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American Family Physician
August 15, 2002 |
Medicines for Mental Health During Pregnancy What mental problems may occur during pregnancy?... Can pregnancy cause these mental problems? Does it make them worse?... Are mental health medicines safe to use during pregnancy?... What should I do if I have a history of a mental disorder and want to get pregnant?... etc.   |
Managed Care
May 2004
MargaretAnn Cross |
Depression Programs Might Provide an Edge There may be some costs up front, but there is also an opportunity for health plans to profit as employers' concern about this issue grows. |
Managed Care
February 2002
Heidi A. Sauder & Sheri Wallace |
Push Is On for Improved Treatment of Women's Psychological Maladies Sure there are diagnostic and treatment challenges, but the money that can be saved for society might make this fertile ground for investment... |
Reason
January 2003
Jacob Sullum |
Head Games What are the rules for defining mental illness? |
Salon.com
May 25, 2000
J.B. Orenstein |
Who will care for the crazy? She was 18 and had been found hanging by a noose. But the moment I saw her insurer, I knew she was one of the lucky ones. |
Nurse Practitioner
March 2012
Vanya Hamrin et al. |
Evaluation and Management of Pediatric and Adolescent Depression The primary care setting is an appropriate venue for screening and identifying pediatric depression. Nurse practitioners can provide initial management or referral to psychiatric mental health professionals for evidence-based treatments. |
ifeminists
December 31, 2007
Tony Zizza |
Massachusetts Takes Wrong Turn On Mental Health Screening New regulations in Massachusetts require doctors to screen for possible mental health problems in children. |
ifeminists
December 5, 2008
Tony Zizza |
Don't We All Have A Personality Disorder? On December 2nd, the Fox News website posted this from the AP: "1 in 5 Young Adults Has Personality Disorder, Study Finds." Isn't this lovely? |
ifeminists
August 11, 2004
Tony Zizza |
The New Child Abuse: Mandatory Mental Health Screenings Politicians and pharmaceutical companies must believe there is something noble in the entire U.S. population being labeled with a mental disorder, and subsequently drugged. |
Job Journal
August 24, 2008 |
Career Snapshot: Psychiatrist Psychiatrists tend to the mental well-being of society. |
American Family Physician
October 1, 2000
Michael F. Gliatto, M.D. |
Generalized Anxiety Disorder Patients with generalized anxiety disorder experience worry or anxiety and a number of physical and psychologic symptoms... |
American Family Physician
October 15, 2004
Randy K. Ward |
Assessment and Management of Personality Disorders Patients with personality disorders are common in primary care settings; caring for them can be difficult. The characteristics of these patients' personalities tend to elicit strong feelings in physicians, lead to the development of problematic physician-patient relationships, and complicate the task of diagnosing and managing medical and psychiatric disorders. |
ifeminists
October 22, 2002
Tresa McBee |
Pass the Prozac Sparring spouses seek counseling, where they are diagnosed with "relational disorder," meaning the relationship is causing problems, not the people. Relational disorder is not a recognized mental illness. Yet. If two psychiatrists convince enough people, RD could be added to the DSM. |
American Family Physician
January 1, 2007 |
Depression in Children and Teens How to recognize depression in your children and resources available for more information. |
Nursing
April 2008
Kathryn Murphy |
Shedding the burden of depression & anxiety Learn about types of depression and available treatments. |
American Family Physician
August 15, 2002
Ward & Zamorski |
Benefits and Risks of Psychiatric Medications During Pregnancy Decisions regarding the use of psychiatric medications should be individualized, and the most important factor is usually the patient's level of functioning in the past when she was not taking medications. |
American Family Physician
January 15, 2002
Heather McNeill & Sarah Morgan |
Quantum Sufficit Lack of transportation, the stigma of mental disease, and denial may prevent older rural residents from seeking help for their memory problems... Fake cows help control tsetse-fly populations in Zimbabwe... etc. |
AskMen.com
Harold Russell |
