The Park Bench℠ addiction treatment center in Southeastern New Jersey now offers specialized treatment for trauma, which is often a major contributor to addiction and co-occurring mental health disorders.
Clinicians from the Elements Behavioral Health family of treatment centers will discuss trauma, addiction and related disorders at the 10th Annual Symposium of the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals in Phoenix.
Christine A. Courtois, PhD, ABPP, national clinical trauma consultant for Promises Treatment Centers and Elements Behavioral Health, releases her latest book titled It’s Not You, It’s What Happened to You: Complex Trauma and Treatment.
Christine A. Courtois, PhD, ABPP, national clinical trauma consultant for Elements Behavioral Health, co-edits a newly released book titled Spiritually Oriented Psychotherapy for Trauma.
Evidence-based psychotherapy is the general term for forms of psychotherapeutic mental health treatment that have had their effectiveness verified by well-constructed scientific studies. Not all forms of psychotherapy meet this standard, and many people fail to gain a significant benefit from participation in non-evidence-based approaches. According to the authors of a study review published in […]
Money will go for PTSD research, job training. The head of the global Starbucks coffee company has announced that he’ll donate $30 million for research to benefit veterans with PTSD and traumatic brain injuries. The money will also go to provide job training.
Her father’s despair seeped into every waking moment, poisoning the family. By age 5, Christal Presley routinely barricaded her dresser against her bedroom door. He could go from fetal position to fury. “I’m going to the river, and I won’t be back!” he would yell, grabbing a gun. “For the first two years of that, […]
Finding could help people with post-traumatic stress disorder, researchers say. PTSD, or post-traumatic stress disorder, is a psychological disorder that results from terrifying experiences. Veterans of war are at risk of this disorder because of what they have been through while engaged in combat, but others are susceptible too. PTSD can develop after one is […]
A traumatic event can have a lasting impact on an individual. For some, the memory of the event generates feelings of shame, guilt, anger, fear and other emotions. In the medical field, such reactions are often referred to as appraisals as they relate to the perceptions developed due to the traumatic event. If these appraisals […]
The passing of years sometimes does not erase the emotional impact of war’s cruel realities. Seeing your friend and fellow soldier suffer injury or possibly die can lead to seemingly endless rounds of self-questioning and doubt. Thoughts about how the tragedy might have been averted and wondering what could have been done differently haunt survivors […]
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