The odd/eccentric cluster, or cluster A, includes paranoid personality disorder, schizoid personality disorder, and schizotypal personality disorder where it is the only cluster A disorder to be recommended for retention in the alternative model. It is different from schizophrenia as bizarre thinking and functioning impairments are less severe, hallucinations are not present, and full-blown delusions…
There are a multitude of treatment barriers that arise when addressing behavioral problems in adolescents. These barriers are apparent in family, adolescent, and clinical domains. These issues range from attitudes towards treatment services, the captured understanding of mental health, treatment reliance, systemic views, family circumstances, cultural and ethnic underrepresentation, and the available access to these…
Play therapy is a form of therapy that typically involves children engaging in playtime that is observed by a clinician that allows them to see the child’s unresolved trauma, stress, emotions, and mental health issues. There are various types of play therapy that include child-based play therapy, family-based play therapy, and group-based therapy. Each form…
Hi everyone, ABMHS is accepting new clientele community for our mental health services. We accept Medicaid and most major insurance.We work with all ages and our mental health services include Therapy, Peer Support, Family Support, CBRS, Targeted Care Coordination, and Case Management. If you or anyone you know would benefit from our mental health services,…
Children and adolescents ages 7 to 17 and adults show depressed mood, inability to experience pleasure, fatigue, concentration problems, and suicidal ideation. Children and adolescents differ from adults in more guilt but lower rates of early-morning wakefulness, early morning depression, loss of appetite, and weight loss. Depression in children is recurrent. Prevalence among adolescent girls…
Autism Spectrum Disorder involves significant problems in social communication and social interactions such as problems in understanding other people’s emotions, reluctance to approach others, trouble with back-and-forth conversations, problems in maintaining eye contact, showing facial expressions, or using gestures to communicate with other people, and problems in forming and keeping peer relationships. Repeated and ritualistic…
9/11 – Never Forget. We changed forever 20 years ago today. And so did the world of mental health, resources, professions, and motive to emerge ourselves into it. PTSD, depression, substance abuse disorders, and anxiety disorders all gained a new definition and intensity to them. This day is solemn and remindful of how important it…
Suicide is a person’s death from deliberate self-injury. However, there are other terms that are important when addressing the topic of suicide that can be helpful in learning and understanding this study as well. Suicide ideation are thoughts of killing oneself. Suicide attempts are behaviors intended to kill oneself. And non-suicidal self-injury is behaviors intended…
Psychological assessments can be determined through clinical interviews, personality tests, cognitive and neuropsychological tests, direction observation of behavior, experience sampling, and self-report questionnaires. Each method of assessment provides a different approach to assessing and determining the correct psychological assessment. The purpose of clinical interviews is to establish rapport, empathize with client experiences, and to encourage the…
Neurons are the cells of the nervous system that include four major parts of the cell body, dendrites, axons, and terminal buttons. The synapse is a gap between neurons where a nerve impulses to travel down the axon to the synapse. A neurotransmitter is a chemical that allows neurons to send a signal across the…
