General Psychiatry - Articles - Page 123

Evaluating and Treating Pain in Psychiatric Patients

September 1, 2016

Michael Robert Clark, MD Associate professor & director of the Chronic Pain Treatment Program at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD Dr. Clark discloses that he has been a paid consultant to Collegium Pharmaceutical Inc. and Depomed, Inc. Dr. Carlat has reviewed this article and has found no evidence of bias in this educational activity.

Many chronic pain patients are dealing with psychiatric problems. Pain patients have tremendously high rates of major depressive disorder which is undertreated and underdiagnosed. It's easy to assume that the depression is a reaction to living with chronic pain, but in fact it’s often the other way around. Dr. Michael Robert Clark describes evaluations and treatment methods clinicians can use to address pain management with their patients.

Treating Complicated Grief: Grief-Focused Psychotherapy Is More Effective Than Citalopram

September 1, 2016

Bret A. Moore, Psy.D, ABPP

Bret A. Moore, Psy.D, ABPP Board-Certified Clinical Psychologist, San Antonio, TX Dr. Moore has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

While there is some overlap with major depression, complicated grief has core symptoms of yearning and sorrow and great difficulty accepting the reality of death. It’s one of the more controversial proposed DSM disorders, with critics seeing it as medicalizing a normal human experience.

July 25, 2016

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What’s New with the FDA Labeling for Pregnancy and Lactation?

July 25, 2016

Talia Puzantian, PharmD, BCPP

We’ve been hearing for some time now about the FDA’s plans to revise the long-standing categories A, B, C, D, and X designations for risk of using medications in pregnancy. The new rule (referred to as PLLR for Pregnancy and Lactation Labeling Rule) was proposed in 2008, finalized in 2014,...