The post-test for this issue is available for one year after the publication date to subscribers only. By successfully completing the test you will be awarded a certificate for 1 CME credit.
Daniel Carlat, MD
Editor-in-Chief, The Carlat Psychiatry Report.
My goal in publishing TCPR is to help you think differently about your clinical practice, hopefully to enhance your effectiveness as a healer. After editing this month’s issue on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), I think I’ve achieved that goal in my own practice.
Robin Berlin, MD
Assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, George Washington University School of Medicine, and director of psychiatry, La Clinica del Pueblo, Washington, DC.
Daniel Carlat, MD
Editor-in-chief, The Carlat Psychiatry Report.
Dr. Berlin and Dr. Carlat have disclosed that they have no relevant relationships or financial interests in any commercial company pertaining to this educational activity.
Every five years or so, we do an update on PTSD treatments; the most recent was our August 2011 issue of TCPR, in which we declared that psychotherapy was the gold standard for treatment.
Arielle Schwartz, PhD
Licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in Boulder, CO. Author of The Complex PTSD Workbook: A Mind-Body Approach to Regaining Emotional Control and Becoming Whole.
Dr. Schwartz has disclosed that she has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.
The first thing that I would say is that complex PTSD can sometimes be harder to spot and diagnose, because when we’re looking for symptoms of conventional PTSD, we’re often looking for that first criterion: Has there been a single event that your patient would consider traumatic?
Michael Posternak, MD.Dr. Posternak has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was approved by the FDA in 2009 for the treatment of major depression, but TMS is costly and has so far produced only mixed results.
Adam Strassberg, MD.Dr. Strassberg has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.
Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is a formalized combination of mindfulness meditation, body awareness, and yoga. The technique has been shown to help with symptoms of depression and anxiety, and some preliminary small studies have hinted that it might improve both memory and anxiety/depressive symptoms in older patients.
The post-test for this issue is available for one year after the publication date to subscribers. By successfully completing the test you will be awarded a certificate for 1 CME credit.
Looking for tools and templates that will make planned or unplanned retirement and the closing or your practice easier to manage? Carlat Publishing has teamed up with the American Psychiatric Association to create handy toolkits.