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Teen Mental Health Treatment During Summer Break
Teen Mental Health Treatment During Summer Break With over 18% of youth ages 11-17 considering suicide, and nearly 9% attempting suicide, according to the CDC, it is clear there is an urgent need for our teens to receive mental health treatment when needed....
Making a Smooth Transition from Inpatient to Outpatient Treatment
Making a Smooth Transition from Inpatient to Outpatient Treatment For both providers and patients, it is essential that there is a smooth transition in place for moving from inpatient to outpatient substance use treatment. To maximize recovery outcomes and...
Time to Man Up and Take Care of Your Mental Health
Men are under a lot of pressure. They may have stressful jobs, be dealing with financial pressures, have conflicts with their partners and family members, and be worried about their kids. But they are the ones in charge, they are the ones the family looks at to keep everything together, and they are the ones who don’t have time to take care of their own mental health needs. After all, just because they are stressed out about all these problems, they can’t show weakness and need to be strong, they are men after all.
Aspire Expands to Phoenix, AZ
In an era where diagnoses of mental health conditions and substance use disorders are increasingly prevalent, Aspire Counseling Services emerges as a beacon of hope and healing. Aspire has established itself as one of California’s premier providers of mental health and substance use treatment programs, is pleased to announce its expansion to Phoenix, Arizona.
Navigating Mental Health Challenges as a Parent: Tips and Resources for Support
Navigating Mental Health Challenges as a Parent: Tips and Resources for Support Parenting can be very rewarding, but also poses many challenges. For those who have mental health challenges, parenting can be more challenging than typical, and the worry of how...
Understanding Dual Diagnosis
When Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Co-occur Dual diagnosis, or co-occurring disorder, or comorbidity, is a term for when someone experiences a mental illness and a substance use disorder simultaneously. The effects of these conditions are...
Role Strain & The Superwoman Syndrome
Role strain is a result of someone trying to balance multiple roles that all seem to conflict and interfere with each other. For women, that seems to be an inevitable consequence of trying to raise a family, manage a career, and be a social queen, while striving to be the best in every role – the Superwoman Syndrome. We all have multiple roles to fulfill, it is when we push ourselves to the limit in all of those roles that we create role strain – which prohibits not only our ability to fulfill the responsibilities of each role, but also negatively impacts our health.
Get And Stay Sober For Yourself And Your Children
Many people try to convince themselves that their drinking or drug use impacts only them and no one else. The reality is, that if you are abusing alcohol or using drugs it impacts everyone around you, especially your children. If you are suffering from substance use disorder (SUD), then your primary focus is your substance of choice, not your children. Your children will suffer the psychological consequences of your substance use if you don’t achieve sobriety.
5 Signs Your Teen is Depressed
Depression in teenagers has significantly increased over the past few years. According to Mental Health America, nearly 10% of youth ages 11 to 17 suffer from severe major depression. This is why suicide is now the second leading cause of death for ages 5 to 24, with over 5,500 youth committing suicide in 2020. These statistics demonstrate the extreme importance of seeking mental health services for teenagers suffering from depression. As a parent, it is crucial that you understand the potential signs of depression in your teenager, and that simple willpower will not help them overcome depression, they will need mental health treatment. Aspire Counseling Services wants to make sure that parents know the depression signs to watch for in their teens.
Generational Trauma and Substance Use Disorder
Everyone has a basic understanding of genetic traits that are passed down through generations, from physical characteristics to medical genetic conditions. What many people may not realize is that trauma can also be genetically passed down through families. This is called generational trauma (or intergenerational trauma or transgenerational trauma). There is a relatively new field of study known as epigenetics, changes that occurred to the genome induced by environmental events, and which can genetically be passed down. Through the studying of epigenetics, they believe that trauma causes changes to an individual’s DNA, and that gene change is passed down to future generations. Because trauma affects genetic processes, this can lead to traumatic reactivity being heightened in their future generations.
Understanding Your Emotional Triggers
One of the most effective methods of protecting your mental health is by learning how to identify and manage your emotional triggers. We all have instances where things people do, or say, that rub us the wrong way and leave us emotionally upset. Emotional triggers can be any experience, event, person, or action, basically anything that causes a reaction in mind or body. If you are experiencing daily emotional triggers, that can be very stressful and challenging to cope with. The key to protecting your mental health is learning how to identify your emotional triggers, and how to manage your response to those triggers.
5 Signs You’re Enabling Your Loved One’s Addiction
When you have a loved one who is struggling with alcohol or substance use disorders, it is difficult to know how to properly help them. Many people make the mistake of enabling their loved one’s addiction rather than supporting them in their sobriety struggle. These are 5 signs that you may be enabling your loved one to continue their destructive behavior.
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