The concept of losing face or bringing shame to family and community, a fear that’s universal across many Asian cultures, can heavily affect Asian Americans’ decision to get help, said Warren Ng, MD.
Zachary Blumkin, PsyD, addresses some of the pitfalls of social media and offer suggestions for how teens (and their parents) can engage with social media safely.
Casey O’Brien, PsyD, discusses the recently launched Columbia Intensive Adolescent and Family DBT Program, which teaches teens specific, tangible skills toward acceptance and changing behaviors.
“Of all the people I’ve diagnosed with a psychotic disorder,” said Ryan Sultan, MD, assistant professor of clinical psychiatry, “I can’t think of a single one who wasn’t also positive for cannabis.”
Physicians now rely on a framework for assessing capacity that was published in 1988 by the researchers Paul Appelbaum, a psychiatrist, and Thomas Grisso, a psychologist.
If your allergy symptoms are bringing you down, it can sometimes be difficult to know whether you’re depressed or you’re feeling “. . .so tired because my body is sick,” said Philip R. Muskin, MD.
