Treatment Articles

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• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Uncertainty
  Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a neurologically-based anxiety disorder characterized by intrusive, unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors or thoughts (compulsions) that ...
• Who Is a Sex Addict?
  Increasing numbers of men and women are seeking clinical treatment for sexual addiction. This is partly the result ...
• Hypersexuality: Symptoms of Sexual Addiction
  Sexual addiction or hypersexuality is defined as a dysfunctional preoccupation with sexual fantasy, often in combination with the ...
• Using EMDR Therapy to Heal Your Past: Interview with Creator Francine Shapiro
  Francine Shapiro, Ph.D, first discovered and developed EMDR therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) in ...
• 5 Outdated Beliefs About ECT
  When severe depression doesn’t respond to antidepressants and psychotherapy, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) may be the next step. ECT ...
• Facing Bipolar: The Young Adult’s Guide to Dealing With Bipolar Disorder
  This book on bipolar disorder is written specifically for teens and young adults with the condition. I chose to read it because I work in the education field and it is helpful to have some ...
• A Current Look at Chronic Depression
  A chronic form of depression, dysthymia is characterized by depressed mood on most days for at least two ...
• Bright Not Broken: Gifted Kids, ADHD, and Autism
  Diane M. Kennedy and Rebecca S. Banks, the authors of Bright Not Broken, and the contributor, Temple Grandin, all have a combination of personal and professional experience with learning and developmental disabilities. Kennedy and Banks are ...
• Premature Death Rates Rising in Schizophrenia, Bipolar Patients
  People with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder have a substantially raised risk of premature death, research warns, and the risk ...
• Trauma-Informed Practices with Children and Adolescents
  Trauma-Informed Practices with Children and Adolescents by William Steel and Cathy A. Malchiodi is a powerful and user-friendly book aimed at educating clinicians in their work with child and adolescent trauma survivors. This comprehensive book ...
• OCD and College Accommodations
  An interesting article recently appeared in the Wall Street Journal. “A Serious Illness or an Excuse” is worth reading and talks about ...
• 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 ...