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An interview with Dr. Marisa Marraccini

MQ Mental Health

Why is it important that young people are able to practice coping skills before being discharged from hospital/returning to school? Our qualitative research was focused on helping improve school reintegration experiences for youth following a psychiatric crisis.

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Guest Post: Interview with Author of Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry

Bipolar Bandit

I’m in my 14 th year as a mobile emergency psychiatric social worker. Although most mobile psychiatric emergency cases have involved mentally high functioning patients, I’ve been most invigorated from helping the most impaired patients, usually suffering from psychosis. I can authorize involuntary transfers of patients to hospitals.

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Depression and suicide risk: An interview with new MQ Fellow Dr Alexandre Lussier

MQ Mental Health

MQ is pleased to announce that Dr. Alexandre Lussier from the Lussier Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital has been awarded an MQ Fellowship. Following my PhD, I trained in computational biology and statistical genetics at Cornell University, working on X chromosome variation and psychiatric disease.

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Guest Post: Interview with Merryl Hammond, PD; Author of Mad Like Me and Navigating Bipolar Country

Bipolar Bandit

Interview with Merryl Hammond, PhD, Editor of Navigating Bipolar Country and author of Mad Like Me Q: To start, could you tell us a bit about your background and work, Merryl? Nothing worked until — after two psychiatric hospitalizations — they finally found a combination of five meds that stabilized me (and virtually knocked me senseless!).

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

For the past seventy-two hours I had been a guest of Mercy Hospital’s emergency room and both the hospital and I had settled in for the wait. I had my own room, a real hospital bed instead of an ER examination cot, and a menu card for the next day’s meals. I think I need to go to a hospital.” I think…” I started. “I

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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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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

She has spoken at CIT International, American Psychiatric Association, APNA, and The Missouri Behavioral Health Council. Her son, Ben, has been hospitalized over ten times for schizophrenia. She’s also an actor, voice talent, radio broadcaster, audiobook narrator, teacher and speaker.