Depression & Fatigue A recent study of adults showed fatigue and lethargy to be the most common and debilitating symptoms of depression. This finding could change the way that physicians treat this illness. |
AskMen.com
August 27, 2002
Dario Palombi |
Is Anxiety Ruining Your Life? You may not realize it now, but the fact that you spend the majority of your day in a state of mental distress may suggest that you are on your way to a severe mental collapse, and it will only get worse if left untreated. |
ifeminists
October 4, 2006
Tony Zizza |
Time To Boycott National Depression Screening Day In the U.S., whenever National Depression Screening Day rears its ugly head in the mainstream media every first week in October, we have the opportunity to review some serious doublethink that does not change much with each passing year. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2011
Samuel K. Moore |
Teaching Machines About Madness Software rivals doctors at distinguishing among different kinds of depression and schizophrenia |
ifeminists
June 21, 2006
Tony Zizza |
Tom Cruise Was - Right! In American, when even choosing to be a jerk in your automobile is now viewed as suffering from a mental disorder that requires therapy and drugs, psychiatry is 100% -- pseudoscience. |
Salon.com
March 9, 2000
Lawrence H. Diller, M.D. |
Kids on drugs A behavioral pediatrician questions the wisdom of medicating our children. |
ifeminists
February 16, 2005
Byron Fraser |
Marginalized No Longer! In Broken Brains or Wounded Hearts--What Causes Mental Illness, Ty C. Colbert elucidates his very innovative concept of a forced choice: the emotional pain model does not lay the blame on the individual, but eventually opens the door for him to take charge of his own life and set of choices. |
Managed Care
November 2003 |
States exempt psychiatric drugs in some Medicaid programs While states are implementing broad policies to control Medicaid costs, outpatient prescription psychiatric drugs are falling into newly created exemptions, according to a recent survey conducted by the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. |
American Family Physician
January 1, 2007
Shashi & Subhash Bhatia |
Childhood and Adolescent Depression Safe and effective treatment of major depression in this age group requires accurate diagnosis, suicide risk assessment, and use of evidence-based therapies. |
Job Journal
May 28, 2006
Rich Heintz |
Do You Have a Head for Mental Health Work? Would working in the field of mental health make you happy? Here is a look at some professions. |
ifeminists
March 24, 2009
Tony Zizza |
Mental health stats merit scrutiny I don't believe the mental health system in Tennessee, or in this country for that matter, faces a severe crisis. |
American Family Physician
June 15, 2006 |
Mental Retardation: What Caregivers Need to Know A caregiver's guide: What should I do about doctor visits for a person with mental retardation?... What if a person with mental retardation is hurt or acts strangely?... Who should make medical decisions for a person with mental retardation?... etc. |
Nursing Management
July 2011
Lisa Greenlund |
ED violence: Occupational hazard? Workplace violence is an occupational hazard for hospital staff providing psychiatric care in hospital EDs. |
Reason
May 2005
Jacob Sullum |
Thomas Szasz Takes on His Critics In Szasz Under Fire: The Psychiatric Abolitionist Faces His Critics, edited by Jeffrey A. Schaler, Szasz sticks to his guns and scores many points, but his responses are not always completely satisfying. |
American Family Physician
November 15, 2005
Haas et al. |
Management of the Difficult Patient All physicians must care for some patients who are perceived as difficult because of behavioral or emotional aspects that affect their care. Specific communication techniques and greater patient involvement in the process of care may enhance the relationship. |
ifeminists
September 15, 2004
Wendy McElroy |
Mandatory Mental Health Screening Threatens Privacy, Parental Rights The screenings may be used to force parents to put their children on psychiatric medication. Some parents who have refused to do so under current policies have been threatened or charged with "child abuse" for no other reason than their refusal. |
American Family Physician
October 15, 2003
Wanda P. Fremont |
School Refusal in Children and Adolescents School refusal is a problem that is stressful for children, families, and school personnel. Failing to attend school has significant short- and long-term effects on children's social, emotional, and educational development. |
