Integrative Mental Health

A new study explores how mindfulness impacts self-compassion and meaning in life to increase mental health and wellbeing.

Current suicide assessment practices of the VA are reductive and do not allow for the individual’s narrative to be heard.

Training for conceptual competence in psychiatry provides a new way forward to address theoretical and philosophical issues in mental health research and practice.

The conventional Western classification systems of health conditions are based on flawed science shaped by reductionist, hierarchical, and profit-driven ideologies. THEN wants to create a new paradigm built upon principles drawn from systems science, the life course perspective, developmental neurobiology, and other evidence-informed studies.

Study in Brazil demonstrates how the exploration of contextual determinants of distress in mental health care can inform therapeutic change.

Psychology can only deal with racial health disparities effectively by incorporating critical race theory and intervening at a structural level.

In-depth interviews find that those who screened positive for depression did not explain their experience in terms of diagnostic symptoms.

Psychotherapy is dominated by contradicting schools of thought, exhibits a gap between research and practice, and repackages old ideas rather than finding clinical consensus.

Researchers explore how culturally responsive services can create greater equity in mental health care.

Prominent researchers in psychiatry urge the field to move away from a rigid biological focus toward social and psychological perspectives to meet the needs of today’s world.

Group-based MBSR and PCGT therapies effective as a complementary treatment for PTSD.

New article pushes for a shift from a psychiatry centered on brain circuitry toward an 'ecosocial' view of mind, brain, and culture.

A re-visioned approach to social psychiatry aims to understand the broad influence of social life on mental health.

New research explores the use of broad-based school-integrated resiliency and mindfulness interventions to prevent mental health concerns before they occur.

Loneliness was found to both predict and be reinforced by severe common mental disorders.

My blood work indicated a host of issues that had been lurking under the surface of my “psychiatric diagnoses” for years. I’d seen various mental health professionals and none had recommended these types of tests, or stopped to think about any underlying factors, aside from the well-known “serotonin myth.”

A coalition of 35 health organizations expressed serious concerns that the NICE guideline for adult depression may cause clinical harm—they demand “full and proper” revisions.

Can a renewed biopsychosocial approach, grounded in an updated philosophy, foster person-centered medicine, and psychiatry?

Clinicians play a key role in empowering adolescents and their parents to make decisions about their mental health treatment.

A new review finds preliminary evidence for yoga and mindfulness-based interventions for youth diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

Teacher’s personal wellbeing plays a role in students’ mental health outcomes, suggests a new study.

Individuals who experience psychosis can also experience posttraumatic growth, which can be a central component of the recovery paradigm.

What physical activity-based programs are being implemented in schools, how are they being researched, and what kind of impact have they made?

Dr. Raskin discusses psychotherapists’ dissatisfaction with current psychiatric diagnostic systems and explores alternatives.

Interviews with psychosocially oriented psychologists demonstrate their experiences of discomfort with the hegemony of the medical model in their place of work and the conflicts that arise when they attempt to provide alternatives.