A pilot project in New York that trains lay people to screen and deliver evidence-based short-term treatments for depression and other common mental health conditions aims to cut long waits for services.
Combining computer-based training that reinforces self-worth with ketamine treatment could extend benefits in patients with treatment-resistant depression, new research suggests.
The brief scale is effective for measuring general and specific psychiatric symptoms across the diagnostic spectrum, new research suggests, and may offer an alternative to DSM and ICD diagnoses.
Clinicians state that involving the police in this situation stigmatizes the patient, and police involvement is often related to pragmatic, rather than medical, factors.