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New Targeted Treatments for Fragile X Syndrome and ASD

Lifelong Learning: Continuous Certification Pilot Program Articles

Applying the Integrated Care Approach: Core

Office-Based Buprenorphine Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder (Online)

Anxiety and Trauma

AJP CME: April 2019 - Doubly Randomized Preference Trial of Prolonged Exposure Versus Sertraline for Treatment of PTSD

Comorbidity of Marijuana and Mental Health

AJP CME: October 2018 - Individual Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Using Mantram Repetition: A Randomized Clinical Trial

AJP CME: June 2018 - Analysis of DNA Methylation in Young People: Limited Evidence for an Association Between Victimization Stress and Epigenetic Variation in Blood

AJP CME: May 2018 - Reduction of PTSD Symptoms With Pre-Reactivation Propranolol Therapy: A Randomized Controlled Trial

AJP CME: January 2018 - Trauma and Resiliency: A Tale of a Syrian Refugee

FOCUS Self-Assessment Exam 2017

FOCUS Quiz: Fall 2017 - Treating the Invisible Wounds of War: Focus on PTSD and TBI

FOCUS Quiz: Spring 2017 - Anxiety Across the Lifespan

Trauma in Institutionalized American Youth

Updates in Women's Health: Depression and Anxiety During Pregnancy and Postpartum

Child and Family

New Targeted Treatments for Fragile X Syndrome and ASD

AJP CME: September 2019 - Exposure to Maternal Depressive Symptoms in Fetal Life or Childhood and Offspring Brain Development: A Population-Based Imaging Study

Internet Gaming Disorder: A Condition for Further Study

AJP CME: August 2019 - A Third Linear Association Between Olduvai (DUF1220) Copy Number and Severity of the Classic Symptoms of Inherited Autism

Adult ADHD: An Evidence-Based Psychopharmacology Treatment Algorithm

AJP CME: March 2019 - Age-Associated Deviations of Amygdala Functional Connectivity in Youths With Psychosis Spectrum Disorders: Relevance to Psychotic Symptoms

AJP CME: March 2019 - Adolescents Who Self-Harm and Commit Violent Crime: Testing Early-Life Predictors of Dual Harm in a Longitudinal Cohort Study

AJP CME: February 2019 - A Population-Based Analysis of the Relationship Between Substance Use and Adolescent Cognitive Development

AJP CME: January 2019 - Multimodal Structural Neuroimaging Markers of Brain Development and ADHD Symptoms

AJP CME: January 2019 - Brain Mechanisms of Attention Orienting Following Frustration: Associations With Irritability and Age in Youths

Levels of Care in Adolescents with Substance Use Disorders

Consultation Liaison Psychiatry

AJP CME: July 2019 - Development and Validation of a Dementia Risk Prediction Model in the General Population: An Analysis of Three Longitudinal Studies

Psychiatric Advance Directives: A Compelling Tool to Support Crisis Care

Chronic Physical Health Management for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness: Integrated Care, Evaluation, and Interventions

Introducing Peer Support into Your Organization: Expanding Peer Support in Behavioral Health

AJP CME: April 2019 - Psychiatric Comorbidity in Moyamoya Disease and Preliminary Guidelines For Treatment

AJP CME: April 2019 - Proof of Concept for an Adaptive Treatment Strategy to Prevent Failures in Internet-Delivered CBT: A Single-Blind Randomized Clinical Trial With Insomnia Patients

Addressing the Public Health Epidemic of Premature Mortality in People with SMI: Evolving Roles for Mental Health Clinicians

HIV/AIDS as a Chronic Disease: The Role of Psychiatrists Across Cultures

Psychiatrists and the Treatment of Pain

Novel Patient Engagement Strategies for Underserved and Vulnerable Persons with HIV

AJP CME: January 2019 - Impulse Control Disorders in Parkinson’s Disease

Mood Disorders

AJP CME: September 2019 - The Emergent Course of Bipolar Disorder: Observations Over Two Decades From the Canadian High-Risk Offspring Cohort

AJP CME: August 2019 - Polygenic Risk: Predicting Depression Outcomes in Clinical and Epidemiological Cohorts of Youths

FOCUS Quiz: Summer 2019 - Evidence-Based Principles for Bipolar Disorder Treatment

Practical Guide to Lithium Therapy and Management of Side Effects

AJP CME: May 2019 - No Support for Historical Candidate Gene or Candidate Gene-by-Interaction Hypotheses for Major Depression Across Multiple Large Samples

AJP CME: May 2019 - Irritability and Its Clinical Utility in Major Depressive Disorder: Prediction of Individual-Level Acute-Phase Outcomes Using Early Changes in Irritability and Depression Severity

AJP CME: May 2019 - Single, Repeated, and Maintenance Ketamine Infusions for Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Randomized Controlled Trial

TMS Therapy for the Treatment of Depression

AJP CME: March 2019 - Adolescents Who Self-Harm and Commit Violent Crime: Testing Early-Life Predictors of Dual Harm in a Longitudinal Cohort Study

AJP CME: December 2018 - Perspectives on the Management of Vascular Depression

AJP CME: September 2018 - The Burden of Bereavement: Early-Onset Depression and Impairment in Youths Bereaved by Sudden Parental Death in a 7-Year Prospective Study

Professional Development

Primary Care for Psychiatrists: Addressing Health Disparities Among People With Serious Mental Illness

A House Staff Mental Health Service: If You Build it, Will They Come?

