The best way to support women’s mental health is to implement policies that improve access to health care systems, family leave, food security, and housing, Dr. Elizabeth Fitelson said.
Roughly 5% of adolescent girls suffered from eating disorders like anorexia nervosa and bulimia in 2020, said Dr. Evelyn Attia. The likely culprit: isolation and extended time on social media.
As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches on into the foreseeable future, Drs. Jared O'Garro-Moore and Jeffrey Cohen explain how it can be helpful to turn our minds towards acceptance.
Dr. B. Timothy Walsh and Dr. Deborah Glasofer share advice for parents of teenagers with eating disorders to support them during the COVID-10 pandemic.
Concerned about relapse and maintaining recovery, practitioners who specialize in eating disorders and patients are embracing teletherapy now that face-to-face sessions are less of an option.
Concerned about relapse and maintaining recovery, practitioners and patients are embracing teletherapy now that face-to-face sessions are less of an option.
Columbia Psychiatry’s Linda Rosenberg, MSW, discusses mental health professional's major concerns about the effects of schools reopening during COVID19 on students.
Emergency physician Lorna Breen, MD, who worked on the front lines, got sick with the coronavirus and went right back to work, only to kill herself shortly thereafter.
This past spring, CUIMC met the demand for palliative care in COVID-19 patients in acute care and emergency settings by training and redeploying psychiatry trainees.