Blogs

The 10-year project will focus on developing a model to eradicate racism by identifying evidence-based and practice-based interventions.

While we always address that mental freedom in terms of treating mental disorders, we can also try to free minds from racism. Here are 10 of the ways how.

In our personal, public and professional lives, we must commit to taking positive action to bridge the divides that strain our society.

What is our role in mental healthcare in this ongoing and unprecedented national crisis? Here are seven ways we can make a difference.

BLOG: We know that isolation is one of the drivers of suicide in doctors. But listening to how doctors are affected in their heroic work on the front lines of the COVID-19 epidemic gives me hope that barriers to openly sharing one’s personal distress are lowering.

Although psychiatry had traditionally focused on the mentally troubled and the troubling aspects of people, there has been a movement toward a more positive psychology and psychiatry in recent years.

It is ironic that deinstitutionalization from state psychiatric hospitals and decarceration from city and county jails—major objectives long sought by the behavioral health community—have turned into significant problems in the COVID-19 era.

A day in the life of a practitioner is a challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the arts (and a little help from your friends) can be a healing force.

It's a difficult task with so many unknowns still surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, but we must look forward to start planning for the state of the behavioral healthcare field, both in the immediate future and years from now.

BLOG: In the middle of a crisis, it is difficult to plan ahead, but that is what we must do now, not only for those impacted by this current wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, but also to build inner resilience to care for those who may be impacted by a coming wave in the fall.