Salon.com
May 25, 2000
Laura Miller |
"Of Two Minds" By T.M. Luhrmann A subtle study of the conflict between talk-oriented and drug-oriented psychotherapy -- and a frightening demonstration of how medical budget cutters are betraying the mentally ill and putting the rest of us at risk. |
ifeminists
November 17, 2004
Byron Fraser |
Review: Your Drug May Be Your Problem Excerpts from the book Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications by Peter Breggin and David Cohen delineating the adverse effects of these medications and how to stop taking them. |
Managed Care
December 2005
Lola Butcher |
Kansas City Focuses on Depression Health plans, researchers, employers, and workers make common cause to identify and treat depression. |
American Family Physician
February 15, 2005
Ham, Waters & Oliver |
Treatment of Panic Disorder Panic disorder with or without agoraphobia occurs commonly in patients in primary care settings. This article assesses multiple evidence-based reviews of effective treatments for panic disorder. |
American Family Physician
April 15, 2005
Huntzinger & Coughlin |
Quantum Sufficit - Just Enough Most diets don't work. Anybody surprised?... Having a grandparent with depression greatly increases the risk of mental disorders in children... A host of germs was found lurking in several popular health clubs... |
ifeminists
January 26, 2005
Tony Zizza |
NAMI Is Dead Wrong On Mental Health Screening It's time to relentlessly put President Bush's mental health screening monster and groups like NAMI in their place. Mandatory mental health screening is child abuse. |
ifeminists
May 25, 2005
Tony Zizza |
The American Psychiatric Association Is Actually The American Pill Association Psychiatry has become the legalized practice of prescribing pills, rather than the purposeful practice of assisting us with problems of the heart and soul. |
Managed Care
October 2002
John Carroll |
National Mental Health Parity Bill Poised To Pass This Time Around After years of skirmishing over mental health parity, the battle lines are drawn. Troops are armed with a cache of talking points and data -- pro and con. And, after a brief summer truce, another big showdown looms on Capitol Hill. |
Managed Care
May 2002
Michael S. Victoroff |
Psychologist Prescribing: Not Such a Crazy Idea New Mexico has just granted medication-prescribing authority to certain certified Ph.D psychologists -- a development with broad potential implications for the field of mental health. It's a bold precedent |
American Family Physician
March 15, 2007
Freedy & Simpson |
Disaster-Related Physical and Mental Health: A Role for the Family Physician Family physicians should be prepared to work with other health care professionals in the community to share the collective load in meeting post-disaster health needs; such partnerships should be established well in advance of a disaster. |
AskMen.com
Julian Marcus |
Are You Bipolar? Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is one of the least understood and potentially most destructive mental health disorders. |
AskMen.com
January 6, 2001
Joshua Levine |
Dealing With Depression Clinical depression is an illness characterized by a cluster of feelings, thoughts and behaviors that are strikingly different from a person's normal range of feeling and functioning... |
American Family Physician
August 15, 2006
Liz Smith |
Newsletter IOM Report Finds Medication Errors Injure 1.5 Million Persons Annually... CCHIT Completes First Round of Ambulatory EHR Product Certification... AAFP Study Examines Reasons for Family Medicine Residency Closures... etc. |
ifeminists
May 10, 2006
Tony Zizza |
Is It Time To Boycott Parade Magazine? Once again Parade magazine is helping pharmaceutical companies sell depression and its drugs. If we are to take AstraZeneca seriously, and bipolar disorder seriously, then we must completely reject the idea of free will, personal responsibility, and good/bad consequences. |
Psychology Today
Mar/Apr 2009
Kathleen McGowan |
Good Morning, Heartache Depression is a daily reality against which millions struggle. Many have found a variety of strategies to help them not just survive, but thrive. |
Salon.com
May 26, 2000
Dawn MacKeen |
Shrinks under scrutiny Should shrinks probe the violent fantasies of patients? They often don't. And that failure can be tragic. |
