Non-drug Approaches

New data interpreted to suggest a hierarchical, dimensional system of mental disorders will aid future research efforts and improve mental health care.

Neuroscience researchers find no differences in brain connectivity between children with diagnoses of autism, ADHD, and those with no diagnoses.

Debate ensues as scholars and policymakers discuss how to bring a rights-based approach to mental health policy.

According to Lifshitz and Thompson, mindfulness is best understood as “complex orchestration of cognitive skills embodied in a particular social context.”

Knowing the client’s history can help foster genuine empathic responding, a key component to child-centered play therapy.

How can we restore something as essential to the healing and helping process as knowing what is going on? If your client has an actual biological problem, he needs one sort of help. If he hates his job, he needs another sort of help. It is absurd (and not okay) that a helper would look only at putative “symptoms” and not at what’s going on.

Twice as many teenagers with ADHD experienced severe psychosis when taking Adderall, as compared to Ritalin, according to a new study.

A new study investigated whether participants guessing if they have an antidepressant or placebo affects response rates.

A new study suggests proximity to green space as a child is linked to lower rates of mental health issues in adulthood.

In an interview with MIA, Dr. Horowitz discusses his recent article on why tapering off antidepressants can take months or even years.

Depression, serious psychological distress, and suicide attempts have risen substantially since the early 2000s among young adults – what’s changed?

The candidate-gene approach to depression goes unsupported and is likely based on bad science, new research finds.

There is little denying the power of story… until our own stories get taken from us, positioned against us, and used to determine our value as some sort of human commodity. We deserve to have our stories heard and to hear the stories of others, but on our own terms, without being fetishized or controlled, and without competition for paltry awards and recognition.

Psychotherapy could, and really ought to, promote itself as the best investigative tool around for understanding emotional health and problems in living. That would change its footing, putting it on much more solid ground. I’m calling this redefined version of psychotherapy multi-lens therapy, to put the emphasis on where it ought to have been put all along: investigating.

Sociocultural context, language, and sense-making process are among concepts that can help hearers and providers better understand the phenomenon of hearing voices

Dr. Gail Hornstein, author of Agnes’s Jacket: A Psychologist’s Search for the Meanings of Madness, discusses the importance of personal narratives and service-user activism in the context of the global mental health movement.

The latest issue of the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences features several prominent researchers arguing that mental health concerns are not “brain disorders.”

Study examines the effects on participants of being told they are at risk of developing psychosis.

A new systematic review illustrates features of the relationship between anxiety and school attendance patterns.

Contemporary empirical research explores new ways to conceptualize and heal racial trauma through anticolonial and sociohistorical lenses.

The authors outline reasons for renaming schizophrenia and the way a change can reform practice.

A new analysis finds multiple antecedents of refugee prejudice, including religiousness, conservatism, and education.

The first ever population-level study of the brain-gut connection in humans finds evidence for a link between gut bacteria and mental health.

The Youth-Nominated Support Team intervention invites adolescents to select adults in their life to receive training on how to support them.

Researchers explore pathways of healing racial trauma in Latinx immigrant communities.