{"title":"Navigating Hybrid Work: Reflecting on Experiences of Mental Health Providers in an Academic Medical Center.","authors":"Elizabeth A Greene, Rachel Shor","doi":"10.1080/00332747.2025.2499355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332747.2025.2499355","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>BackgroundThe need to rapidly adapt to patient, learner and market needs during the pandemic has led to an expanded focus on telework and telehealth. Now, with increasing calls to return part-time to in-person work, there is a growing need for guidance on making the deliberate and thoughtful change to hybrid work. <i>Challenges:</i> Hybrid work introduces challenges related to physical space, education and supervision, and presenteeism. <i>Opportunities:</i> Hybrid work offers opportunities for flexibility, geographic diversity in learners and educators, autonomy, and mitigation of some of the challenges experienced in solely in-person or solely remote work. <i>Conclusion:</i> Our own experiences in navigating this transition in an academic medical center suggest that hybrid work can be a unique experience, worthy of its own body of literature. This article is intended to bring together and support conversations happening between individuals, particularly mental health providers, around hybrid clinical work and supervision. Our hope is to facilitate further discussion and identify possible areas of future research related to this evolving work model.</p>","PeriodicalId":49656,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry-Interpersonal and Biological Processes","volume":"88 2","pages":"83-91"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144188394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kaiser Ahmad Dar, Naved Iqbal, Andreea Scrumeda, Resham Asif, Violeta Enea, Mudassir Hassan, Carmen Manciuc
{"title":"COVID-19 Anxiety and Mental Health in Healthcare Workers: Examining the Role of Compassion Fatigue During the Last Wave of the Pandemic.","authors":"Kaiser Ahmad Dar, Naved Iqbal, Andreea Scrumeda, Resham Asif, Violeta Enea, Mudassir Hassan, Carmen Manciuc","doi":"10.1080/00332747.2024.2435204","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332747.2024.2435204","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Pandemics have been shown to affect both physical and mental health, with healthcare workers (HCWs) bearing a particularly heavy burden. During the COVID-19 pandemic, HCWs faced a high volume of cases, extended work hours, and heightened pandemic-related stressors, which placed them at increased risk for mental health issues. This study examines the effects of COVID-19-related anxiety on HCWs' mental health, specifically exploring the roles of compassion fatigue (comprising burnout and secondary traumatic stress) as potential mediators in this relationship.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>A sample of 104 HCWs completed an online survey measuring their demographic characteristics (such as gender, age, length of service, marital status, and education), levels of COVID-19 anxiety, compassion fatigue, and mental health outcomes. Path analysis and bootstrapping procedures were used to analyze the data.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Results indicated that COVID-19 anxiety was positively associated with compassion fatigue, defined as the emotional strain of caring for others, which includes both burnout (emotional exhaustion from work) and secondary traumatic stress (stress from exposure to others' trauma). Compassion fatigue, particularly secondary traumatic stress, mediated the relationship between COVID-19 anxiety and various mental health indicators, including symptoms of anxiety, depression, and psychological distress. Both COVID-19 anxiety and compassion fatigue were significant predictors of these mental health outcomes.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings suggest that COVID-19 anxiety alone does not fully explain mental health outcomes among HCWs, as compassion fatigue, specifically secondary traumatic stress, plays a substantial role. Recognizing the complex interplay of pandemic-related stressors and compassion fatigue may guide interventions to better support HCWs' mental health.</p>","PeriodicalId":49656,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry-Interpersonal and Biological Processes","volume":" ","pages":"142-154"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142786787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adam K Walsh, Joshua C Morganstein, Brooke Heintz Morrissey, Aaron B Weingrad, Dori B Reissman, James C West, James A Naifeh, Carol S Fullerton, Robert J Ursano
{"title":"A Suicide Haddon Matrix for Intervention and Prevention to Reduce Suicide Risk.","authors":"Adam K Walsh, Joshua C Morganstein, Brooke Heintz Morrissey, Aaron B Weingrad, Dori B Reissman, James C West, James A Naifeh, Carol S Fullerton, Robert J Ursano","doi":"10.1080/00332747.2025.2460954","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332747.2025.2460954","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Identifying the individual, environmental, and social characteristics of suicide events is central to developing a comprehensive public health strategy for intervention and prevention of suicide. The Haddon Matrix has previously been used as a tool to address this goal in various forms of injury prevention. The purpose of this paper is to apply the Haddon Matrix to suicide to inform research, prevention, and intervention.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>To examine the Haddon Matrix's utility for suicide, a selective literature review was performed of recent and influential papers on risk of suicide across time, identifying contributing factors, conditions, policies, theories, and prevention strategies. Second, the key factors identified were organized on the Haddon Matrix. Third, to examine the pragmatic utility of the Haddon Matrix, the Department of Defense (DoD) Suicide Prevention and Response Independent Review Committee's (SPRIRC) recommendations to prevent military suicides were placed on the Haddon Matrix, and the areas covered were examined.