Best Practices & Guidelines Archives - Page 18 of 29

Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D)

Downloadable Resource April 1, 2019

The Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D; HRSD; HDRS), designed in 1960, has become one of the most widely utilized rating scales intended to assess depression disorder symptom severity and change.… Read More

Humanizing Bipolar Disorder: An Interview With David Swain, MBA

Interview March 25, 2019

Individuals living with mental health diagnoses are often marginalized by society, and stigmatization and discrimination may form a barrier to their recovery and social integration. There are a lot of… Read More

Mental Health Awareness Month 2019 Toolkit

Article March 20, 2019

Throughout May each year, we celebrate Mental Health Awareness Month (MHAM). For 2019, Mental Health America (MHA) is celebrating 70 years of celebrating MHAM by sharing their MHAM Toolkit. They… Read More

Meet The Treatment Team: Peer Support Specialist

Interview March 18, 2019

In this interview, Dwayne Mayes sits down with Nicole Meade, PhD from the Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. Field Medical Affairs Team, to discuss the role a peer support… Read More

Gender Differences In Depression

On-Demand Webinar March 7, 2019

The prevalence of depressive disorders is higher in women than men. Why? Many factors are thought to contribute to the divergence, including biological and clinical presentations. Understanding these variances may… Read More

A Long Road To Travel: Evidentiary Support For Digital Interventions During Tertiary Care

Article March 4, 2019

Background Chronic recurrence or relapse, and the need for more complex care, are common features of many psychiatric disorders. As such, some individuals with serious mental illness may require tertiary… Read More

Resilience: How Nature & Nurture Shape Us

On-Demand Webinar February 26, 2019

Why any given experience should induce one person to adapt, while another is edged toward a maladaptive stress response that could ultimately lead to psychiatric illness, is not clearly understood.… Read More

Long-Acting Injectable Antipsychotic Screening, Utilization, & Effects: The RUHS Medical Center Case Study

Video February 18, 2019

Riverside University Health System (RUHS) is an academic, tertiary care medical center and county safety-net facility operating a 77 bed inpatient psychiatric hospital located in Riverside, California. In this short… Read More

Treatment Plan Collaboration: Understanding & Incorporating Caregiver, Peer Support, & Clinician Perspectives

On-Demand Webinar February 7, 2019

Mental illnesses are complex disorders which affect millions of adults in the United States. The burden of these conditions, as well as the risk of comorbidities for the patient population… Read More

The Art Of Clinical Assessment In Patients With Bipolar Disorder

On-Demand Webinar January 22, 2019

Definitions and classifications for mental disorders and symptomology from publications like the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) are helpful in assisting health care providers with diagnoses, treatment,… Read More

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