Recent advances in physical health interventions for people with severe mental illness require improved professional roles, training, and coordination of services to provide holistic care.

Improving the physical health of the mentally ill: recent advances.

Holistic medicine can significantly enrich mental health practice by recognizing individuality, therapeutic partnership, and self-care, and incorporating spiritual dimensions into the biopsychosocial model.

Holistic medicine and mental health practice: toward a new synthesis.

Holistic approaches, such as hypnosis, yoga, relaxation exercises, and acupressure, can significantly improve physical, emotional, and behavioral health.

A Holistic Approach to Mental and Physical Well-Being

Mental health therapies have evolved from traditional asylums to individualized, culturally sensitive treatments, with technological advancements and cultural competency playing crucial roles in promoting tolerance and understanding.

Beyond the Asylum Walls: Tracing the Tapestry of Mental Health Interventions Across Eras and Cultures

A holistic approach to mental health, incorporating biological, social, and transdisciplinary perspectives, can expand treatment options and improve outcomes for mental disorders.

Beyond biological and social: a holistic approach to mental health

Smartphones, artificial intelligence, social media, and virtual reality are revolutionizing mental health care, but further efforts are needed for their effective implementation and future improvements.

The growing field of digital psychiatry: current evidence and the future of apps, social media, chatbots, and virtual reality

Ayurveda promotes mental wellness and resilience through holistic treatment modalities, complementing conventional treatments and promoting cultural competence and ethical considerations in mental health care.

AYURVEDA IN MENTAL HEALTH: AN ANCIENT INDIAN APPROACH TO HOLISTIC WELL-BEING

Depression and anxiety can be effectively prevented, with promising prevention of first-episode psychosis.

Recent advances in the prevention of mental disorders

This research highlights the need for research on key mechanisms, global access, and technology to improve psychological treatments and advance mental health.

The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on psychological treatments research in tomorrow's science.

Digital mental health interventions can improve accessibility to treatments, but face limitations and future challenges in real-world implementation and cultural adaptations.

What is the Current and Future Status of Digital Mental Health Interventions?

Mental health counseling can aid in improving cardiac disease patient outcomes, but structured awareness and training programs are needed to integrate depression with heart disease.

Mental health treatment to assist in heart disease improved outcomes

Occupational therapists can effectively integrate holistic care for mental health by addressing mind, body, spirit, emotions, and environment, promoting overall well-being.

Holism in Mental Health Practice

Video to home (VTH) delivery of mental health services is comparable to in-person delivery, enhancing patient satisfaction and accessibility for underserved populations.

Recent Advances in Delivering Mental Health Treatment via Video to Home

Mental health science can advance psychological treatment innovation by focusing on specific symptoms, investigating treatment mechanisms, and exploring novel delivery methods.

Developing thinking around mental health science: the example of intrusive, emotional mental imagery after psychological trauma

Shared decision making (SDM) shows promising potential in mental health treatment, with patients and providers finding it acceptable and willing to engage, but barriers like patient preferences and provider biases need further research.

Recent advances in shared decision making for mental health

Clinical holistic medicine, including short-time psychodynamic therapy and bodywork, effectively improves mental health in patients with complex mental, somatic, existential, and sexual problems.

Clinical Holistic Medicine: Psychodynamic Short-Time Therapy Complemented with Bodywork. A Clinical Follow-Up Study of 109 Patients

Psychiatrists should redefine their role from prescription-only prescribers to holistic providers of mental health treatment, focusing on comprehensive and holistic care for patients with psychiatric conditions.

Psychiatrists as Prescribers Versus Holistic Providers of Mental Health Treatment

Spiritual activities, such as prayer, meditation, and yoga, can play a crucial role in achieving a balanced, healthier, and more fulfilling lifestyle.

The Role of Spiritual Psychology for Holistic Living

Biological and biotechnological advances in mental health treatment have not delivered the benefits predicted, and may be irrelevant for clients now and in the future.

Challenging scientific advances in mental health.

The U.S. currently does not fully incorporate holistic health principles, focusing on mind and body as separate entities rather than unified components of health.

Holistic Health: Does It Really Include Mental Health?

What are the latest advancements in holistic treatments for mental health?

These studies suggest that the latest advancements in holistic treatments for mental health include integrating physical health interventions, recognizing individuality and self-care, incorporating spiritual dimensions, using hypnosis, yoga, relaxation exercises, acupressure, and leveraging technology such as smartphones, AI, social media, and virtual reality.