In the midst of a schizophrenia relapse, when psychotic symptoms return after a period of stability, you may experience issues like paranoia, hallucinations, delusions, confused thinking, and ...

While advance directives are quite common for patients with physical impairments, advance directives for people with mental impairments are controversial. In many countries, including Germany, there ...

Providing peer or community health workers to help psychiatric patients with complete psychiatric advance directives (PAD) to govern care in advance of a mental health crisis is associated with a ...

Ruston looked for ways to lay out her father’s wishes in advance, so she and his treatment team could better help him in the moment. She came across the psychiatric advance directive, a legal document ...

The concept of advanced planning for psychiatric illness emerged in the 1990s; more than half of U.S. states now have a psychiatric directive statute on the books. Interest in such laws coincided with ...

In August, 2014, following the tragic suicide of comic genius Robin Williams, Kay Redfield Jamison published an article in the NY Times titled “To Know Suicide.” In this essay, Dr. Jamison mentions ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Peer worker–facilitated psychiatric advance directives proved effective in decreasing compulsory hospital ...

Welcome to State of Mind, a new section from Slate and Arizona State University dedicated to exploring mental health. Follow us on Twitter. When people hear the term “advance directive,” they usually ...

SEATTLE — Despite being put in place 20 years ago by the Washington Legislature, some mental health advocates say that mental health advance directives are not being well utilized in the state. Mental ...