Interpersonal Therapy

No longer is it possible to assess and/or treat a mental health population without also interfacing with forensic issues such as legal infractions, Courts, violence, sexual behavior problems, delinquency, crime, Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity, substance abuse, and others. The training and approaches to the mental health population is different than that for [...]

Many students over the summer enjoyed a relatively leisurely few months. Soon they will again begin their schooling season and many already have. Unfortunately, instead of experiencing a purely focused learning environment, many students’ stress levels will ramp up quickly. It’s that time of year again when students begin to prepare all semester long only [...]

The internet is an easy and simple for interpersonal communication and an excellent source of learning, improving one’s career, etc., can also cause psychological problems that can jeopardize your mental health. Internet if you are psychologically dependent activities related to r an alarm bell for you.
How can you addicted to the Internet?
The phenomenon of excessive [...]

Diverse values, specialist development, varied experiences, a unique mindset – mix it up and include a touch of interpretation and you have a human being with a social outlook. Leveraging differences between people is a daily necessity of living in societies, and leveraging our own perspective of the world – and others in it – [...]

The IMPACT treatment model is a stepped care program for the treatment of depression that utilizes a depression care manager who collaborates with the patient and the primary care physician and a psychiatrist as needed. Treatment includes depression education, Problem Solving Treatment, medication management, and behavioral activation. The patient is monitored closely using the PHQ-9 [...]

We develop as people as we experience different things and as we mature we become flexible enough to learn from our experiences and change our behaviour to better cope with life.  However, people who have a personality disorder find this difficult.  Their patterns of thinking, their feelings and behaviour remain fixed and so they will [...]

Personality classification goes back as far as the ancient Egyptians and Greeks. Disorders such as Dementia and Depression are described in the Egyptian Ebers Papyrus dating from about 1550 BCE. The writings suggests the Egyptians conceived mental and physical disorders in the same way. Medieval Arabic Psychological thinkers later described additional personality disorders and in [...]

Abuse & Violence in the Family
(Dr. Samson Omotosho, PhD, APRN/PMHN)
Introduction: Abuse and violence in the family refer to physically and emotionally harmful behaviors that occur between family and household members. It includes child abuse, child neglect, intimate partners abuse and violence, marital rape, and elder abuse. It could be a learned behavior that [...]

Mental health professionals describe depression as mental illness that is often characterized by prolonged periods of sadness and melancholy. However, if someone is just hating the world around him or her, doesn’t mean that it’s already depression, but if this kind of behavior, the feeling of emptiness, loss of self-worth and absolutely no hope for [...]

Standing as the first hospitalization program in New York for the treatment of eating disorders, Avalon Centers has been treating patients with programs since 1998. Avalon engages a group of highly skilled professions who are experts in treating patients diagnosed with Obesity, Binge Eating Disorders, Bulimia and Anorexia. The facility offers a supportive, home like [...]