The March/April 2012 Issue of Social Work Today covered a familiar topic for our residents and other diagnosed individuals: Should I consider residential treatment? How can I choose the best residential treatment center that fits my individual needs? Because there are no solid rules or guidelines to quickly figure out an answer, finding the answers [...]

Caring for a 23-year-old son or daughter with Asperger’s syndrome is a very unique challenge. Questions like these can easily arise in the mind: How can you help your child to become self-sufficient and take care of himself? How can you help your child develop the life skills to survive when you’re not around? The [...]

Bipolar Disorder, also know as manic depression, is an illness in which the person’s mood alternates between the high of mania and the low of depression. It affects all areas of a person’s life, including work, relationships and daily functioning. About 5.7 million U.S. adults are living with bipolar disorder. Luckily, however, proper treatment can [...]

In the late 1980’s Marsha M. Linehan developed a type of therapy to address the needs of women suffering from suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, or tendencies to self-harm. She began treating individuals with Borderline Personality. This therapy was called “Dialectical Behavior Therapy” or DBT and it researched the environmental and biological factors that may cause [...]

Memory can create trouble for us, causing us to forget or distort the past. Sometimes disturbing memories may haunt us for years. Memory plays a pervasive role in our daily lives. This can be taken for granted until one realizes the memory failing them. The following are the 7 most common errors of memory. 1. [...]

A life with constant worry, stress, fear, and frustration is common with many anxiety sufferers. Catastrophic thinking, however, has a large impact on those with social anxiety…but what is it exactly? Catastrophic Thinking: An event “where a person imagines scenarios in his or her head that are way more intense or graphic than what can [...]

In our society, perfectionism is viewed as a wonderful characteristic. The high standards and work ethic can produce excellent work and events. This attention to detail can open the opportunities for individuals to reach their best potential. However, some perfectionists become tormented in their pursuit of an errorless life. These individuals become stuck in their [...]

The New Year is a time to assess oneself and resolve to get healthy. However, it is not all about setting physical goals that seem unattainable. It is greatly important to remember to monitor one’s mental health. A regular doctors visit is great, but a check from the neck up is greatly important too! Jacqueline [...]

We’ve all been in bad moods from time to time. Having negative thoughts during a difficult life experience is part of being human. Most of the time, we continue to function and move on. But for people with depression, negative thoughts can take over and distort your view of reality. Cognitive therapy is one way [...]

We all want to feel happy and everyone has different ways of achieving emotional fulfillment. In Psychology Today, Barton Goldsmith covered a list of tips to help find happiness. Here’s the top 10 ways to find happiness and harness the true power of your emotions: Be with others who make you smile: Don’t waste your [...]