jim Watson)

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Transforming mental health services

Critical Psychiatry

2) A renewed emphasis on teaching, training and supervising biopsychosocial approaches within professional education. The Biopsychosocial model has a long history but has struggled to gain a consistently prominent position within mental health work often in the face of bio-medical hegemony within psychiatry. (3)

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FDA Officially Eliminates Clozapine REMS

Psychiatric Times

The FDA's removal of clozapine REMS enhances access to treatment, while new educational initiatives empower clinicians to improve patient care.

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Teachers Should Focus on the Impact, Not the Approach, Education Scholar Says

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Educators have spent their careers concentrating on teaching techniques. But their focus on the delivery neglects an assessment of what and how students learn, says renowned education researcher John Hattie. Instead, teachers and education researchers should focus on evidence-based measures of learning outcomes.

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In Brain Chemistry We Trust—The Gospel According to Pharma

Mad in America

My colleagues and I became the architects of new forms of advertising, ones that expanded the definition of depression, presented the serotonin theory, and even educated physicians and patients about the diagnostic criteria of depression itself , so as to create ever-larger markets for psychiatric drugs.

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How Do Psychiatry Residents Learn Psychopharmacology?

Psychiatric Times

andrey_orlov/AdobeStock CLINICAL REFLECTIONS Medical education has traversed an evolving path over the past few decades. 2 Realizing that, modern medical educators often morph traditional Socratic questioning into the embedding of “audience response questions” (ARS) within formal presentations. to “Will this be on my patient?”

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Upcoming WHO Webinar: Launch of the Guide on Educating Medical and Nursing Students in Mental, Neurological and Substance Use Care

World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

The World Psychiatric Association (WPA) is pleased to share with its global community an important upcoming event hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO): the launch webinar of WHOs new guide, Educating Medical and Nursing Students in Mental, Neurological and Substance Use (MNS) Care.