Blog posts with the tag "Treatment"

Staff Perspective: Crayons Aren’t Just for Kids - Art Therapy in Addiction Treatment

By heather tompkins  on 30.10.2024 6:57 am

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

Practically Speaking: Behind the Episode - “When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Stress First Aid (SFA)”

By Jenna Ermold  on 11.09.2024 9:25 am

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.

Practically Speaking: Behind the Episode - “Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Ears: The Real Deal With the Righting Reflex”

By Jenna Ermold  on 28.08.2024 8:28 am
Dr. Jenna Ermold

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.

Staff Perspective: Introducing the Second Life Island for Preventing Suicide

By Maegan Paxton Willing  on 21.08.2024 11:35 am

Over the last few years, the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) has been hard at work developing a first of its kind training for the core components of cognitive behavioral therapy for suicide prevention (CBT-SP). The resulting Second Life Island for Preventing Suicide, or SLIPS, is an asynchronous, avatar-based learning environment focused on reinforcing the concepts learned during traditional two-day CBT-SP workshops.

Practically Speaking - Behind the Episode, “Meeting Clients Where They Are - EBPs in Dual Diagnosis Cases”

By Kevin Holloway  on 14.08.2024 10:51 am

By show of hands, how many of us encounter clients that are struggling with substance abuse and addiction in the midst of dealing with other mental health issues? Ok, this is a blog, so of course I can’t see your hands, but I am imagining a wall of hands in the air of everyone reading this. And of course that is because substance use disorders are highly co-morbid with other mental health conditions. If you’re like me, having received training in several evidence-based psychotherapies for various conditions, you may not have a lot of experience or training in how to treat or manage co-morbid substance use disorders (SUD). This can be particularly true regarding the addition of medication-assisted therapist (MAT) for SUD.

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