Editorial Policy
Mental-health information is high-stakes. Decisions readers make based on what they read here — whether to seek care, whether to start medication, whether their teen needs a therapist — affect their lives. This page explains how we write the clinical pages on this site, who reviews them, and how we keep them current.
How content is created
Each clinical page (every condition page, every service page, every blog post making a clinical claim) is drafted by a writer with subject-matter background and edited against a clinical review checklist before publication. Pages cite authoritative sources for every clinical claim — see our citation policy below.
We do not auto-generate clinical content with AI tools and publish without review. AI assistance, when used, is limited to drafting non-clinical sections (e.g., tone-checking lay language) and is always reviewed by a clinician before publication. See “AI disclosure” below.
Who reviews clinical content
Every clinical page names its medical reviewer at the bottom and surfaces a “last reviewed” date. Reviewers are NJ-licensed clinicians on staff with at least three years of clinical experience in the page’s topic area (e.g., a clinician who actually treats anxiety reviews the anxiety page). The reviewer signs off on the clinical accuracy and the safety language; the writer takes responsibility for the tone and structure.
Reviewer credentials are visible on each page — name, license type, NJ license number, and (where applicable) board certifications — so you can verify them through the State of New Jersey’s Division of Consumer Affairs license lookup.
How often pages are updated
Clinical pages are reviewed on a rolling 90-day schedule. Where clinical guidelines or NJ insurance policy change materially, we update the affected pages immediately and bump the “last reviewed” date. Pages older than 365 days without review are flagged in our build system; pages older than 730 days fail our content-validation checks and cannot ship without review.
Citation policy
Every substantive clinical page cites at least three to five authoritative sources. We cite, in rough order of preference:
- NIH agencies — NIMH, NIH, NIAAA, NIDA
- SAMHSA
- APA (American Psychological Association)
- FDA, for medication-related claims
- Cochrane systematic reviews
- Peer-reviewed journals (preferring open-access sources where available)
- NJ-specific authoritative sources (NJ Department of Human Services, NJ FamilyCare provider directory, NJ Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services)
External links to citations carry rel="nofollow" to comply with linking best practices and to keep our recommendations from looking like SEO-driven endorsements. We do not cite SEO content sites (Healthline, WebMD, etc.) as authoritative sources for clinical content.
Conflicts of interest
We accept no payment, gifts, or sponsorship from pharmaceutical manufacturers, device makers, or any company whose products we discuss in clinical content. Where a clinician contributes to content about a treatment they receive payment to deliver in our clinic (e.g., TMS providers writing about TMS), the byline names the clinician and the page discloses their role. We do not accept guest posts or sponsored content.
AI disclosure
Some non-clinical content (e.g., post organization, headline variants, lay-language polishing) on this site is drafted with AI assistance and reviewed by a human editor before publication. No clinical advice on this site is generated by AI without clinician review. We follow Google’s April 2025 guidance: AI-only clinical content is treated as low quality and is not published here.
How to flag an error
If you find a clinical inaccuracy on a page, an outdated insurance reference, or a typo, email info@positivereseteatontown.com with the URL and the issue. We respond to substantive corrections within five business days and reflect the update in the “last reviewed” date.