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Violence Risk Assessment Tools

August 5, 2019
Dealing with potentially violent patients is daunting, but we can play an effective role in assessing and reducing violence risk. This post from The Carlat Psychiatry Report links to some key resources.Risk Assessment Tools Classification of Violence Risk (COVR): available at www.parinc.com Historical, Clinical, Risk Management (HCR-20): available at www.parinc.com Psychopathy...
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Editor's Choice: Volunteering to Help Youth Refugees Q&A

July 12, 2019
Here's a recent article from The Carlat Child Psychiatry Report I highly recommend.In the March/April 2019 issue Dr. Suzan Song talked to us about helping refugees and asylum seekers in this Expert Q&A. We hear of many children and adolescents who are refugees, most seeking asylum. There are calls for...
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Editor's Choice: An Antidepressant Diet Expert Q&A

July 11, 2019
Chris Aiken, MD
I was a reader of The Carlat Psychiatry Report before I was an editor, and there were two things that led me to subscribe to it:1) They cover topics that get missed in the psychiatric press, like practical tips and treatments that aren't backed by a promotional budget.2) They give...
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Integrative Approach to Assessing ADHD

July 3, 2019
Using Vitamins, specific diets, and herbal remedies, Integrative Medicine (IM) focuses on supporting the innate healing powers of the body.IM is not without its disadvantages. Firstly, and chiefly, the evidence base for efficacy is deficient by the standards of conventional medicine. In part, this is due to a lack of...
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Helping Patients Maintain Recovery

July 2, 2019
Excerpted from a past issue of The Carlat Addiction Treatment Report, Matthew Goldenberg, DO, Founder of Professionals Health Solutions and assistant professor of psychiatry at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, offers the following advice:Enhance your patients’ courage. Many people with SUDs may not think of themselves as brave, but it takes guts...
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Off-Label Use of Medications for PTSD

June 30, 2019
In The Carlat Child Psychiatry Report, Elizabeth Tien, MD, a child & adolescent psychiatrist at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY, offers off-label advice on prescribing medications for children with PTSD. Below are some general tips, but to get a handy table on which meds to choose and how to...
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Possible Uses for EEG

June 29, 2019
First developed in the 1920s, EEG entails applying electrodes to the scalp’s surface to measure electricity generated by neural activity. The brain works primarily via action potentials that lead to the release of neurotransmitters into synaptic clefts. Although EEG can’t detect the tiny amount of electricity produced by the individual...
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Tips for Good Medication Practice

June 28, 2019
The following are some recommendations on good medication practice from child psychiatrist Mark Chenven, MD, who offered his expertise in The Carlat Child Psychiatry Report:Start low, go slow: Most side effects are dose related, so gradual up-titration is simple common sense. This allows for the body’s homeostatic and regulatory mechanisms...
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Tips for Better Motivational Interviewing

June 27, 2019
In The Carlat Addiction Treatment Report, David Rosengren, PhD, President of the Prevention Research Institute, gives the following tips on how to conduct motivational interviewing:Be curious, not an expert.Training and expertise can get in the way of our really hearing the client’s story. For example, a client says, “I don’t...
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Helping Children To Tell Us About Their Experience

June 22, 2019
There are some ways to help you assess the type of anxiety that leads to inattention. Consider the following tips, which we’ve excerpted from an article from The Carlat Child Psychiatry Report newsletter:Catalog. Work with the child to develop a list of activities in which the child is calm and...
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