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Psychiatric Care and Your Loved One: Know Your Legal Rights
photo credit: SalFalko Taking control over a loved one’s mental health care is extremely important. Families or caregivers of an individual with a severe or untreated mental illness often believe that...
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Adolescence and Violence: What We May Never Understand
Around the same time 2 weeks ago during the Houston Texas Community College shootings, Nehemiah Griego, 15 years old, shot his family to death in Albuquerque New Mexico. The young man allegedly...
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When Your Loved One Needs Care: Understanding Confidentiality
Many families and friends express frustration with confidentiality when healthcare information is needed. Confidentiality is defined as your legal and moral right to privacy in a therapeutic setting....
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When Your Loved One Needs Care: HIPAA
Therapists face pressure when it comes to employing the principles of HIPAA and confidentiality, which often go hand and hand. Confidentiality is your legal and moral right to privacy in a healthcare...
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When Your Loved One Needs Care: Patient Rights
It’s always important to have a thorough discussion with your healthcare provider prior to receiving treatment. This gives you the opportunity to ask questions about treatment, length of treatment, and...
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When Mental Illness and Homelessness Collide: What to do
Homelessness can affect any of us. No one is exempt from this reality. Life is simply unpredictable. For many struggling with homelessness, it can be rather easy to hide. With a PO Box or the address...
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Reduced Inpatient Care And Challenges In Mental Health Treatment
De-institutionalization, the process of reducing long-term stay, has created much controversy in mental health. How do you feel about this historical event? Help or hindrance? Families, caregivers,...
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Watch these short clips from the Treatment Advocacy Center on Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) and why we need legislation to seriously consider the need for AOT. Why consumers need assisted...
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Autism Awareness Day: The Family Experience
When children come into the world the last thing we think is that the child is going to encounter a difficult developing experience. Babies come into the world so innocently and unprepared for the road...
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Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day
Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day is coming up May 9, 2013 and this is a time to focus exclusively on the issues that plague our children today. Issues that dominate the media are also of...
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What Depression Is & What It Is Not
Depression is quite complicated. It entails a host of symptoms that perplex even the savviest therapist. Depression is even more complicated in children and men because the expression of symptoms is...
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What Does NOS Mean? Understanding Confusing Diagnostic Language
One of the biggest issues I encounter as a child therapist among parents, families, and caregivers is that they are often very misinformed about mental illness, treatments, and NOS categories. NOS...
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Questionable Diagnoses: Are We Really That Ill?
One of the most important questions parents have asked me regarding their children receiving therapeutic services is “how can we prove he really has this disorder?” Some parents, families, and...
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When Should You Worry About Mental Health Treatment?
Have you ever questioned whether you or a loved one should be receiving psychiatric treatment or counseling? If so, you are not alone. Many individuals and families have questioned whether psychiatric...
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Caring for Youth In Crisis: What Is A Family To Do?
How would you feel if a healthcare provider said to you “come back with your son (or daughter) when he/she tells you they want to kill themselves or someone else? What about if this mental health...
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Children with Severe Behavior Problems: 5 Ways To Build Self-Esteem
Most parents today desire children who do everything they’re told. It is so much easier to raise children who know how to listen, follow rules, and respect authority. But reality today, is very...
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Preparing For A Mental Health Evaluation
Would you know what to expect during your first psychiatric evaluation? If you were accompanying a loved one, would you know what to do or say? Would you be able to offer the detailed information...
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The Explosive Personality: Understanding Histrionic Traits
Do you know someone who is emotionally explosive (blowing up at the slightest thing, becoming hysterical over minor infractions), self-centered, rageful, and distorted self-image? Have you found...
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Why Avoidant Personality and Reactive Attachment Disorder Are Similar
Last week I spoke about Avoidant Personality Disorder, a disorder characterized by the “he loves me, he loves me not syndrome.” The individual lives a life of perpetual distrust and yet has a desire to...
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Parenting: How Your Style Can Negatively Affect Mental Health
Click here for photo credit Did you know that your parenting style can determine the emotional and psychological well-being of your child? Being the parent of a child has to be one of the most...
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