Psychiatry Advances

Psychiatry Advances

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Psychiatry Advances episodes

  • The Pandemic Continues: Addiction Services
    Dr. Jody Glance is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry/Medical Director of Addiction Services/ in-hospital and community. Providing a range of services for patients with addiction to substances has never been easy.  This Podcast summarizes how, under Dr. Glance’ s leadership, treatment for patients continues despite difficulties.  Changes in regulations, “new staff learning” has permitted “detox at a distance”, protecting patients from COVID risk, modifications of med. Rx, changed group treatment approaches.
    30 min
  • INFANT PSYCHIATRY/MENTAL HEALTH - THE MATILDA THEISS CENTER
    Dr. Paula Marie Powe is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry/Medical Director of Theiss Early Childhood and School-Based Behavioral Center. Her work involves analysis and intervention in infants 0-3 years old exposed to stress. potentially toxic stress. This type stress impacts later mental and physical health. Poor outcomes are not inevitable. Adaptive support enhances infant and child resilience. Programmatic interventions e.g. “parent-child interaction therapy”  are reviewed and highlighted.
    29 min
  • The Pandemic Continues: Telepsychiatry

    Gina Perez is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. She is Associate Chief /Behavioral Health Network and Telepsychiatry for UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. This Podcast, 2nd in this Pandemic Series, describes the considerable expansion and implications for the future of telepsychiatry in treating psychiatric patients. Not only in out-patient settings but widely so. Post pandemic it is very likely that most of these changes will persist, thereby altering psychiatric medical care broadly.

    30 min
  • The Pandemic: Leadership: Visibility and Communication Work
    Ken Nash MD is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh.  He is Chief Clinical Services at Western Psychiatry Hospital. This initial Podcast is the first of Five Podcasts relating to the ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic. It concerns Leadership for Change during the Pandemic to assure continuing treatment access for the Hospital’s in- patients/ambulatory settings. Similar in purpose, four other Pandemic relevant podcasts will follow/weekly on Fridays. For example, next Friday we present Telepsychiatry.
    30 min
  • Healthcare System Wide Consultation-Liaison Services.
    Dr. Priya Gopalan is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh/UPMC. She directs system-wide consultations-liaison services. These provide in-person and telemedicine consultations for in-patients. This Podcast describes building such services that are inter-professional, involve teaching a large number of faculty, residents/fellows/medical students. Key problems addressed include prevention/delirium/multi-causal catatonia/ perinatal problems e.g. depression and substance abuse.
    29 min
  • BIPOLAR SPECTRUM DISORDER IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS

    Boris Birmaher MD. is Endowed Chair- Early Onset Bipolar Disease/Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. This Podcast addresses two research questions: 1) Who among Children and Adolescents are at Risk to develop Bipolar Spectrum Disorder: 2) among patients who develop this disorder who is at risk for recurrence? This is a controlled prospective twenty year duration research study of children at higher risk because  at least one of their parents has this disorder.

    38 min
  • EVIDENCED BASED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INTERVENTIONS IN COMMUNITIES

    Shaun Eack PhD is the James and Noel Browne Endowed Chair and Professor in Social Work and Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. This Podcast describes his work on Cognitive Enhancement Therapy for persons with Schizophrenia and Autism. This work is a neurocognitive and social-cognitive rehabilitation program. Dr. Eack is presently preparing his positive research findings for application in community settings.

    25 min
  • Affect Among Teenagers - The Role of Sleep

    Peter Franzen PhD. Is Associate Director for Education of the University of Pittsburgh Sleep and Chronobiology Center. This Podcast discusses teenagers shortened sleep during critical high school years, when teenagers must attend school at early times. These sleep changes affect teenager reactivity, emotion, stress, pleasure( anhedonia) cognition and substance use. Consequent to sleep research findings this Podcast also discusses controversial school based interventions to prevent negative outcomes.

    23 min
  • Leadership Development for Academic Clinical/Educational Faculty Careers

    Dr. Jamie Tew is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry.  This Podcast describes his personal evolution from being a full-time clinical educator into his becoming a lead clinician administer at the UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. Presently he is Associate Chief of Clinical Services for Inpatient care, Quality, and Director of WPH’s Clinician Educator Faculty Development Program.  This Podcast is especially pertinent for early  Academic clinical faculty during subsequent periods of their growth and change.

    29 min

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Discover innovative research and patient-centered programs at the cutting edge of psychiatry and behavioral health sciences on the “Psychiatry Advances” podcast series. Psychiatric, psychological,…