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A Prescription App for Insomnia

March 4, 2022

Jesse Koskey, MD. Psychiatrist at Sensible Care, CA Dr. Koskey has disclosed no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Psychiatrists can now prescribe a cognitive behavioral therapy app that takes basic therapy one step further with digital adaptions to improve insomnia, sleep apnea, and mood.

Does CBT Enhance Pharmacotherapy for Addiction?

July 3, 2021

Jedidiah Perdue, MD, MPH

Jedidiah Perdue, MD, MPH Dr. Perdue has disclosed no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Psychotherapy has had a mixed track record of efficacy for substance use disorders. This meta-analysis suggests that CBT is only modestly effective when combined with medications and likely no better than any other form of therapy. Although it’s unlikely be a magic bullet, CBT is very low risk, and reasonable to offer alongside other more established treatments.

Integrating Medication Prescribing and Psychotherapy

March 19, 2021

Carla Marienfeld, MD

Carla Marienfeld, MD

Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego. Director of the UCSD Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship, co-editor of Motivational Interviewing for Clinical Practice, and editor of Absolute Addiction Psychiatry Review. Dr. Marienfeld has disclosed that she has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Dr. Marienfeld shares strategies of how to turn short clinical appointments meant “only” for medication management into rich therapeutic interactions. She outlines specific techniques drawn from Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy that you can start implementing in office visits right away

Long-Term Treatment Response in Pediatric OCD

March 12, 2021

Pavan Madan, MD

Pavan Madan, MD Dr. Madan has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Which is better for OCD in children and adolescents: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Serotonin Specific Reuptake Inhibitors or a combination of both in children and adolescents? Are there reasonable options between these choices? This research review gives some helpful answers that you can put into practice with your patients today.

EXPERT Q&A

Side Effects of Psychotherapy

November 12, 2020

Michael Linden, MD, PhD

Michael Linden, MD, PhD
Professor of psychiatry and director of psychosomatic research at the Charité University Medicine Berlin, Germany. Dr. Linden has dual training as a psychologist and psychiatrist and is licensed as a cognitive behavior therapist. He has helped develop new branches of CBT, and his research has brought recognition to the potential side effects of psychotherapy. Dr. Linden has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Psychotherapy can work as well as medication, but can it also have side effects? Michael Linden believes it can. He launched some of the key studies that brought light to this under-appreciated phenomenon, and in this interview he shows us how to recognize and avoid them.

Brief Therapy During the Medication Visit

November 12, 2020

Donna Sudak, MD

Donna Sudak, MD

Professor and Vice Chair for Education and Drexel University College of Medicine. She is the author of four books on psychotherapy, including Combining CBT and Medication: An Evidence-Based Approach (Wiley, 2011). Dr. Sudak has disclosed that she has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Every minute counts in the 90833 “brief therapy with medication” visit, and Donna Sudak shows us how to customize CBT with pharmacotherapy for depression, bipolar, anxiety disorders, and schizophrenia.

New Hope: CBT for Internet and Computer Game Addiction

February 11, 2020

Jason Mallo, DO

Jason Mallo, DO Dr. Mallo has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Internet and computer game addictions represent difficult-to-define and difficult-to-treat conditions that are increasing in prevalence. To provide some guidance on treatment options, investigators tested short-term cognitive behavioral therapy in a randomized, controlled trial.

Primer: Evidence-Based Psychosocial Interventions for Substance Use Disorders

October 2, 2019

Psychosocial interventions for substance use disorders include drug counseling, medical management, cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, contingency management, the community reinforcement approach, and twelve-step facilitation

Opioid Use Disorder: Is There an App for That?

August 1, 2019

Joshua Sonkiss, MD.

Joshua Sonkiss, MD. Dr. Sonkiss has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

This News of Note discusses the first FDA-approved mobile app for SUDs, called reSET-O. Classified as a mobile medical app (MMAs), reSET-O can be used as an adjunct to outpatient opioid use disorder treatment. Unlike most apps, reSET-O requires a prescription to unlock and use.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Substance Use Disorders

May 21, 2019

Here’s the basic framework of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), how it can be applied to Substance Use Disorders, and ways to incorporate parts of CBT into your daily addiction treatment practice.