Writing, Editing, And Graphic Medicine

A Dynamic Editorial Framework

Dr Feder’s editorial framework for the Carlat Child Psychiatry report is an evolving tool that is regulalry revised and designed to bring out the best in writers and teachers:

1. What’s the problem? What is the lived experience of the patient and family and clinician?
2. What have we been doing until now to address this issue, medically, and in our systems of care?
3. What’s the new information? TELL ME SOMETHING I DO NOT ALREADY KNOW. Use effect sizes. NNT,NNH when possible
4. What are important social and environmental determinants to consider, including COVID, cultural differences, racial disparities, and climate change?
5. What can we do differently based on this information? Where do our own treatments fit in (medication, therapy, liaison)? What is the critical importance/relevance to clinical practice with patients and families? Did we provide information that will positively affect clinical practice? What changes can we make in our individual care and then the systems that we work in to better take care of our patients and ourselves, improving outcomes and decreasing burnout?
6. Can we develop or improve a treatment algorithm for this problem?
7. What is the role for pictures/ graphs to augment the article?
8. What is the role of Neuroscience based Nomenclature (NbN) in our conceptualization of our algorithm?
9. What is the endpoint for treatment, medication or otherwise? When to discontinue or move to a different level of care?
10. What do we tell parents/families about this issue, treatment, etc.?
11. How does this article improve systems of care to build a better patient experience/quality of care/safety and combat clinician burnout?
12. Bottom line?
13. Is the piece concise? Is it conversational?

 Scope of topics

Dr Feder's writing and graphic medicine work covers a range of topics and fields:

Child and Family Psychiatry

 - depression

 - anxiety

 - autism

 - trauma

 - ADHD

 - bipolar disorder

 - schizophrenia

 - substance use disorders

 - suicide

 - eating disorders

 - sleep disorders

 - and many more

Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health

Peace Building in Early Childhood Education

Disaster & Trauma Psychiatry

Climate Psychiatry

Examples of Edited Works

 - Examples of Recent Books and Volumes

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America: Refugee Mental Health Care  - due out 2024

Foundations for a Peaceful World: The Transformative Power of Early Childhood Education to Promote Peace and Social Cohesion, 2023

Child Medication Fact Book for Psychiatric Practice, Second Edition, 2023

Prescribing Psychotropics, from Drug Interactions to Genetics, 2022

Dhamma and DIR: Buddhist Thought as a Framework for Using Developmental Approaches in Helping People with Challenges in Development and Learning 2017

 - Examples of PhD Dissertation Committee and Editorial work in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health:

Osten, B. Video coding assessment of children receiving relationship based developmental intervention. Fielding Graduate University. Dissertation Chair. Nov 2022.

Zecolla, M. Qualitative study of online parent mediated intervention for autism. Fielding Graduate University. Dissertation Chair. Nov 2022.

Bell-Smith, J. Arabic Translation of the Greenspan Social Emotional growth Chart. Fielding Graduate University. Dissertation Research Member. June 2022.

Keating, G  Do Children Benefit from Chiropractic Care?  Fielding Graduate University. Dissertation Research Member. 2021.

Rosen, S  Family Child Care Providers’ Engagement with Professional Development: A Mixed-Methods Study of Providers’ Well-Being and the Impact of Professional Development Fielding Graduate University. Dissertation Research Member. 2021.

Harris, K. A Study Of Empathic Responses In Preschool-Age Children Using A Kind Test Method And Emque Test Scores. Fielding Graduate University. Dissertation Committee Chair. 2021.

Losada, D. - The Journey Of Perinatal Women’s Lived Experience Of Traumatic Birth, Breastfeeding, Caregiving, And Bonding Using Photovoice And The Diary-Interview Method Fielding Graduate University. Dissertation Research Member. 2021

Mossop, M.  A Sequential Explanatory Mixed-Methods Study of Caring with Caring: An Evaluation of a Tailored Early Childhood Mental Health Professional Development Program Fielding Graduate University. Dissertation Research Member. 2021.

 - Examples of Recent Articles

Moving Beyond ABA: A Positive Development in the Care of Children with Autism- Doximity Article. Feder, J. Doximity online February, 2022.

School Inclusion: What You Need to Know. Feder, J. The Carlat Child Psychiatry Report. January, 2022.

Helping Families Through the COVID-19 Pandemic. Feder, J. The Carlat Child Psychiatry Report. April, 2020

Psychiatric Aspect of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Children and Adolescents. Feder, J. March / April 2019 The Carlat Child Psychiatry Report.

Project ImPACT for Toddlers: Pilot outcomes of a community adaptation of an intervention for autism risk. Stahmer, A., et al.  Sage Publishing. Autism 1-16: November 2019

 - Examples of Recent Book Chapters

The Mental Health Impact of COVID 19 in Children and Adolescents - due out 2024

The use of medications in Selective Mutism - due out 2025

 - Examples of Professional Interviews for Publication:

Dr Jeff Max on the impact of closed head trauma on children and adolescents.

Dr. Julian Ford on the concept of complex trauma and how manage it

Dr. Lee Wachtel on Catatonia including it’s possible relationship to autism

Dr. Micheal Sandbank on the effect size of developmental treatment of autism

 - Examples of Webinars

Assessment and treatment of aggression in children and adolescents

Motivational Interviewing of adolescents to address marijuana use

 - Examples of Recent Podcasts and Video Productions

Recognizing and Treating Psychosis in Autism Carlat Publishing, the Carlat Psychiatry Podcast, Child Psychiatry Team Podcast August 21, 2023

Bullying Is (Public Service Announcement). Writer and Actor. Drama House Productions. August, 2023.

Aggression in Psychiatric Practice Carlat Psychiatry Webinar May 24, 2023

Recognizing Developmental Trauma Disorder in Children and Adolescents Carlat Publishing, the Carlat Psychiatry Podcast, Child Psychiatry Team Podcast May 15, 2023

Treating Irritability in Autistic Children: Functional and Medication Approaches Carlat Publishing, the Carlat Psychiatry Podcast, Child Psychiatry Team Podcast April 24, 2023

Anxiolytics in Children and Adolescents Carlat Publishing, the Carlat Psychiatry Podcast, Child Psychiatry Team Podcast April 17, 2023

Assessment of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Children and Adolescents Carlat Publishing, the Carlat Psychiatry Podcast, Child Psychiatry Team Podcast March 12, 2023

Autism and Medication: Part 2 Affect Autism Webinar. March, 2023. https://affectautism.com/2023/03/18/medication-2/

Improving Sleep in Children and Adolescents Carlat Publishing, the Carlat Psychiatry Podcast, Child Psychiatry Team Podcast February 19, 2023

Addressing Sensory Processing Challenges Carlat Publishing, the Carlat Psychiatry Podcast, Child Psychiatry Team Podcast February 12, 2023

Readily Available and Easily Abused Over-the-Counter Medications Carlat Publishing, the Carlat Psychiatry Podcast, Child Psychiatry Team Podcast January 2, 2023

Graphic Medicine

 - Use of graphic drawings in numerous lectures for

 Graduate level child psychiatry and mental health

 Presentations to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee

 Conferences, trainings, and webinars for mental health and autism care

 - Books and Graphic Novellas

Love & Potions

KIm, Tearful

Psychiatry and Mental Health - Interprofessional Graphic Medicine  - due out in 2025

Graphic Truths, the Making and Unmaking of. Doctor - due out 2024

Moss, M and Feder, J. Before Last Things: An Interview with Marissa Moss and Joshua Feder in Bauer, H., Greenbaum, A., and Lightman, S. (Eds) (2023) Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders. Syracuse University Press.