Author Seth J. Gillihan, PhD of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple offers many everyday easy tactics to help us break down using cognitive behavioral therapy in our everyday lives. His ten strategies in his book include topics from goal setting, activating behavior, identifying and breaking negative thought patterns, maintaining mindfulness, and plenty other useful ways…
The contemporary views of psychopathology include biological approaches, psychological approaches, and behaviorism. Biological approaches include the study of genetics and biological treatments. Psychological approaches differ as they focus on psychoanalysis therapy. Behaviorism addresses aspects such as classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and modeling. Biological Approaches: General paresis and syphilis were significant to the evidence of mental…
Treatments for anxiety disorders include psychological treatments and the administration of medication. Psychological treatments often include exposure methods such as virtual reality or in vivo exposure, cognitive behavioral therapy, relaxation treatments, and other cognitive behavior models. The use of anxiolytics is also often involved in the treatment plans of anxiety disorders and prescribe either antidepressants…
Opioids include opium, morphine, heroin, and codeine. Moderate doses relieve pain however prescription pain medications are among the most abused of all drugs. These include Vicodin, Zydone, Lortab, Percodan, Tylox, and OxyContin. 7% of the US has misused at least once. The use of heroin is more common in men with people most often starting with…
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…
