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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 5: Management of the child with mental health problems who is boarded in the ED

PEMBlog

We are in the midst of a staggering mental health crisis. Thousands of children and adolescents spend days at time in Emergency Departments waiting for definitive mental health disposition. Leyenaar; Pediatric Mental Health Boarding. Zima; Follow-up After Pediatric Mental Health Emergency Visits.

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Episode 392: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 27 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 2

The Clinical Problem Solvers

The episode highlights the importance of policy advocacy, culturally responsive therapy, and practicing cultural humility in mental health care. She served on the National Institute of Mental Health Advisory Council and the APA’s Council for Research. Dr. Kevin M.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Maybe we’ll get to talking about that today. Jessie, welcome back to GeriPal. Katie: Yeah.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

It was also the time that in 2015, that people who were trans and famous really put being trans on the map at that time, too. Jace 29:36 We see higher rates of mental health challenges that I think are due to overcoming adversity. And I remember I was actually featured at the time for, like, the Pride celebration up at Sinai.

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What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

GeriPal

You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage). The MAID issue then came on the table in Canada after the 2015 Supreme Court ruling in Carter v. Eric: And now is it including mental health, psychiatric disorders? But that was separate from MAID. Leonie: Right.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

And then the second one in 2015. I moved to Baltimore in 2015 and did clinical fellowship in geriatrics. And so I began to think about the training that I had and that there was no mental health condition that was diagnosed. Many people starting to talk about loneliness epidemic. Eric: How about you, Thomas?

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

GeriPal

And we have gone from 250 members at the end of 2015 to about 26,000 right now across the United States and a number of chapters that have grown. So it’s just every single part of our life is affected and mental health issues. And your health system will love you for it because you’re going to save them money.