Treatment Articles

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• ERP Therapy: A Good Choice for Treating OCD
  During OCD Awareness Week in October, I sat in front of my computer, mesmerized, as I watched a live ...
• NeuroCounseling: Simple Therapeutic Interventions for Rewiring the Maladaptive Brain
  While I was taking my undergraduate and graduate classes many moons ago, my least favorite courses were the ...
• What You Need to Know About Treatment-Resistant Depression
  Depression can be effectively treated with psychotherapy and medication. But it takes time to find the correct medication ...
• Healing Painful Sex: A Woman’s Guide to Confronting, Diagnosing and Treating Sexual Pain
  In Healing Painful Sex: A Woman’s Guide to Confronting, Diagnosing, and Treating Sexual Pain, physician Deborah Coady, MD, and psychotherapist Nancy Fish, MSW, MPH, combine their medical and psychological expertise to write a book about ...
• Clinicians on the Couch: Q&A with Psychologist Charles H. Elliott
  In this regular feature, we talk with a different therapist each month about their work, advice to ...
• The Memory Palace: A Memoir
  We children of schizophrenics are the great secret-keepers, the ones who don’t want you to think anything is wrong (p. 5). Author Mira Bartok has encapsulated in this statement her life as the daughter of mentally ...
• 5 Damaging Myths About Postpartum Depression
  Postpartum depression (PPD) is one of the most common complications of childbirth, according to Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD, MPH, director of the Perinatal Psychiatry Program at the UNC Center for Women's Mood Disorders. PPD ...
• OCD: Treatment for Contamination Fears
  Before discussing currently accepted treatments for contamination obssessive-compulsive (OC) disorder, let's cover treatments that should be avoided (but unfortunately are still used ...
• Avoidance in OCD: It’s Never the Answer
  One of the common ways that people deal with anxiety is through avoidance. Afraid to fly? Well then, don’t. A large crowd of people ...
• The Truth About Animal-Assisted Therapy
  You know the impact your pet has on your life. But can the same sense of healing, security and unconditional love that ...
• Courage and Limits with Your Teen
  This column uses a story based on a real-life situation in therapy to represent both the teen and parent viewpoints on ...
• The Media and Mental Illness: The Good, the Bad and the Ridiculous
  When portraying mental illness and psychotherapy, the media tends to get it wrong -- ...
• Clinicians on the Couch: 10 Questions with Therapist Julie Hanks
  Want to get a glimpse into a therapist’s world? Learn what therapy is really like? And get some wise advice ...
• Brave Girl Eating: A Family’s Struggle with Anorexia
  Between three and six percent of all teens struggle with some type of eating disorder, be it bulimia, binge eating, or anorexia. Because these illnesses involve eating, they seem to take a blow at family ...
• Childhood Psychological Disorders: Current Controversies
  Childhood Psychological Disorders: Current Controversies by Alberto M. Bursztyn is the latest edition to the “Making Sense of Psychology” series. This series concerns itself with the psychological problems and challenges in the lives of today’s ...
• The Natural Medicine Guide to Bipolar Disorder
  Having a special interest in how diet & physical activity help ease the symptoms of mood disorders, I was excited to review Stephanie Marohn’s book The Natural Medicine Guide to Bipolar Disorder.  This review covers ...
• How To Change Your Drinking: A Harm Reduction Guide To Alcohol
  Substance misuse is one of the most common and widely discussed topics within the mental health community, as both clients and professionals debate the most effective ways to deal with addictions and their causes. In the ...
• Natural Remedies for Dealing with Stress
  Many Americans today are under huge amounts of stress. With the decline of the economy, many find themselves dealing with ...
• Trauma Essentials: The Go-To Guide
  Trauma Essentials: The Go-To Guide by Babette Rothschild is a reference book for clinician and client alike. Rothschild has successfully taken the enormously complex subject of trauma therapy and recovery and broken it down into ...
• Kids On Meds: Up-to-Date Information About the Most Commonly Prescribed Psychiatric Medications
  Kids On Meds by Dr. Kevin T. Kalikow is both an education and a go-to guide for the medical professional and layman alike. Parents will find this book particularly informative, whether they want to know ...
• Accepting and Overcoming Anxiety
  So there you are in the middle of a business meeting, Wal-Mart, a shopping mall, your kids’ school play, and out of nowhere, ...
• Alternative Treatments for Depression
  There are a wide range of alternative treatments for depression. Before seeking out a mental health professional or talking to their doctor, a ...
• Dispelling Myths about Dissociative Identity Disorder
  Dissociative identity disorder (DID), known previously as multiple personality disorder, is not a real disorder. At least, that’s what you ...
• Length of Stay for Residential OCD Treatment
  Toward the end of his freshman year of college, my son Dan’s obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) was so severe that he ...
• Therapists Spill: The Best Advice I’ve Received On Conducting Therapy
  There are certain words of wisdom that stay with you the rest of your life -- especially ...