Parents do not typically start out parenting their teen or tween with poor intentions. The biggest mistakes are sometimes born from the best intentions. Understanding some of these issues can go a long way in preventing unnecessary pain and emotional problems in tweens and teens today. What are some common mistakes parents make that could
There are more than 200 classified forms of diagnosable mental illness. The top psychological or emotional problems that people have nowadays include anxiety disorders, mono-polar depression and bipolar disorder. Dementia is a relatively common disorder in older age groups (there are many kinds of dementia), and schizophrenia (unfortunately) is a relatively common category as well.
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Helping Patients to Understand the Potential Impact of Disclosing Their Condition According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, 43.8 million adults in America experience this type of condition each year. That’s one in five adults who share the effects of mental illness on their social lives. What’s more, 18.1 percent of adults live with
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In today’s volatile world of mass shootings and terrorist attacks, more and more people are suffering from painful memories and negative mental images because of the constant trauma that’s occurring daily. In fact, up to 70 percent of veterans suffering with chronic pain who have been treated within the VA (US Veterans Administrations) may be
Published by the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps Abstract Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a disabling trauma and stress-related disorder that may occur after a person experiences a traumatic event, and evokes a combination of intrusion and avoidance symptoms, negative alterations in cognitions and mood, and alterations in arousal and reactivity. Accelerated resolution therapy
Article by Charles W. Hoge, MD and July Lies, MSc | Federal Practitioner Diagnostic discordance between posttraumatic stress disorder definitions, treatment dropout rates, comorbidities, and varying policy approaches leave VA and DoD clinicians with unique concerns in providing effective treatment for many postwar health problems. Read Article (PDF) PTSDArticle_Hoge_Lies_FederalPractitioner_April2015
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The USF College of Nursing leads research on a novel technique to alleviate veterans’ symptoms of combat-related and military sexual trauma. By Saundra AmrheinOn a recent spring morning, Artricia James-Heard walked into the office of a therapist trained in an innovative technique being studied by researchers at the University of South Florida. Upon entering, James-Heard,
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Linda Hurtado | Tampa Tribune Army Green Beret Brian Anderson came back from deployment in Afghanistan with images that haunted him. Visions of eight-hour fire fights and the death of two friends left him with odd and overwhelming symptoms. “I thought they were blood pressure issues, diabetes or something like that,” he said. “When I
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Command Post Tampa Blog | Tampa Bay Online There is a unique study about to launch at USF into whether a novel technique, called Accelerated Resolution Therapy, can treat PTSD in as little as one session. Read Article>>>
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Inside USF Blog, Tampa Bay Online | Lindsay Peterson The U.S. Army has given USF’s nursing college $2.1 million to start a new therapy center for Iraq and Afghanistan war vets. To put the grant into perspective, it’s the equivalent of about $50 for each of the roughly 40,000 Florida vets now suffering from post-traumatic
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