Digital media use is increasingly intertwined with adolescents' mental health, yet parents may encounter conflicting or oversimplified information about how online behaviors affect mood, anxiety, and well-being. Clinicians can help parents of adolescents who are experiencing mental health issues (particularly mood or anxiety disorders) by supporting them in both understanding the relationship between digital media use and their adolescents' mental health and identifying specific strategies for their adolescents. In this column, the authors outline practical strategies (e.g., assessing parents' beliefs about mental health and digital media usage, promoting open communication in the family regarding the adolescent's online behavior, encouraging parents to model healthy media habits, and addressing family conflicts about media use) for clinicians to use in providing collaborative care for families.

Personal recovery and rights-based approaches have become central to psychiatric services, but assumptions about individuals being entitled to support may not be culturally neutral. This column introduces worth orientations as a cultural dimension that shapes how service users interpret quality of life. In countries that use a dignity-based worth orientation, support is grounded in the inherent human value of a person. In countries with an effort-based worth orientation, support is linked more strongly to contribution, endurance, or deservingness. Recognizing these differences can help psychiatric services communicate recovery goals more sensitively and develop culturally responsive practices.

As artificial intelligence (AI) expands across mental health services, questions arise about whether it can replace digital health navigators (DHNs), including those with lived experience. The DHN role generally resists automation because lived experience deepens specific dimensions that AI cannot replicate. Drawing on emerging evidence of AI's limitations in contextual reasoning, cultural sensitivity, and clinical safety, the authors identify where DHNs with lived experience are least substitutable: real-world knowledge of services, cultural grounding in the communities they serve, and relational trust. A practical model is also outlined in which AI augments DHN workflows through triage, documentation, and engagement monitoring.

A short-stay, crisis stabilization model has been the predominant organizing principle for inpatient psychiatric care for two generations. This model has long been criticized as insufficiently patient (or person) centered and overly focused on psychopharmacological treatment and outpatient care coordination. Since the beginning of 2026, the Patient Experience Survey is now mandatory for Medicare-reimbursed psychiatric facilities. In this Open Forum, three inpatient psychiatric administrators argue that this important step, while necessary, must be paired with increased adoption of interventional treatments and integrated general medical services to improve the quality of inpatient mental health care.