Immersing practitioners in the recovery model: an educational program evaluation.

The ascendance of the recovery movement in mental health care has led to the development and implementation of educational curricula for mental health providers to assist in mental health care system transformation efforts. The Medical College of Georgia (MCG) partnered with the Georgia State Department of Human Resources (DHR) to develop, implement, and evaluate such an educational curriculum for providers within an academic medical institution. This effort, entitled Project GREAT, led to the creation of a curriculum based on the SAMHSA-defined (2006) critical components of recovery.

Comorbid depression in rheumatoid arthritis: pathophysiology and clinical implications.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory illness that primarily affects the joints. It is associated with symptoms of fatigue, pain, and sleep disturbances that can overlap with or mimic symptoms of depression. Depressive symptoms are highly comorbid with RA and may occur with at least mild severity in up to 42% of RA patients.

Review of olanzapine in the management of bipolar disorders.

Olanzapine is an atypical antipsychotic currently with indications for the treatment of schizophrenia, acute mania and the prevention of relapse in bipolar disorder. A growing body of clinical evidence supports these indications. Acute mania trials have demonstrated superior efficacy of olanzapine to placebo, equal or superior efficacy to valproate and superior efficacy in combination therapy with lithium or valproate compared to mood stabilizer monotherapy.

Diagnosis and management of trichotillomania in children and adolescents.

Trichotillomania (TTM), a disorder characterized by the repeated non-cosmetic pulling out of hair from any part of the body, was first described in 1889. The disorder can be associated with serious social and psychologic dysfunction, as well as medical problems. A large proportion of the published scientific literature on TTM consists of case reports, and the disorder has only received significant clinical and research attention over the last 20 years.