Dual Diagnosis: Clear Signs, Causes, and Care Paths
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Psychoeducation Strategies For Powerful Recovery
Psychoeducation Strategies For Powerful Recovery
Seeking Safety: Proven Care for Co-Occurring Disorders
Seeking Safety is a Proven Care option for Co-Occurring Disorders (substance use disorder plus mental health disorder happening at the same time)
Proven Trauma Informed Recovery Skills For Lasting Change
Trauma Informed care is an organizational and clinical approach. It recognizes how common trauma is and how it affects brain and behavior. Treatment environments can either support recovery or unintentionally retraumatize. In SUD, mental health, and co-occurring care, this approach means every policy, interaction, and intervention promotes safety. It also promotes choice, collaboration, empowerment, andContinue reading “Proven Trauma Informed Recovery Skills For Lasting Change”
DBT Therapy: Essential Skills For Emotional Regulation And Recovery
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a structured offshoot of CBT. It is a skills-based approach that blends acceptance and change to help people manage intense emotions, reduce crises, and build steadier relationships. Psychologist Marsha Linehan created DBT Therapy to teach practical behaviors you can use in real time. These include mindfulness to steady attention, distressContinue reading “DBT Therapy: Essential Skills For Emotional Regulation And Recovery”
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: How to Break Unhelpful Loops
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is a practical way to help you feel and function better. It helps you notice unhelpful patterns in the way you think, the way you feel, and the way you act. Then it gives you tools to change those patterns so life feels more manageable. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy starts withContinue reading “Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: How to Break Unhelpful Loops”
Motivational Interviewing: Proven Change Talk For Lasting Recovery
Motivational interviewing is a proven, team-based therapy that helps you build your reasons and confidence to change. Through patient-centered conversations that emphasize autonomy, this approach explores and resolves ambivalence. It draws out values and goals that support commitment to a recovery path defined by you. More than simple talk, motivational interviewing helps you explore whyContinue reading “Motivational Interviewing: Proven Change Talk For Lasting Recovery”