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Your Healthy Outlook Can Promote Resilience and Recovery in Older Adults

Relias

Although many older adults remain mentally healthy, the World Health Organization says about 15% of adults over 60 have a mental disorder. Identifying disorders “Behavioral health” often refers to mental health , psychiatric care, counseling, and substance use disorders treatment.

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NASW Observes Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Month

Social Work Blog

NASW recognizes June as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Awareness Month. Treating PTSD and Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders Using Prolonged Exposure. The Center for Deployment Psychology will be hosting a 90-minute webinar entitled “Treating PTSD and Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders Using Prolonged Exposure.”

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Warning! Beware of Tardive Dyskenisia

Bipolar Bandit

However, I do feel a responsibility to caution you about taking psychiatric medications without doing research about side effects and become familiar with the signs of tardive dyskenisia. As you can see, the list is extensive and does not just include psychiatric medications. It frustrates me.no

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Safety Planning Checklist for You and Your Clients

Relias

Substance use disorder. Psychiatric Advance Directives. Substance use disorders and safety planning. The purpose of substance use safety planning is to support the client in recovery, help them maintain sobriety, and work to prevent relapses. The ramifications of these substance use disorders go beyond the individual.

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Safety Planning Checklist for You and Your Clients

Relias

Substance use disorder. Psychiatric Advance Directives. Substance use disorders and safety planning. The purpose of substance use safety planning is to support the client in recovery, help them maintain sobriety, and work to prevent relapses. The ramifications of these substance use disorders go beyond the individual.

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Am I Going Through a Nervous Breakdown?

Beautiful Voyager

In the past, mental health experts used many terms such as depression, anxiety, and acute stress disorder to refer to a nervous breakdown. The term is no longer used because it has not been recognized as a mental health disorder by the American Psychiatry Association in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5).

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How to Stop Gambling: 10 Tips

Gateway Foundation

This disorder’s leading characteristic is an overpowering urge to gamble, no matter the consequences. Those with gambling addiction are at an increased risk of developing a substance use disorder, which can arise from the same stressors. At the same time, consider all the positives of overcoming your gambling disorder.