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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...
View ArticleAssisted Outpatient Treatment: Why It’s Needed
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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When Your Loved One Needs Hospitalization
As a therapist I have seen a variety of inpatient hospitalizations, some voluntary and others involuntary. Colleagues have had individuals who were removed from their homes by the police and taken to...
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Suicidal Thoughts: Know Signs and What To Do
Families are quite unaware of what leads their loved one(s) to consider suicide. Suicidal ideation is the act of entertaining thoughts of taking your life. For the most part, depression alone can...
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Quick Tips To DIY In Mental Health Care
Knowledge TRULY is power. Many caregivers and families often end up perplexed by the multiple avenues and types of treatment options available in social services. Many do not receive all the...
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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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Facts On ECT: Concerns With Shock Treatment
Electro-convulsive Therapy (ECT), termed shock therapy in the 1940s and 1950s, is a type of treatment used in cases of resistant or severe depression. It is often the last resort following a line of...
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Balancing The Argument Against Civil Commitment Laws
While surfing the web I read an article about the “uncivil” nature of civil commitment laws. Civil commitment is the legal process by which an individual with a severe mental illness can be...
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Taking Psychiatric Medication: How To Help Your Loved One
The introduction of Thorazine, an antipsychotic medication, in the mid 1950s led to multiple changes in mental health including positive (increased levels of independence, reduced psychiatric stay, and...
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Paying For Treatment: Barriers And 4 Ways Around Them
Would you know where to turn for funds to pay for mental health treatment? Would you know who to ask for referrals or information on federally funded programs? If not, you are not alone because many...
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10 Things That Cloak Incompetent Therapists
Photo by herlitz_pbs When I meet with clients and their families, I often hear the following comment over and over again: “I did not like the previous therapist.” A barrage of negatives often follows...
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Healthcare: 12 Problems With The Mental health System
How do you think of the mental health system in the United States? Is it everything we need it to be? Is it far behind research and the mental health needs of patients? Or…is it a failed mental health...
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5 Types of Therapy To Re-Think for Adopted/Foster Children
How would you feel if a therapist, who claimed to be trained in working with adopted or foster children with mental and behavioral health problems (a topic discussed last week) came into your home and...
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