Women and Mental Health

May 14, 2024

Women and Mental Health Why Are Mental Health Issues More Common Among Women? May 14, 2024 | Dr. Joel L. Young One in three Americans struggles with a mental illness, but the rate is much higher in women. Why is that? Researchers suggest that women are about 40% more likely ...

Unhealthy Relationship Patterns

April 29, 2024

Unhealthy Relationship Patterns How to Avoid Falling into a Negative Routine. April 29, 2024 | Dr. Joel L. Young Marriage researcher John Gottman believes we can predict divorce by identifying the presence of four devastating relationship behaviors. Harmful patterns of abusive, criticism, contempt, or stonewalling can threaten a relationship. Couples ...

Consequences of Untreated Mental Illness

April 11, 2024

Consequences of Untreated Mental Illness Understanding the effects. April 11 2024 | Dr. Joel L. Young Although mental illness remains heavily stigmatized, with politicians blaming everything from poverty to crime on mental disorders, mental illness is common. About 25% of the population will face a mental health issue in any ...

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

March 27, 2024

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome What you need to know. March 27, 2024 | Dr. Joel L. Young Complaints of chronic fatigue are commonly expressed by patients to both their physicians and mental health therapists. It is a rare day when one of my patients does not report that she has trouble ...

MindMetrix Makes Mental Health Assessment Easy, Personal, and Confidential

March 13, 2024

The Rochester Center for Behavioral Medicine is excited to announce the launch of MindMetrix. MindMetrix is a comprehensive mental health screening and assessment tool that can help reduce mental health misdiagnosis and support mental health consumers to find the right treatment.

Military and Mental Health

February 21, 2024

Military and Mental Health Understanding the crisis. February 21, 2023 | Dr. Joel L. Young With suicide rates dramatically rising and increased attention to the violence of veterans who struggle with mental illness, the military has been under increased pressure to provide readily available access to mental health treatment. Veterans ...

Preventing ADHD Under- and Over-Diagnosis With the Right Screening Tools

February 07, 2024

Preventing ADHD Under- and Over-Diagnosis With an Intelligent Screening Tool February 7, 2024 | Dr. Joel L. Young Importance of this research Table of Contents Welcome About the Study Methodology Findings Takeaways Mental health misdiagnosis is an ongoing problem. Research shows that ADHD is both under-diagnosed and over-diagnosed. The results ...

Telehealth and Patient Satisfaction: A Convenient Path to Better Mental Health

January 24, 2024

Telehealth and Patient Satisfaction: A Convenient Path to Better Mental Health January 24, 2024 | Dr. Joel L. Young Importance of this research Table of Contents Welcome About the Study Methodology Findings Takeaways Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic , telehealth was an underused option for delivering mental health services. Patients ...

Online Mental Health Assessments - Can you trust them?

January 10, 2024

Online Mental Health Assessments - Can you trust them? January 10, 2024 | Dr. Joel L. Young If you’ve ever spent an afternoon Googling things like, “Do I have depression?” you’ve probably encountered a bevy of quizzes promising to diagnose you in just a few minutes with everything from bipolar to ...

Identification and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder

December 28, 2023

Identification and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder How to avoid common mistakes when diagnosing and treating bipolar disorder. December 28, 2023 | Dr. Joel L. Young What Is Bipolar Disorder? Most estimates suggest that about 2% of adults have bipolar disorder, but depending on the data used, some studies put the ...

The Change of Season Might Affect Your Mental Health

December 06, 2023

The Change of Season Might Affect Your Mental Health What you can do about it. December 6, 2023 | Dr. Joel L. Young Sometimes it can seem like it’s mandatory to like the holiday season. Everyone is excited with talk of sweet treats, gifts galore, and fuzzy boots. If seasonal ...

ADHD and Other Mental Health Diagnoses

November 09, 2023

ADHD and Other Mental Health Diagnoses Looking at a Comparative Psychiatry Study November 9, 2023 | Dr. Joel L. Young It's common for adults with ADHD to also have a co-occurring mental health diagnosis, according to a study published in Comparative Psychiatry. Rates of mental health disorders are significantly higher ...