We highlight the profound difference early intervention makes in the trajectory of psychotic disorders, reducing symptom severity, suicide risk, and functional impairment.
Dr. Rab, pioneering street psychiatrist, shares the innovative methods he uses for effective outreach to unhoused mentally ill individuals, like mobile medication delivery and personalized housing strategies.
Token economies utilize a system where positive behaviors are rewarded with tokens that can be exchanged for desired items or privileges, fostering increased patient engagement and autonomy. We outline the essential steps for initiating and overseeing a token economy within a psychiatric unit.
Dr. Noordsy highlights compelling evidence suggesting that lifestyle changes, like regular exercise and nutritious diets, can significantly improve psychiatric treatment outcomes.
Incorporating a simple and low-cost intervention—aerobic exercise—into cognitive rehabilitation programs for patients with schizophrenia accelerates cognitive gains and improves school and work functioning.
This comprehensive study highlights the need for gender-specific treatment in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, revealing that hormonal changes call for lower antipsychotic doses for female patients under 45 and higher doses for those who are post-menopausal.
The findings of this large study offer some reassurance about the safety and efficacy of antipsychotic polypharmacy, despite general treatment guidelines cautioning against it.
Dr. Hendrick is a clinical professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and is the director of inpatient psychiatry at Olive View—UCLA Medical Center, where she carries a caseload of patients and provides teaching and supervision for medical students and psychiatry residents. After completing medical school and psychiatric residency at UCLA, she spent several years working as a principal investigator and co-investigator on N.I.M.H. funded research studies. She has authored or co-authored over 75 research papers, editorials, books and other publications. She has a long-standing interest in the needs of severely mentally ill patients from underserved populations and has worked in community mental health settings her entire career.
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