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‘It’s only a Scratch!’ – Athletes and Injury Concealment

Just as this theatrical stubbornness of the Black Knight displays the downplaying of injury, so too can employees, patients, and athletes. Malingering is the fabrication or exaggeration of a symptom for “secondary gain.” When the opposite occurs, in the case of the Black Knight, for example, that can be referred to as “reverse malingering.”

APA Unveils New Strategic Plan on Mental Health Equity

  • What APA is Doing For You

The American Psychiatric Association (APA)’s Division of Diversity and Health Equity (DDHE) has launched a new strategic plan to work toward achieving diversity and mental health equity: Charting Excellence Through Partnerships: Strategic Goals for the Division of Diversity and Health Equity.

Eating Disorders, Weight-Shaming and “Clean” Eating

  • Addiction, Eating Disorders, Patients and Families, Women

Eating disorders affect all kinds of people: women, men, young and old and from all racial and ethnic backgrounds. Many factors likely contribute to developing eating disorders, including a range of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors. Having a close relative with an eating disorder or a history of dieting are risk factors. High levels of body image dissatisfaction and setting unrealistically high expectations for oneself (perfectionism) also increase the risk

Better Together: Changing Public Health Outcomes in Virginia with the Co-Responder Model

  • Public awareness, Serious mental illness, Suicide and self-harm

The co-responder model is a recent innovation in behavioral health services that employs a mental health professional and a law enforcement official as dual first responders when an individual experiences a mental health crisis. The Marcus-David Peters Act (“Marcus Alert” or “MA”), signed into law in Virginia in late 2020, commemorates Marcus-David Peters, a young Black biology teacher in Richmond, VA, who was killed by police while undergoing a mental health crisis.

Dr. Steven Chan Interviews Dr. Robert Caudill About His Experience with Telepsychiatry

Dr. Steven Chan interviews Dr. Robert Caudill, who discusses the dynamics of teaching telepsychiatry to psychiatry residents; the opportunities and challenges in using telepsychiatry in rural or underserved communities; and about future possibilities for the use of telemedicine in mental health treatment, including reimbursement issues at the state and federal levels.

APA Praises CMS Action to Increase Telehealth Access via Phones

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) today praises action taken this week by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to increase access to telehealth for Americans who lack the required video technology or live in areas without reliable broadband access. The APA has pushed for this increased, audio-only access for patients who have older phones that do not have a camera or lack internet access.

New Research Highlights Trends in ADHD Diagnoses

  • Mental health disorders, New research, Patients and Families, Teens and young adults

New research identifies differing trends in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnoses among adolescents and adults, including an increase among adults from 2020 to 2023. The study, published in the American Psychiatric Association Journal Psychiatric Research and Clinical Practice, found a significant downward trends in ADHD incidence among adults from 2016 to 2020 and adolescents from 2016 to 2018. The ADHD incidence rate remained stable for adolescents in subsequent years.

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