World Mental Health Day 2021

"Mental health care for all: let’s make it a reality"—these words inspire this year's World Mental Health Day (October 10).

We are looking for different ways to help medical professionals not only deal with mental health issues of their patients but also improve their own well-being. Here is a list of our Textbook chapters that you may find useful:

• Anxiety and Related Disorders in Medical Settings

• Approach to the Agitated Patient

• Approach to the Difficult Patient

• Bipolar Disorders (NEW)

• Chief Adverse Effects of Psychotropic Medications: Extrapyramidal Symptoms, Catatonia, Serotonin Syndrome, and Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome (recently updated)

• Cognitive Assessment in Medical Settings

• Delirium

• Dementia

• Depressive Disorders

• Eating Disorders

• Insomnia (NEW)

• Medical Care of the Seriously Mentally Ill

• Medical Practice and the Law

• Perinatal Depressive and Anxiety Disorders

• Physician Health and Wellness

• Psychiatric Examination

• Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders (recently updated)

• Suicide Risk Assessment

Supplementary resources (interviews, lectures, and articles):

• Chair's Medical Grand Rounds: Bringing dignity to medical education by dr Mino R. Mitri

• A patient revolution for careful and kind care by Dr Victor Montori

• An evidence-based practitioner’s experience of careful and kind care by Dr Gordon Guyatt

• Clinical Reviews & Editorials: Human-important outcomes and EBM during the COVID-19 pandemic by Dr Roman Jaeschke, Dr James Douketis, Dr Malgorzata Nowaczyk, and Dr Gordon Guyatt

• Panel discussion and Q&A session XII: Evidence-Based Medicine with Dr Dror Dicker, Dr Małgorzata Nowaczyk, Dr Martin Härter, Dr Roman Jaeschke, Dr Gordon Guyatt, and Dr Victor Montori

• McMaster Perspective: Depression: Explaining CBT with Dr Zainab Samaan and Dr Roman Jaeschke

• McMaster Perspective: Depression: Choosing pharmacologic treatments with Dr Zainab Samaan and Dr Roman Jaeschke

• McMaster Perspective: Depression in the era of COVID-19 with Dr Zainab Samaan and Dr Roman Jaeschke

• McMaster Perspective: A McMaster innovator. CBT decades ago with Dr William Goldberg and Dr Roman Jaeschke

• McMaster Perspective: Chronic pain, opioids, and CBT with Dr William Goldberg and Dr Roman Jaeschke

• McMaster Perspective: CBT: Disease versus illness behavior with Dr William Goldberg and Dr Roman Jaeschke

• McMaster Perspective: Evolution of EBM. Part 1: EBM and personalized medicine. Are they different? with Dr Gordon Guyatt and Dr Roman Jaeschke