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Characteristics of suicide across pre-event, event, and post-event stages were identified at the individual (host), agent (factors related to the method used for suicide), environmental, and social domains. These were used to construct a Suicide Haddon Matrix. Placing the DoD SPRIRC recommendations on the Haddon Matrix showed a concentration of high priority recommendations in the pre-event, host, and agent domains.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>A Suicide Haddon Matrix can guide researchers, mental health practitioners, and public health officials to key host, agent, physical, and social environment factors. This can identify areas that need research and opportunities for intervention and prevention.</p>","PeriodicalId":49656,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry-Interpersonal and Biological Processes","volume":"88 1","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143701869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building an International Map of Evidence, Policy and Interventions for the Prevention of Suicide in Military Personnel and Veterans.","authors":"Ellie Lawrence-Wood, David Forbes, Nicole Sadler","doi":"10.1080/00332747.2025.2471205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332747.2025.2471205","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49656,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry-Interpersonal and Biological Processes","volume":"88 1","pages":"23-26"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143701871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Can We Fill the Gaps in Suicide Intervention?","authors":"Jun Shigemura, Mie Kurosawa","doi":"10.1080/00332747.2025.2471211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332747.2025.2471211","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49656,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry-Interpersonal and Biological Processes","volume":"88 1","pages":"27-30"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143701877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrating Population Health Science and Systems Thinking into Suicide Prevention.","authors":"Sandro Galea, Mohammed Abba-Aji","doi":"10.1080/00332747.2025.2471204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332747.2025.2471204","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49656,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry-Interpersonal and Biological Processes","volume":"88 1","pages":"17-22"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143701954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emily K Burr, Robert D Dvorak, Ardhys N De Leon, Samantha J Klaver, Roselyn Peterson, Emma R Hayden, Madison H Maynard, Sabrina Almeyda, Alejandra Medina
{"title":"Understanding Loss of Control Eating Through the Lens of Expectancies and Reinforcement Sensitization.","authors":"Emily K Burr, Robert D Dvorak, Ardhys N De Leon, Samantha J Klaver, Roselyn Peterson, Emma R Hayden, Madison H Maynard, Sabrina Almeyda, Alejandra Medina","doi":"10.1080/00332747.2024.2403664","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332747.2024.2403664","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Prior research has indicated that outcome expectancies, sensitivity to punishment, and sensitivity to reward may predict harmful health behaviors concurrently, including disordered eating. Loss-of-control eating (LOCE), feeling unable to resist eating or stop once one has started, is associated with expectancies that eating alleviates negative affect (NA reduction expectancies) and expectancies that eating is rewarding (reward expectancies).</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>A survey battery was administered examining LOCE pathology, sensitivity to punishment, sensitivity to reward, and eating expectancies to a sample of 1660 adults in the United States (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 39.24 (14.51), 73.86% assigned female at birth). It was hypothesized that sensitivity to punishment would have a potentiating effect on the relationship between NA reduction expectancies and LOCE (a two-way interactive effect). This relationship was theorized to be moderated by the effect of reward sensitivity (a three-way interactive effect), as reward sensitivity has been found to interact with punishment sensitivity. Similarly, reward expectancies on LOCE were thought to be potentiated by sensitivity to reward (a two-way interactive effect) and this relationship was also thought to be influenced by sensitivity to punishment (a three-way interactive effect).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Hypotheses were partially supported. Sensitivity to punishment significantly moderated a two-way interactive relationship between reward sensitivity and reward expectancies on LOCE, attenuating this two-way interaction at low sensitivity to punishment. Similarly, the interaction between sensitivity to punishment and NA reduction expectancies on LOCE was only significant when reward sensitivity was low or at its mean.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Sensitivity to punishment and sensitivity to reward evince nuanced interactions with each other and eating expectancies to predict LOCE. Findings have treatment implications for cognitive interventions in LOCE.