Treating Comorbid Obesity in Mental Illness
Clinicians managing a patient with a mental disorder who is also obese should treat both conditions.
Clinicians managing a patient with a mental disorder who is also obese should treat both conditions.
Mindfulness, which is based on meditation, as effective as cognitive-behavioral therapy in improving anxiety and depression symptoms.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy should be tried first before adding an antidepressant as part of treatment.
Hoarding disorder, which impacts up to 5% of the population, can be treated with a combination of cognitive-behavioral therapy and antidepressants.
A psychiatric nurse talks about a recovery center’s work in treating co-occurring substance abuse and mental illness together.
New chapter in DSM-5 covers disorders including antisocial personality, intermittent explosive disorder and kleptomania.
While antipsychotics are useful in some types of anxiety disorders, cognitive-behavioral therapy may be preferable in others.
Clinicians need to learn how to manage negative reactions and dysfunctional behavior in patients with personality disorders.
Meta-analysis finds cognitive-behavioral therapy best type of psychotherapy in treating SAD, and more efficacious than using drugs.
Finding could help to better diagnose depression as well as measure what treatments work the best for each patient.