Mental Health
Conference Coverage
High rates of med student burnout during COVID
Compared with male medical students, female medical students were more apt to exhibit signs of burnout, emotional exhaustion, and cynicism.
News
Don’t equate mass shootings with mental illness
There is no psychiatric diagnosis that includes the symptom of shooting strangers, or shooting children.
Commentary
What can we do about mass shootings?
Anger, hatred, racism, and evil may be ailments of the soul, but they are not mental illnesses.
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Childhood survivors of gun violence: What’s the long-term outlook?
While parents may be inclined to baby the kids after the violence, it’s important to maintain routines.
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Video game obsession: Definitions and best treatments remain elusive
But psychiatrists are gaining more insight into the condition also known as Internet gaming disorder.
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Cannabis vaping continues its rise in teens
Use of cannabis without vaping declined, but use of other substances also increased among adolescents who vaped cannabis.
From the Journals
Four mental health trajectories in youth: Predicting persistent psychopathology
Boys in childhood made up a larger proportion of the psychopathology profiles.
Opinion
How to make visits run more smoothly and be more productive
Some symptoms are so distressing and severe that symptomatic treatment is needed, but most aren’t.
Feature
ED staff speak out about workplace violence, ask for mitigation
How much is workplace violence contributing to the great resignation in health care and what might be done to make clinicians feel more supported...
Behavioral Consult
Anorexia nervosa in adolescent patients: What pediatricians need to know
Adolescents with anorexia nervosa are most likely to present to their pediatricians, so awareness and early recognition of the symptoms is...
Child Psychiatry Consult
When coping skills and parenting behavioral interventions ‘don’t work’
Coping skills and behavioral interventions do not immediately cure anxiety, mend broken hearts, correct disruptive behaviors, disentangle power...