Recovery Month: A Time for Celebration and Hope
It’s easy to feel hopeless and defeated when you’ve struggled with drug and alcohol abuse for years. The addiction cycle keeps many people trapped for months, years, and even decades. One [...]
Electronic Etiquette in the Digital Age
By: David Greenfield, PhD, MS, LMFT, Clinical Pathway Director | Technology Addiction A New Normal Americans have not yet processed how to deal with the smartphone’s ever-presence in daily living. We [...]
COVID-19 Sends Drug Overdose Deaths Skyrocketing
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an incredible number of unpredictable circumstances and situations. From increased time spent at home as a result of such factors including job loss, children and [...]
Minorities & Mental Health Treatment: Recognizing the Gaps
Mental illness knows no boundaries. It does not discriminate. There is no single picture of what mental illness looks like; anyone can experience mental health struggles no matter who they are [...]
Secondary Trauma: Absorbing the Pain of Your Loved One
Experiencing a traumatic event is enough to leave anyone shaken but sometimes that shaken feeling sticks around. It develops into a condition called post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), something that most people [...]
Understanding Alcoholism During Alcohol Awareness Month
Each April marks Alcohol Awareness Month, a campaign to spread the truth about those trapped in the grips of alcohol abuse. Alcohol Awareness Month is sponsored by the National Council on [...]
Spring Cleaning for the Mind
By: Denise Etherton, M.A., LPC, Regional Director of Clinical Partnerships, Lifeskills South Florida Do you ever feel like your brain is full of clutter and you can’t find things when you [...]
Using DBT’s Four Main Skills to Prevent Self-Injury
March 1st has been known as Self-Injury Awareness Day within the mental health community for the last 20 years. Every year, this global event does the important work of raising awareness [...]
Thriving in a Digital World: The Impact of Devices
There’s no returning to a world free from constant digital distractions. People walking down the street, their gaze glued to the screen of their smartphone, would have looked absurd two decades [...]
Thriving in 2021: The Importance of Routines & Resetting into the New Year
You know the saying, “Humans are creatures of habit”? That might be one of the absolute truths about humanity. Sure, spontaneous moments and surprises are a nice change of pace. It’s [...]
Managing Anxiety During Family Gatherings
Holidays are an exciting time of year, bringing people together to celebrate after months apart. It is a time of connection, tradition, and joy. Even under the current circumstances, some families [...]
5 Ways Being Thankful Impacts Your Mental Health
The beginning of November marks a shift in the year into the season of gratitude and thankfulness. The holiday season is here and that usually means a time to gather with [...]
PTSD Awareness: Why should we care?
By Dr. Arthur Chen, PsyD As we turn to the calendar to June this year, 2020 has been by all accounts, a difficult and challenging year. It is safe to say, [...]
Is there a connection between social media and mental health?
We live in a world where life for many is played out on social media. In fact, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, over 3 billion people globally use [...]
Social Connection and Healthy Activities are Important to Mental Health
May is Mental Health Month! Last year’s theme – 4Mind4Body was a huge success so we are going to the next level to explore new topics that benefit our whole body. [...]
National Recovery Month: How do I help?
Now in its 29th year, National Recovery Month celebrates the success of those in recovery and helps to raise awareness and understanding of mental health and substance use disorders. This year’s [...]
May is Mental Health Month
May is Mental Health Month, a time to raise awareness about mental health, and one of the most recognized mental health awareness events in the country. This year’s theme, Fitness #4Mind4Body, [...]
The Importance of the Family in Residential Treatment
By: Sara Arce, LMHC, CAP, Director of Family Services What defines a family varies on a person’s culture, belief systems, and circumstances, and is not necessarily stagnant over time. Family can [...]
Resisting the Stigma and Raising Awareness of Addiction: A Discussion with Heather Hayes
As Heather Hayes was gathering information for her speech, A Nation Held Hostage, she created an acronym for a call-to-action in helping fight the mental illness of addiction. RESIST is built [...]
Benefits of Cognitive Remediation Therapy
Cognitive remediation therapy (CRT), also called cognitive enhancement therapy, helps a person learn skills to manage their everyday life. CRT aims to reduce problems with cognition, such as attention, memory, and [...]