Engagement Interview Protocol

Applying the Integrated Care Approach: Learning Collaborative #31

Applying the Integrated Care Approach: Learning Collaborative #32

App Evaluation Framework - Hands on With Digital Mental Health

Applying the Integrated Care Approach: Learning Collaborative #30

AJP CME: June 2019 - Pharmacogenomic Variants and Drug Interactions Identified Through the Genetic Analysis of Clozapine Metabolism

Chronic Physical Health Management for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness: Integrated Care, Evaluation, and Interventions

Introducing Peer Support into Your Organization: Expanding Peer Support in Behavioral Health

Applying the Integrated Care Approach: Learning Collaborative #29

Psychosis

Early Intervention in Psychosis: 21st Century Implementation Challenges

AJP CME: September 2019 - Prediction of Onset of Substance-Induced Psychotic Disorder and Its Progression to Schizophrenia in a Swedish National Sample

AJP CME: August 2019 - The Relationship Between Common Variant Schizophrenia Liability and Number of Offspring in the UK Biobank

A Computer Decision Support System for First-Episode Psychosis Pharmacotherapy

AJP CME: July 2019 - Cerebellar-Prefrontal Network Connectivity and Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia

Identifying and Engaging Youth with Early Psychosis Utilizing Internet and Social Media Platforms

Addressing Barriers to Clozapine Underutilization

Adherence to Antipsychotics in Schizophrenia: Clinical Considerations

AJP CME: December 2018 - Intellectual Disability and Psychotic Disorders in Children: Association With Maternal Severe Mental Illness and Exposure to Obstetric Complications in a Whole-Population Cohort

AJP CME: November 2018 - Association Between Smoking Behavior and Cognitive Functioning in Patients With Psychosis, Siblings, and Healthy Control Subjects: Results From a Prospective 6-Year Follow-Up Study

AJP CME: April 2018 - Rates and Predictors of Conversion to Schizophrenia or Bipolar Disorder Following Substance-Induced Psychosis

Special Populations

Gay Men's Mental Health

Being a Good Partner to Law Enforcement: Strategies for Crisis Providers

Psychiatric Advance Directives: A Compelling Tool to Support Crisis Care

Culturally Sensitive Clinical Care of Older LGBTQ Adults

AJP CME: November 2018 - A Transgender Woman With Intellectual Disability and Borderline Personality Disorder

Female Psychiatrist Well-Being: Establishing Work-Life Balance and Preventing Burnout

Transgender Mental Health

AJP CME: December 2017 - Transgender Research in the 21st Century: A Selective Critical Review From a Neurocognitive Perspective

Practical Applications of Disaster Mental Health – Lessons Learned from the US Military

Assessment of Access to Weapons

PTSD: Pathophysiology, Treatment, and Military Aspects

Substance Use Disorder

AJP CME: September 2019 - Prediction of Onset of Substance-Induced Psychotic Disorder and Its Progression to Schizophrenia in a Swedish National Sample

AJP CME: June 2019 - Nociceptin Receptors Upregulated in Cocaine Use Disorder: A Positron Emission Tomography Imaging Study Using [11C]NOP-1A

Vaccines for Opioid Use Disorder: Focusing on the Fentanyl Epidemic

The Clinical and Public Health Utility of Mutual Aid Organizations in Addressing Addiction: What Does the Science Tell Us?

Tracking Drug Use Patterns

Rethinking Withdrawal Management: Expanding the Use of Outpatient Settings

AJP CME: February 2019 - Connectome-Based Prediction of Cocaine Abstinence

AJP CME: February 2019 - A Population-Based Analysis of the Relationship Between Substance Use and Adolescent Cognitive Development

Telepsychiatry's Role in Medication Assisted Treatment

Levels of Care in Adolescents with Substance Use Disorders

Medication Assisted Treatment in the Emergency Room Setting

Journal/Study Guide CME

AJP CME: September 2019 - The Emergent Course of Bipolar Disorder: Observations Over Two Decades From the Canadian High-Risk Offspring Cohort

AJP CME: September 2019 - Exposure to Maternal Depressive Symptoms in Fetal Life or Childhood and Offspring Brain Development: A Population-Based Imaging Study

AJP CME: September 2019 - Prediction of Onset of Substance-Induced Psychotic Disorder and Its Progression to Schizophrenia in a Swedish National Sample

AJP CME: August 2019 - A Third Linear Association Between Olduvai (DUF1220) Copy Number and Severity of the Classic Symptoms of Inherited Autism

AJP CME: August 2019 - The Relationship Between Common Variant Schizophrenia Liability and Number of Offspring in the UK Biobank

AJP CME: August 2019 - Polygenic Risk: Predicting Depression Outcomes in Clinical and Epidemiological Cohorts of Youths

AJP CME: July 2019 - Development and Validation of a Dementia Risk Prediction Model in the General Population: An Analysis of Three Longitudinal Studies

AJP CME: July 2019 - Cerebellar-Prefrontal Network Connectivity and Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia

AJP CME: July 2019 - Separable and Replicable Neural Strategies During Social Brain Function in People With and Without Severe Mental Illness

FOCUS Quiz: Summer 2019 - Evidence-Based Principles for Bipolar Disorder Treatment

AJP CME: June 2019 - Pharmacogenomic Variants and Drug Interactions Identified Through the Genetic Analysis of Clozapine Metabolism