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- Volume VI (2008): Major Depressive Disorder and Suicide; Schizophrenia: Cognition and Outcomes; Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Panic and Social Phobia
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In This IssuePsychotherapy
Guest Editor: Priyanthy Weerasekera, M.D., M.Ed.
Psychotherapy Update for the Practicing Psychiatrist: Promoting Evidence-Based Practice The last three decades have witnessed significant advances in psychotherapy.
Mindfulness and Psychotherapy Mindfulness is a natural human mental state of moment to moment awareness of present experience. It is a skill that can be trained.
Emotion-Focused Therapy A summary of an emotion focused approach to therapy (EFT) and its research base is presented. In this view, emotion is seen as foundational in the construction of the self.
Ask the Expert, Glen O. Gabbard: E-mail in Communication with Patients.
EditorsDeborah J. Hales, M.D.
Mark Hyman Rapaport, M.D.
Patient Management Exercise
Ian A. Cook, M.D., Associate Editor
Ethics Commentary
Laura W. Roberts, M.D., Associate Editor
Senior Advisory Board
Carol A. Bernstein, M.D.
Paula J. Clayton, M.D.
Pedro L. Delgado, M.D.
Howard H. Goldman, M.D.
Ira M. Lesser, M.D.
Charles F. Reynolds III, M.D.
Pedro Ruiz, M.D.
Stephen C. Scheiber, M.D.
Daniel K. Winstead, M.D.
Joel Yager, M.D.
Editorial Board
Josepha A. Cheong, M.D.
Laura Dunn, M.D.
John B. Herman, M.D.
Donald M. Hilty, M.D.
Geetha Jayaram, M.D., M.B.A.
Thomas A.M. Kramer, M.D.
Daryl Matthews, M.D.
Cheryl F. McCartney, M.D.
Philip R. Muskin, M.D.
Michele T. Pato, M.D.
Cynthia W. Santos, M.D.
Deborah Spitz, M.D.
James W. Thompson, M.D., M.P.H.
Joyce A. Tinsley, M.D.
Owen M. Wolkowitz, M.D.
FOCUS Self-Assessment Editorial Board
J. Michael Bostwick, M.D.
Robert Boland, M.D.
Arden D. Dingle, M.D.
Laura Fochtmann, M.D.
James W. Jefferson, M.D.
Vishal Madaan, M.D.
Annette M. Matthews, M.D.
Rima Styra, M.D.
Marcia L. Verduin, M.D.
Isaac Wood, M.D.
Joel Yager, M.D.
Eric R. Williams, M.D.
Deborah J. Hales, M.D., is Director of Education at the American Psychiatric Association and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University.
Mark Hyman Rapaport, M.D., is Chairman and Professor of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences and the Polier Endowed Chair in Schizophrenia and Related Disorders at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California; Vice-Chairman and Professor in Residence in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.