If you have insomnia, you have a number of different behavioral treatment options available. These options offer effective, long-term benefits without the need for sleep aids or ongoing medication. However, you may not know where to go to look for them or which is the right fit for you. In this article, let’s unpack and compare these options to get started.
Is it normal to feel helpless as a provider when working with people who are in ongoing traumatic situations, like war? In my opinion, absolutely yes. As providers, we are trained to help alleviate problems and suffering. But that isn’t usually possible when someone is in an ongoing situation.
As I sat down to write this this blog, numerous thoughts came to mind as to what I wanted to write for National Substance Use Prevention Month. We all too frequently hear the statistics across various sources regarding the opioid crisis, the rising numbers of overdose, and the impacts substance use has on the individual, families, relationships, and communities. With my thinking cap on, I contemplated the direction for the blog. Most of my career has been working within the addiction and comorbid behavioral health fields, so while statistics and assessment have their own importance, my mind kept going to the process of transformation that can occur and the creative process that individuals can take to reach the end goal of sustained recovery
As behavioral health providers, many of us receive training, and are well positioned to help people after a disaster or traumatic event. But what do you do in situations of ongoing threat, ongoing stress and adversity, perhaps lasting months or years? In this episode of Practical for Your Practice, we are joined by the amazing Dr. Patricia Watson, a psychologist at the National Center for PTSD, who walks us through the incredibly versatile Stress First Aid (SFA) model.
How much advice should a provider provide, if the provider could provide advice? As behavioral health providers we often, with good intentions, get swept up in a mission of change with (for?) our clients. A client states problems they are experiencing and we clearly see what needs to be “fixed” and jump in with our EBP guns blazing. But perhaps, at times, we are a little too quick on the draw.