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Guest Post: Interview with Randye Kaye: Podcast Co-Host of Schizophrenia: 3 Moms in the Trenches and Author of Ben Behind His Voices: One Family’s Journey from the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope and Happier Made Simple: Choose Your Words

Bipolar Bandit

Randye Kaye is the co-creator and host of the popular podcast, Schizophrenia: 3 Moms in the Trenches. Her son, Ben, has been hospitalized over ten times for schizophrenia. Recently, though, in a brush with police not trained in Crisis intervention, he is currently incarcerated, awaiting a bed in a jail diversion program.

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Culturally Informed Therapy for Schizophrenia: A Review

Society of Clinical Psychology

Such interventions seeking to thwart systemic inequities (e.g., One such intervention is the 2021, Clinician Guide for Culturally Informed Therapy for Schizophrenia: A Family-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Approach by Amy Weisman de Mamani, Merranda McLaughlin, Olivia Altamirano, Daisy Lopez, and Salman Shaheen Ahmad 5.

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Diversity Spotlight: Nadine A. Chang, PhD

Society of Clinical Psychology

Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Chang holds a position as an Assistant Professor of Psychology in Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine , as well as a role as an Assistant Attending Psychologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

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American Dreams: What’s It Like To Be An MQ Research Fellow In The USA?

MQ Mental Health

One of the first ever MQ Fellows selected was Dr Joshua Roffman from Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital. Given known areas of overlap in risk for autism and schizophrenia, I wondered whether periconceptional folic acid might also confer protection against schizophrenia risk. Ezra Susser).

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MQ announces its biggest ever investment in new research

MQ Mental Health

Suhas will examine genetic and environmental predictors of treatment-emergent metabolic abnormalities in schizophrenia. Marisa will be building and testing a tailored virtual reality supplement to cognitive behavioural therapy to be provided during hospitalization after a suicide attempt. You can read more about Suhas' work here.

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Synthesizing Findings on Cognitive Flexibility and Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors

Society of Clinical Psychology

Several interventions for SITB include strategies to improve cognitive flexibility (e.g., At the broadest level, Dr. Kaufman studies prevention and intervention mechanisms for these populations, and strives to understand how social contexts interact with biologically-mediated regulatory processes to eventuate in SII and BPD.

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Am I Going Through a Nervous Breakdown?

Beautiful Voyager

Etiology may include mental health disorders such as anxiety disorder, depression, or schizophrenia. Early intervention and treatment can help prevent worsening of your symptoms, anxiety disorder, clinical depression, or psychosis. He has been practicing medicine in public hospital and private clinics since 2018.