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Available Practice Guidelines for Mental Disorders

Tips on using practice guidelines: When to use them. Where to find them. How to use them efficiently

Clinicians’ guide to screening tests in mental health

Why cut-off scores on screening tests matter to clinicians

The Mood Disorders Questionnaire is being used inappropriately

Don’t use screening questionnaires for bipolar disorder

What is a p value? (video)

“No significant difference”: Not different, but not the same

Non-inferiority comparisons

What is Effect Size and how should it be interpreted?

BEST books on Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) (Free)

BEST book on statistics for clinicians (Free)

Forms, Checklists, and Rating Scales for mental health clinicians

How to judge the quality of a journal

Journal Impact Factor

What is a failed study?

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Tips on neuroimaging to evaluate persons with dementia-Interview with Vimal Aga, MD on May 16, 2016

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Is tardive dyskinesia still a problem: Stanley Caroff, MD

Do second generation antipsychotics have a lower risk of tardive dyskinesia: Stanley Caroff, MD

More on whether second generation antipsychotics have a lower risk of tardive dyskinesia: Stanley Caroff, MD

Tips on how to identify tardive dyskinesia: Stanley Caroff, MD

What to do about the antipsychotic if the patient develops tardive dyskinesia: Stanley Caroff, MD

What to do about anticholinergics if tardive dyskinesia occurs: Stanley Caroff, MD

Valbenazine and deutrabenazine for tardive dyskinesia: Stanley Caroff, MD

Tips on managing akathisia: Stanley Caroff, MD

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Sexual dysfunction Part 1-Assessment: Anita Clayton, MD

Sexual dysfunction Part 2-Flibanserin: Anita Clayton, MD

Sexual dysfunction Part 3-Flibanserin & Bremelanotide: Anita Clayton, MD

Sexual dysfunction part 4-PDE-5 inhibitors & testosterone: Anita Clayton, MD

Sexual dysfunction part 5-Cyproheptadine & Yohimbine: Anita Clayton, MD

Sexual dysfunction part 6-CAM: Anita Clayton, MD

Sexual dysfunction part 7-How to identify it: Anita Clayton, MD

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Tips on assessing and managing suicidality: Interview with Jack Krasuski, MD on November 4, 2016

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14 Key Questions About Vilazodone-Part 1: Rajnish Mago, MD

14 Key Questions About Vilazodone-Part 2: Rajnish Mago, MD

14 Key Questions About Vilazodone-Part 3: Rajnish Mago, MD

14 Key Questions About Vilazodone-Part 4: Rajnish Mago, MD

14 Key Questions About Vilazodone-Part 5; Rajnish Mago, MD

14 Key Questions About Vilazodone-Part 6: Rajnish Mago, MD

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Tips on writing a letter at termination of treatment-Rajnish Mago, MD

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How to teach a powerful Relaxation Practice: Rajnish Mago, MD

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Part 1 of Psychodynamic psychopharmacology: Interview with David Mintz, MD on August 4, 2016

Part 2 of Psychodynamic psychopharmacology: Interview with David Mintz, MD on August 4, 2016

Part 3 of psychodynamic psychopharmacology: Interview with David Mintz, MD on August 4, 2016

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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS): Interview with John O’Reardon, MD on September 10, 2016

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Bipolar disorder: Interview with Gary Sachs, MD on September 29, 2016

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Psychiatric Interviewing-Part 1-Shawn Shea, MD

Psychiatric Interviewing-Part 2-Suicide Assessment-Shawn Shea, MD

Psychiatric Interviewing-Part 3-Validity Techniques-Shawn Shea, MD

Psychiatric Interviewing-Part 4-Interviewing paranaoid patients-Shawn Shea, MD

Psychiatric Interviewing-Part 5-Medication Interest Model-Shawn Shea, MD

Psychiatric Interviewing-Part 6-About the book-Shawn Shea, MD

Anita Clayton, MD

Management of sexual dysfunction

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Donna Sudak, MD

CBT for brief sessions

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Shawn Christopher Shea, MD

Psychiatric Interviewing

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Joseph Goldberg, MD

Management of bipolar depression

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Gary Sachs, MD

How to get better outcomes in bipolar disorder

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David Sheehan, MD

Suicide: A New Conceptualization, A Neglected Question, and Specific Medications

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Jack Krasuski, MD

Quick tips in suicide assessment

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John O’Reardon, MD

Tips on referring patients for TMS

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David Mintz, MD

Dealing with treatment-resistance

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Vimal Aga, MD

When and how to order neuroimaging in dementia?

365 Advanced Topics in Psychopharmacology: Quiz 1

365 Advanced Topics in Psychopharmacology: Quiz 2

365 Advanced Topics in Psychopharmacology: Quiz 3

365 Advanced Topics in Psychopharmacology: Quiz 7

365 Advanced Topics in Psychopharmacology: Quiz 8

365 Advanced Topics in Psychopharmacology: Quiz 9

365 Advanced Topics in Psychopharmacology: Quiz 10

365 Advanced Topics in Psychopharmacology: Quiz 11

365 Advanced Topics in Psychopharmacology: Quiz 12

365 Advanced Topics in Psychopharmacology: Quiz 13

365 Advanced Topics in Psychopharmacology: Quiz 14

365 Advanced Topics in Psychopharmacology: Quiz 15

365 Advanced Topics in Psychopharmacology: Quiz 16

365 Advanced Topics in Psychopharmacology: Quiz 17

365 Advanced Topics in Psychopharmacology: Quiz 18

365 Advanced Topics in Psychopharmacology: Quiz 19

Psychopharmacology Quiz A

Psychopharmacology Quiz A: Answers and Comments

Psychopharmacology Quiz B

Psychopharmacology Quiz: Newer Antidepressants

Psychopharmacology Quiz: Cardiovascular adverse effects

“The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Below are links to the BEST books on different topics–for mental health clinicians.

BEST Books on Psychiatric Interviewing

BEST books for clinicians about evaluating and treating personality disorders

BEST Books on Learning Psychotherapy

BEST books about doing presentations

BEST Books on Statistics for Clinicians

BEST books on Evidence-Based Medicine

BEST Articles for Psychiatry Residents

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We should *routinely* recommend to patients (and their loved ones) very *specific* book(s) about their illness because this allows patients to educate themselves. Two rules about this that I follow are:

1) Only one or two of the best books for that purpose, NOT a list of twenty. Listing twenty usually guarantees that the person will read none.

2) Only books that will be USEFUL, not those that are just “interesting.” Some of the best ones are listed on this website under the different conditions — depressive disorders, bipolar disorder, ADHD.

BEST books about improving social skills

BEST books about how to lose weight

BEST books on how to change habits

BEST books on adult ADHD: For clinicians

BEST books on adult ADHD: For patients and families

Best Book on Mindfulness Meditation

Book review: Mindfulness prescription for Adult ADHD

Book review: ADHD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life

BEST books on bipolar disorder: For patients and families

BEST books on depressive disorders: For patients and families

BEST books on Adult Asperger’s Syndrome

How to choose a rehab (recommended book for persons with substance use disorders and their families)

BEST book on Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias

Best books on OCD for patients

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