Addressing the Mental Health Crisis: Why Personalized Digital Solutions Are Essential To Meet Growing Demand
The following is a guest article by Byron Crowe, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Solera
Demand for mental services has never been higher, and an ongoing shortage of psychiatrists and psychologists is preventing millions of Americans from timely access to mental health services. And the timing couldn’t be worse — findings from Solera Health’s recent Mental Health Index, a nationally representative survey of over 3,000 U.S. adults, found that 42% of Americans continue to be bothered by symptoms of anxiety and depression, a staggering figure that remains substantially elevated from pre-pandemic numbers. Moreover, these sym...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring CBT Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Digital CBT Digital Mental Health Tools Dr. Byron Crowe M.D. Healthcare Barriers Personalized Healthcare Solera Solera Network Teletherapy Therapist Source Type: blogs
Why Anxious People Cannot ‘ Ride ’ Waves Of Emotions (M)
The study helps explain why anxious people find it hard to 'ride' their emotions and tend to avoid potentially rewarding situations. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - September 17, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Anxiety subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
The Depression Symptom Most Mistakenly Believe Is Purely Physical (M)
"I am no better in mind than in body; both alike are sick and I suffer double hurt." -- Ovid (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - September 15, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Anxiety Depression subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
Unveiling the inner dynamics behind high achievers ’ success
In the realm of leadership development, an array of groundbreaking initiatives is surfacing, igniting profound transformations on multiple fronts. Resilience programs, in particular, are equipping leaders with the agility to navigate our fast-paced world and fostering the internal adaptability essential for constant change. Yet, despite these promising strides, a disconcerting surge in anxiety, stress, and
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Unveiling the inner dynamics behind high achievers’ success originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 8, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Michaela Weaver Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Next: Harnessing Neuroplasticity, Medication AND Psychotherapy to treat mental health conditions
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
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The post Next: Harnessing Neuroplasticity, Medication AND Psychotherapy to treat mental health conditions appeared first on SharpBrains. (Source: SharpBrains)
Source: SharpBrains - September 6, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Conversation Tags: Brain/ Mental Health antidepressants anxiety Cognitive Neuroscience Combination therapy depression neuroplasticity psychedelics psychiatry Psychology Psychotherapy Source Type: blogs
Dancing around the hexaflex: Using ACT in practice 3
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) can be slippery to describe. It’s an approach that doesn’t aim to change thought content, but instead to help us shift the way we relate to what our mind tells us. It’s also an approach focused on workability: pragmatic and context-specific analysis of how well a strategy is working to achieve being able to do what matters. Over the next few posts I want to give some examples of how non-psychologists can use ACT in session (remember ACT is open for anyone to use it!).
Cognitive defusion
I’m guessing that for psychologists and those who primarily work wit...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - September 4, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: ACT - Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Coping strategies Occupational therapy Pain conditions Physiotherapy Psychology Science in practice acceptance and commitment therapy cognitive fusion pain managem Source Type: blogs
How Social Media Use Affects Depression & Anxiety Symptoms In Children (M)
Many people assume that social media is partly to blame for worsening mental health among young people -- but is it really? (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - September 3, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Depression Social Media subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – September 2, 2023
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
Improving Security When Lives Are on the Line. John Lynn spoke to John Wilson and Scott Pross at SolarWinds about the importance of proactive security in healthcare. That means everything from configuring new security features right away to closing the security gaps that appear when disparate clinical systems are integrated. Read more…
How Healthca...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Social Isolation: A Broader View
The previous articles in this series explain how technology is being used to bring people out of social isolation. But sometimes, loneliness springs from other mental conditions, such as anxiety and depression. Targeting these problems can help bring the patient back into a community.
Treating Psychological Conditions
One of subtler negative effects of moving online is that people lose the small, casual social interactions that previously would buoy their spirits and leave them smiling: asking for help from the post office staff, chatting with cashiers while bagging purchases, greeting people in the elevator, etc. The mi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 31, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT LTPAC Caretakers Carta Healthcare Dor Skuler ElliQ Facebook Gather Healthcare AI Healthcare Metaverse Intuition Robotics loneliness Matt Hollin Source Type: blogs
How Technology Can Overcome Social Isolation
The previous article in introduced the topic of social isolation and showed its relationship to the subjective feeling of loneliness. Now we’ll start to look at the use of technology (which has been implicated in making these conditions worse) to try to improve them.
Physically Connecting Lonely Individuals
mPulse Mobile evaluates patient needs and suggests local resources they can tap, including peer groups. The service gets data from patient records through AI and natural language processing (NLP). as well as from what the patient says to the service. According to Eden Brownell, director of behavioral science, mP...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 30, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Analytics/Big Data Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT LTPAC Aging in Place Andy Tubman Avanade Caretakers Christiana Voelker Dr. Kate Burke Eden Brownell HealCommunity Healthcare AI Healthcare NLP James Maskell loneli Source Type: blogs
The Fruit That Boosts Risk-Taking – May Help Depressed And Anxious
People with depression and anxiety who need to boost their risk-taking behaviours could benefit, the researchers think. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - August 29, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Anxiety Depression Source Type: blogs
Confronting stereotypes: reflections of an Asian medical student
“Are you sure you’re supposed to be here?” It was the first day of my subspecialty rotation. I’d left my husband, friends, and my home to spend the next six weeks some 2500 miles away. Like most third-year medical students on the first day of a new rotation, I felt a mixture of anxiety and
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Confronting stereotypes: reflections of an Asian medical student originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 26, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Yuna Han Tags: Education Medical school Source Type: blogs
All Social Anxiety Sufferers Should Know This Study (M)
A hopeful message for social anxiety sufferers about their friendships. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - August 25, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Anxiety subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
Evidence review: Physical exercise helps boost attention, cognitive flexibility and inhibitory control in children and adolescents with ADHD
Conclusions based on a single study –no matter how strong the study design and execution may be– are necessarily limited, however. This has led researchers to combine results from multiple studies using a statistical technique called meta-analysis so that more robust and reliable estimates of a treatment’s impact can be determined.
Meta-analyses also have limitations, however. Decisions made about which studies to include vs. exclude, how to adjust for potential biases in individual studies, etc., can lead different meta-analyses of the same issue to reach somewhat different conclusions, even when the studies examine...
Source: SharpBrains - August 23, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dr. David Rabiner Tags: Attention & ADD/ADHD Brain/ Mental Health Education & Lifelong Learning ADHD-symptoms cognitive-abilities cognitive-function executive functioning Physical-activity Source Type: blogs
