Guide to Suicide Prevention on Campus

The Jed Foundation offers a new guide: Preventing Suicide and Reducing Emotional Distress Guide for Professionals

Open Position: Psychologist

The Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) Program, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Adult Psychiatry, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, a Lifespan partner, invites applications from early career psychologists with a degree in clinical psychology for a full-time position starting immediately.

Candidates should have a PhD from an APA-accredited clinical psychology program and internship and should be licensed or eligible for licensure in Rhode Island. Candidates should also be trained in cognitive-behavioral therapy techniques; specialization in BDD is not required. Those with a background in substance use disorders, anxiety disorders, or eating disorders also encouraged to apply.

ashley_hart [at] brown [dot] edu (Please respond to Ashley Hart, PhD.) 

New Journal Focuses on OCD

The Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders (JOCRD) is an OCD specialty publication. ADAA Board member Jonathan Abramowitz, PhD, is founding editor-in-chief.
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What Military Patients Want Civilian Providers to Know

Civilian therapists and other health care providers may not understand the military way of life or a soldier's unique experiences, challenges, and language. Find out what you need to know.

Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program

Download a ToolKit for the Well-Child Screening of Military Children, to help pediatricians and other primary care providers identify and address the signs of deployment-related stress among children and families. Developed by the Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program in collaboration with the Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Project (McPAP).

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the Suicide Prevention Resource Center

After Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools. A resource for middle and high schools responding to a suicide, covering crisis response, helping students cope, memorialization, and social media.

Free Online Series: Recognizing and Treating Anxiety Disorders

ADAA has partnered with QuantiaMD to help health care providers better recognize and treat anxiety disorders.  ADAA board member Mark Pollack, MD, has assembled a world-class faculty to deliver a web and mobile educational series of brief interactive presentations accessible from your computer, smartphone, or tablet computer.

• View Panic Disorder, presented by Naomi Simon, MD, MSc: how the potentially disabling disorder can be controlled and successfully treated.
• View  Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, presented by Eric Hollander, MD: a concise look at managing a disorder that is often treatment-resistant.
• View GAD, presented by Michael Van Ameringen, MD: how it often presents, how to quickly screen for it, and how to best manage it.
• View Social Anxiety Disorder, presented by Murray Stein, MD: an expert guide to  recognizing this common disorder, plus how to treat and when to refer out.
• View Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, presented by Mark Pollack, MD: an expert review of PTSD, which affects a wide range of everyday people, as well as combat soldiers.

Share Innovative Health Care Delivery Systems

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Health Care Innovations Exchange Web site profiles innovations that are transforming how care is delivered, including use of social media.  Report innovations and recount your successes and failures on the site.

For Community Organizations

Screening for Mental Health is offering an interactive online screening program. The validated online screening is available for $85 (usually $255/year) until September 1;  the option to continue applies for another year. sherman [at] mentalhealthscreening [dot] org (E-mail Sara Herman )or call 781-591-5233.

New Toolkit on Suicide Prevention for Senior Living Communities

Now available from SAMHSA, a cutting-edge toolkit equips senior living staff with resources to promote emotional health and prevent suicide among residents. It includes guidelines for integrating suicide prevention into ongoing programs, hands-on tools, and comprehensive training manuals.

Webinar Series on Traumatic Stress

The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) offers webinars for counselors, educators, marriage and family therapists, psychiatrists, researchers, social workers, victim advocates, and students.
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Free Webinar Series on Generalized Anxiety Disorder

These six webinars provide a unique opportunity for health professionals to enhance their clinical practice and improve outcomes for their patients who have generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), especially women and older adults.

The program, sponsored by ADAA and Wiley-Blackwell, is for psychologists, social workers, counselors, and physicans. Its focus is effective diagnosis, appropriate selection of psychosocial and pharmacological therapies, comorbid physical and mental illnesses, helping patients understand GAD, and reducing the stigma often associated with mental health disorders. Discover more details. (CE/CME credits no longer available.)

TF-CBT Web

A web-based learning course: Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Disaster-Assistance Publications

Free, downloadable resources:

• After the Storm: A Guide to Help Children Cope With the Psychological Effects of a Hurricane
• Helping America Cope: A Guide to Helping Children Cope with the Challenges of War and Terrorism

Website Offers Training and Resources on Military Culture

The website www.afterdeployment.org features a new provider portal offering training, resources, and online tools to more effectively render treatment to the military community: descriptions, professional references, and scoring information for the site's 29 self-assessments; fundamental facts about evaluating and treating PTSD and TBI; client handouts; clinical practice guidelines; links to continuing education materials; and prepared briefings in PowerPoint format on a range of topics.

Webinar on Depression and Anxiety in Older Adults

From the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry: Not Just "Normal Aging": Managing Depression and Anxiety in the Geriatric Population