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Choosing between antipsychotics to reduce the risk of breast cancer in women with schizophrenia

The Social Care Elf

Peter Knapp and Suzy Ker review a recent study from Finland, which suggests that women with schizophrenia who take prolactin-increasing antipsychotics for at least five years, have an increased risk of developing breast cancer.

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

MQ Mental Health

At that point in my career, I was experienced enough to know that I needed to shift my focus to achieve greater public health impact – to the area of prevention, where there is tremendous unmet need in psychiatry. All of this is thanks to MQ, and to their investment in me at a critical time in my early career.

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

Bipolar Bandit

What inspired you to write the book, Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry , that got published in October of 2018? . Approximately half of people with schizophrenia or bipolar lack awareness of their illness, called anosognosia. When schizophrenia goes untreated, the consequences can be deadly.

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Lindsay Bornheimer Invited to Speak at the Albert J. Silverman Conference

Michigan Social Work

Silverman Conference in the Department of Psychiatry this week. She spoke about her study in a presentation on "Adapting a Cognitive Behavioral Suicide Prevention Treatment for Adults with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders in Community Mental Health.”

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Diversity Spotlight: Nadine A. Chang, PhD

Society of Clinical Psychology

Currently, Dr. 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. While I enjoyed the research process, the subject matter didn’t captivate me.

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you've been framed

Clinical Philosophy

Psychiatry's social scientific critics, for example, typically suggest we should apprehend their object using concepts such as "suffering", "problems in living", "experience", "belief". One way past this problem is to draw a distinction between conceptualisation and framing. One way to do this - and I can't think of any other! -

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Loneliness and psychosis in clinical practice

Society of Clinical Psychology

In fact, the annual rate of loneliness in people with schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders appears to be around 2.3 Given the prevalence and impact of loneliness in individuals with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, it is of utmost importance to recognize and address their social needs. References. Badcock, J.

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