Psychiatry

He has a “30-year” career, has “treated thousands of patients with serious mental illness[es]” and has reviewed several criminal cases. Not only is Lieberman a psychiatrist, but he is the author of “Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry” and the chairman of psychiatry at the Columbia University Medical Center in New York. As a result of his status and experience, Lieberman can confidently state his argument without seeming self-assertive or uninformed to the…

In Clinical Psychiatry News, Whitney McKnight states that in a nationwide survey, only a quarter of people “in the throes of a mental disease felt that they were treated compassionately” (1). This is especially the case in teens, as most often they are told their mental…

thought to be caused by moral corruption or position by demons,and sufferers were treated with great barbarity. This thinking was however overtaken by developments in the medical sciences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when a new field of psychiatry came on the scene. The new thinking under the auspices what was known as the medical model regarded abnormal behaviour as having stemmed from physiological and chemical abnormalities in the brain, this way it was analogous to physical…

(2014), suicide is the second to third leading cause of death among those aged 15 to 17 (p.1). As it is such pervasive and deadly problem and because youth have unique perspectives, valid assessment of suicidal risk is a crucial aspect of adolescent psychiatry. Overview of Two Methods of Assessment There are few suicide risk assessments that have been created specifically with youth in mind. One, the Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire was recently created to meet the need for valid measures of…

Describe the HPI and clinical impression for the client. Lk is 26-year old married, mother of a young child age 2, brought to the inpatient treatment center under TDO for unstable mood, erratic bizarre behavior and suicidal ideation. Additionally, she has been homicidal towards her husband. Her main complaint “ I am stressed and unable to eat or sleep ”.The clinical impression based on the diagnostic criteria of DSM-5 indicates that the patient is suffering from bipolar disorder (American…

The investigation continues as Teddy and his partner Chuck search for Rachael Solando, the mental patient who has disappeared on the island. The storm outside is progressively becoming worse which means they will need to move fast if they want to find the patient in time. While Teddy is questioning Dr. Cawley about the treatments Rachael was receiving, he responds by asking, “Do you know the state of the mental health field these days, gentlemen?... War. The old school believes in surgical…

cure for them. While our lack of knowledge and acceptance for these issues may be frustrating, if we look into the history of psychiatric medicine and compare it to modern psychiatry then we will see that, while the perception of mental illness still has room to improve, it has been getting better. Compared to modern day psychiatry where the mentally ill are meant to benefit from treatment and psychiatrists are focused on helping them function with a good quality of life, in history it was…

The categorical approach after many years does allow and first developed for publication since from and intended of the DSM first publication in 1952, and greatly was the former included on many levels to those outstanding degrees of purpose and good measure that it was believed, that can allow psychologists and psychiatrists to quantify many of the inner forces that both can provide and enable such these mental health practitioners and research too, that it was believed, were those to guide an…

Many others shared a similar experience at residential schools, unaware of the dangerous repercussions. The treatment and abuse in Residential Schools often caused psychological issues to the students. A study conducted for the American Journal of Psychiatry uncovers the relation between childhood abuse and the increased risk of developing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Causes of PTSD involve, exposure to trauma, such as, death, threat of death, serious injury or sexual violence, all of…

Clinician chose CBT and EX/RP therapy since they are both evidence based proven therapy methods for treating OCD, along with CBT being effective to treat MDD. Although depression is highly treatable with CBT therapy, the co-occurring disorder with OCD makes treatment with Gabie more complicated and challenging. Therapeutic Management This case has several strengths and challenges. Strengths for Gabie are her living with her supportive parents and willingness to want to work with this clinician…