</p>","PeriodicalId":49656,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry-Interpersonal and Biological Processes","volume":" ","pages":"55-70"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11932788/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142523484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Insomnia Severity Predicts Psychiatric Symptoms: A Cross-Sectional Study Investigating the Partial Mediations of Worry and Rumination.","authors":"Kutlu Kağan Türkarslan, Deniz Canel Çınarbaş","doi":"10.1080/00332747.2024.2347100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332747.2024.2347100","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Insomnia as a disorder on its own or as a symptom of other mental disorders can lead to significant distress and lower quality of life. By exacerbating negative affect and emotion dysregulation, poor sleep and insomnia can contribute to the initiation and maintenance of mental disorders. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate the relationship between insomnia severity and overall psychiatric symptoms (anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, somatization, phobic anxiety, hostility, interpersonal sensitivity, paranoid ideation, and psychoticism), and the mediational roles of worry and rumination in this relationship.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The data was collected from a community sample of 1444 participants (females 69.39%, M<sub>age</sub> = 27.95, SD = 9.37) who completed self-report measures of insomnia severity, worry, rumination, and psychiatric symptoms. The mediational roles of worry and rumination were tested with mediation analysis using the PROCESS Macro.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>It was found that insomnia severity (β = 0.20, <i>p</i> < .001) significantly predicted psychiatric symptoms directly and via worry and rumination (β = 0.33, <i>p</i> < .001), meaning that worry and rumination partially mediated the relationship between insomnia severity and psychiatric symptoms. The findings were similar after controlling for smoking status, daily screen time, coffee consumption in the evening, weekly exercise frequency, and pre-sleep screen time.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Interventions targeting the reduction of insomnia severity and maladaptive emotion regulation strategies (e.g., worry and rumination), as well as the enhancement of adaptive emotion regulation strategies (e.g., positive refocusing and mindfulness), may alleviate the adverse effects of insomnia on psychiatric symptoms.</p>","PeriodicalId":49656,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry-Interpersonal and Biological Processes","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140960551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Finding a Place to Stand: Developing Self-Reflective Institutions, Leaders, and Citizens","authors":"BRIAN W. Flynn","doi":"10.1080/00332747.2024.2308478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332747.2024.2308478","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":49656,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry-Interpersonal and Biological Processes","volume":"94 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139768471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marco Kramer, Martina Stetter, Christine Heinisch, Patrick Baumgart, Martin Brüne, Paraskevi Mavrogiorgou, Georg Juckel
{"title":"Emotional Context Effects on the Rating of Ambiguous Facial Expressions in Depression and Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders.","authors":"Marco Kramer, Martina Stetter, Christine Heinisch, Patrick Baumgart, Martin Brüne, Paraskevi Mavrogiorgou, Georg Juckel","doi":"10.1080/00332747.2023.2291942","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332747.2023.2291942","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>ObjectiveTo investigate the influence of visual contextual information on emotion recognition of ambiguous facial expressions in depression and schizophrenia spectrum disorders. <i>Method:</i> Ambiguous facial expressions and emotional contexts representing anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness and surprise were validated in a pre-test with healthy independent raters. Afterwards, 20 healthy participants (8 women, 12 men; mean age 24.35 ± 2.85 years), 20 participants with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (9 women, 11 men; mean age 40.25 ± 11.68 years) and 19 participants with depression (11 women, 8 men; mean age 43.74 ± 12.65 years) rated the emotional content of nine different faces in seven different emotion-suggesting contexts. The proportions of context-congruent answers and differences between emotion ratings in each context were analysed using non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis and explorative, paired Wilcoxon tests. Correlational analyses explored the influence of clinical symptoms assessed by clinician-administered scales. <i>Results:</i> The overall proportion of context-congruent answers did not differ between participants with depression and schizophrenia spectrum disorders compared to healthy participants. Participants with schizophrenia spectrum disorders were more susceptible to anger-suggesting contexts and participants with depression were more susceptible to fear-suggesting contexts. Differences in emotion recognition were associated with the severity of depressive, but not psychotic, symptoms. <i>Conclusion:</i> Despite increased susceptibility to anger-suggesting cues in schizophrenia and to fear-suggesting cues in depression, visual contextual influence remains largely consistent with healthy participants. Preserved emotional responsiveness suggests an efficacy of emotion training but emphasizes the need for additional research focusing on other factors contributing to social interaction deficits.</p>","PeriodicalId":49656,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry-Interpersonal and Biological Processes","volume":" ","pages":"36-50"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139472108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}