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A Simple Set of 6 Questions to Screen for Suicide

The Columbia Suicide Severity Risk Scale (C-SSRS) is a series of simple questions to assess the severity and immediacy of suicide risk that anyone can ask.

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Mental Health
A New Technology Provides a More Precise Measure of Pain

Columbia Psychiatry's Caroline Arout uses quantitative sensory testing, or QST, for assessing the effectiveness of cannabis for therapeutic uses.

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Mental Health
Sidney Hankerson Named Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine

Dr. Sidney Hankerson is one of 10 scholars named as 2021’s Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM).
Columbia Psychiatry Names Ravi N. Shah Chief Innovation Officer

Ravi N. Shah, MD has been named Chief Innovation Officer for Columbia Psychiatry.

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Vaccines at the Dinner Table

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Psychiatric Times

January 12, 2021

"The beliefs that underlie vaccine hesitancy may seem counter-intuitive, but they are prevalent and constitute a danger to that individual’s health and to that of others," writes Dr. D. P. Devanand.

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COVID-19
A Message from Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman

January 8, 2021

Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman highlights the good that is occurring in the midst of these bad times and shocking events.

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COVID-19
A Pandemic School Year

January 7, 2021

Dr. Anne Marie Albano, who specializes in treating children, adolescents, and young adults, has seen an increase in the number of college-age students seeking therapy since the spring.

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Anxiety
Easy Does It in a Tough New Year

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Psychology Today

January 6, 2021

"Perhaps the most worthy goal of all this year is to practice more self-compassion, to be gentle with ourselves," writes Dr. Deborah Glasofer.

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Mental Health
Impact of COVID-19 Crisis on LGBTQ Youth

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Psychiatric Times

January 6, 2021

Due to the pandemic LGBTQ youth may be quarantining with rejecting family-members and losing contact with supportive social networks.

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COVID-19
Lessons Learned From My Toddler During a Pandemic

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Psychology Today

December 30, 2020

"There may be wisdom in unlearning the decidedly adult tendency toward shame, guilt, and discontent, in favor of our earlier nature," writes Dr. Nitasha Shetty.

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COVID-19
Cannabis and Cannabinoids: Weighing the Benefits and Risks in Psychiatric Patients

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Medscape

December 18, 2020

Diana Martinez discusses the interaction between cannabis and psychiatric disorders.

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Treatment
Systemic Racism in Psychiatry Is Real

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Medscape

December 17, 2020

Dr. Roberto Lewis-Fernández discusses how systemic racism impacts mental health and mental health care.

Topic

Inequality
Radical Acceptance

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Psychiatric Times

December 17, 2020

Rejecting reality does not change it. Dr. Jeffrey Cohen explains how radical acceptance can help in the era of COVID-19.

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Mental Health
The Past, Present, and Future of the DSM

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Medscape

December 15, 2020

"It's easy to criticize the DSM, but at this point, it represents a system that is as good as we can have, given our current state of knowledge." says Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman.

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Mental Health

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