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What Pediatricians Need to Know About Diagnosing and Treating Pediatric Anxiety

Iris Telehealth

This is our second piece in our series on pediatric behavioral health conditions. As a pediatrician or healthcare organization providing pediatric behavioral health services, you’re likely experiencing the impact of that trend first-hand. According to The Journal of Pediatrics , of the 4.4

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How to Set Effective Mental Health Goals for Your Clients

TheraNest

Reading Time: 5 Minutes As a mental health professional, one of the most important tasks is to help your clients or groups set effective goals. For example, you may notice a behavior that worsens your client’s panic attack. As a clinician, you may set goals to help the client modify that behavior.

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How to Set Effective Mental Health Goals for Your Clients

TheraNest

Reading Time: 5 Minutes As a mental health professional, one of the most important tasks is to help your clients or groups set effective goals. For example, you may notice a behavior that worsens your client’s panic attack. As a clinician, you may set goals to help the client modify that behavior.

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How Your Healthcare Organization Can Effectively Reduce the Usage of Benzodiazepines

Iris Telehealth

Benzodiazepines are a class of sedatives or hypnotics, and they are most commonly used for insomnia, panic disorders, situational anxiety (like fear of flying), or other sleep disorders. The pros to using benzos are that they’re effective and fast-acting, making them a common medication for panic disorders and situational anxiety.

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Healthcare as a Meeting of Two Experts

Society for Participatory Medicine

One told me that the psychologist or therapist is the expert on mental health treatment and research but the patient or client is the expert on their own experience and symptoms. Sharing experiences of mental health symptoms can be hard for patients due to stigma, disbelief from friends and family and bad experiences with previous providers.

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RTLS Helps Address Staff Duress

Healthcare IT Today

“Using our real time location sensing technology platform and a wearable RTLS badge, we provide them [healthcare workers] with a panic alarm button. Asher shared the success of their Staff Duress solution at a 150-bed behavioral health center in the Midwest: “As you can imagine, they have violent situations almost on a weekly basis.

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Trauma Narratives in Mental Health Counseling

TheraNest

Cases of severe trauma can cause post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), where reminders of the events trigger intolerable memories and associated emotional and physical responses like panic attacks or uncontrollable rage. The post Trauma Narratives in Mental Health Counseling appeared first on TheraNest.