Psychiatry Advances

Addressing Mental Health and Suicide Risk in Autism Through Community Partnership

Jessica Gannon MD is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry.This Podcast describes this mental disorder, updating its definitional descriptive characteristics, noting variation, advances in treatment, e.g. long- lasting drug maintenance, reduction of unneeded components of drug RX, early intervention, team RX and the introduction of genuinely new treatments with a different mechanism of action than the traditional approach to Rx of psychosis by anti-dopamine agents. EG. Cobenfy.

Psychiatry Advances:

Dr. Daniel Bender is the Medical Director of the Child and Adolescent Inpatient Unit at Western Psychiatric Hospital. His clinical work was recently featured in the New York Times (Reference included).

Justin Schreiber DO, MPH is a Tripple Boarded Assistant Professor of Medicine.

Nafessah Wynn is an experienced credentialed Family Peer Specialist Coordinator. Working together they treat families in the Whole Child Wellness Clinic.

This podcast explores the procedures and advantages of treating families in an integrated care setting involving both medical expertise and family peer support. This setting, comparatively unusual, is particularly relevant for training both psychiatrists and other care givers.