Therapists and counselors can have very different opinions on the role of psychotropic medications in mental health care. The majority of mental health professionals appear to agree that medications are necessary in the most severe ...
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) estimates that, in 2014, 21.5 million people in the United States age twelve and older had at least one substance use disorder (SUD), as cited by ...
Substance use disorders (SUDs) are highly prevalent in veteran populations. Among US veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, for example, approximately one in ten have been diagnosed with an SUD (Seal et al., ...
As an independent researcher, professor, and clinical officer in many venues for more than forty years, I am an insider who has grown to love struggling addicts and I invite you to face with me ...
For decades, addiction professionals have been providing screening and assessment instruments that evaluate problem severity, complexity, and chronicity, but offer little data on internal and external resources individuals and families can mobilize in resolving such ...
The behavioral health field is engaged in a movement to expand the conventional medical treatment model of care that emphasizes diagnosis and subsequent treatment to the more comprehensive and inclusive model of population health. Improving ...
Adolescence, by its very nature, is full of turmoil as we transition developmentally from childhood to adulthood. These are the hurricane years when the winds pull us in many directions, sometimes even unpredictably throwing us ...
Any useful analysis of adolescents and pornography must first start with facts. The first and most important fact to understand is that kids engage with and through technology as much if not more than they ...
American adolescents now face a staggering burden of mental illness. It is an epidemic without precedent. An estimated 32 percent of United States teens have already experienced at least one DSM-based anxiety disorder, and over ...
Alcohol and other drug use can negatively affect adolescents physical and mental health. It is associated with the major causes of mortality and morbidity in this age group, and can seriously disrupt healthy development (Clingempeel, ...
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