The purpose of this review is to explore the psychological effects of disasters on children and adolescents following the 20 years since Hurricane Katrina.

Changes in youth mental health during the pandemic have been well documented globally, but research on how mental health changed when schools returned to in-person learning is just emerging. This review summarizes the available global research on child and youth mental health following school reopening for in-person learning.

We review recent literature on instrumental reinforcement learning involving decision-making in anorexia nervosa (AN) to understand mechanisms underlying symptoms of AN, such as rigid pursuit of weight loss despite negative consequences.

Lithium is considered to have substantial benefits and harms, which constitutes a complex clinical challenge. This article aims to cover five putative strategies to maximise the benefits of lithium therapy while concurrently minimising its harms.

To synthesize recent evidence on psychiatric considerations in breast cancer care, focusing on care delivery, psychotherapy, and medication management.

This scoping review explores the extent and ways in which mental health assessment tools have been culturally adapted to be fit for purpose in new contexts.

This review considers the available research testing the efficacy of self-guided psychotherapeutic interventions in the management of affective premenstrual disorder (PMD) symptoms.

Mood in bipolar disorder (BP) fluctuates in complex and unpredictable ways that resist simple explanation. To capture this complexity, researchers have turned to modeling mood dynamics. This review organizes the recent literature around three key questions: How can modeling help phenotype BP? Can models accurately predict future mood? And can modeling clarify mechanisms underlying mood instability?

This narrative review critically examines the role of integrative oncology interventions, mind-body, spirituality, and religion-informed therapies, embedded within palliative care practices in Iran from 2021 to 2024.

We review the recent published literature on nightmare-focused interventions, including imagery rehearsal therapy, for trauma-exposed adult populations.

Despite more recent declines in opioid overdose deaths, opioid use among adolescents and young adults (AYA) continues to be a significant public health crisis in the U.S., contributing to various adverse health outcomes. We summarized peer-reviewed literature on the prevalence, risk factors, treatment options, and barriers to evidence-based care for AYA with opioid misuse and opioid use disorder (OUD).

This review provides an overview of sexual abuse in correctional facilities, including victimization rates, reporting rates, common victims and offenders, and prevention efforts RECENT FINDINGS: There is disagreement about the cause of rape and sexual assault among men and women who are incarcerated. Some explanations argue that it is a manifestation of power and control while others argue it is a result of deprivation. Research has not isolated one specific explanation. Women tend to be victimized by correctional officers and people who are transgender are often victimized by other incarcerated people. Prevention efforts have been ineffective even through prisons are required, by law, to implement principles from the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Correctional facility sexual abuse is rampant and often goes unreported. Incarcerated individuals who are victimized are often fearful of retaliation, not being believed, and embarrassed. When they do report, however, very few incidents are substantiated. Prevention efforts are lackluster and do not adequately prevent rape and sexual assault inside correctional facilities.

Depression and anxiety are among the most common global mental health conditions. Emerging research highlights the impact of diet and the gut microbiome on the nervous system and mood. We review and discuss the existing research on the effects of various diets-including high-fiber, fermented, ketogenic, and calorie-restricted diets-alongside the roles of prebiotics and probiotics, on anxiety and depression.

This reflective ethnography examines fracture and healing at the intersection of gender, culture, and embodiment in an NGO-run psychiatric rehabilitation center in Kolkata, India. Through the story of Soma Das-a survivor of domestic violence and psychosocial illness-the author explores how dance, labor, and relational presence function as integrative therapies within community psychiatry. At the Parinama shelter, "work as therapy" is a guiding principle, and group dance sessions restore rhythm, dignity, and belonging. Yet the piece interrogates the fine line between healing and discipline in institutional care, where productivity often stands in for wellness. Drawing on feminist psychiatry and cross-cultural frameworks, the author reframes recovery not as symptom remission but as embodied reintegration. By situating psychosocial rehabilitation alongside expressive movement practices, the essay illustrates how integrative care can emerge organically from local rituals of sociality. Healing, in this account, is relational and rhythmic-a choreography of survival that transcends diagnosis and gestures toward wholeness.

This review examined the concept of exposure in children in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Recognizing the varied effects of the pandemic on children across a range of experiences, the review departed from the frequently-used analytic framework based on the stressor criterion for a diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

This article critically examines the disaster literature from the past three years (2022-2025) to evaluate the relationship between place attachment and children's experience of disaster response and recovery.

This narrative case report examines the application of Integrative Oncology (IO) in the care of a young adult patient with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), an aggressive primary brain tumor associated with significant symptom burden and poor prognosis.

This report provides an overview on the relative lack of eating disorders training for healthcare students and providers, the impact of these gaps, and efforts underway to enhance eating disorders education.

Kratom products have been available in the US for over a decade. Initially, these products were almost entirely made from kratom leaf material and formulated in powders, capsules, or tablets. Recently, more diverse kratom products and derivatives have been marketed and sold, including extracts, concentrates, and isolates. This review focuses on the differing symptom presentation of products containing concentrated or isolated kratom-derived alkaloids that may cause substantial risks to consumers.

This review examines emerging evidence on the relationship between behavioral sleep timing and psychiatric disorders, highlighting the critical distinction between circadian preference (chronotype) and actual timing of sleep. These two concepts are not identical and show independent and interdependent impacts on a variety of mental health outcomes. Evidence suggests that actual sleep timing, rather than chronotype preference, is a stronger predictor of mental health outcomes, with late-night sleep patterns more consistently linked to poorer mental health across both cross-sectional and longitudinal studies. The mechanisms linking late night sleep patterns to poorer mental health are not well understood and cannot be fully explained by reduced sleep duration or being awake during the biological nighttime. Modifiable social and environmental factors likely play a role. Future research should clarify causal mechanisms and inform culturally sensitive, chronobiologically-informed interventions.

Binge-eating disorder (BED) is associated strongly with obesity and heightened rates of psychiatric, somatic, and psychosocial/functional impairments. BED is infrequently diagnosed or treated with empirically-supported interventions. This review covers weight management interventions for BED, with a specific focus on clinician-led behavioral lifestyle and/or pharmacological treatments; self-directed "dieting" and inappropriate weight-loss approaches are not considered.

There is increasing interest and exploration in tailoring eating disorder (ED) treatment for emerging adults/transition-age youth. This review provides a narrative update on research findings from 2021 to 2025.

To review recent literature on the key components of partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programming and their impact on adolescent and young adult patient populations’ mental health.

Through a multidimensional lens, we review the literature on the link between anxiety-related processes, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis functioning (with a particular focus on cortisol), and their neural correlates, using the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) framework. This approach aims to capture the complexity of these processes by addressing their heterogeneity, multidimensionality, and underlying neurobiological mechanisms.

To narratively review recent literature addressing interventions aimed at reducing detrimental mental health effects of problematic social media use (PSMU) among adolescents aged 10-20.

This review aims to examine the evolving literature on virtual reality (VR) technology in the treatment of anxiety-related disorders. We explore recent evidence across categories of anxiety-related disorders, focusing on the advantages and limitations of VR as a means of delivering exposure therapy. Finally, we propose recommendations for incorporating VR in current clinical practice and areas for future innovation.

This review presents new research pertinent to youth suicide prevention with a focus on suicide risk screening; therapeutic interventions, including Crisis Lifeline services; the identification of proximal risk or warning signs; and guidelines for youth discussions of suicide-related concerns on social media.