Expert Parenting Tips for Parents in Recovery
Posted by Elements Behavioral Health As addicts, we like to believe that our behaviors only damage ourselves. What we do is nobody else’s business. But this is a delusion crafted by the disease of addiction. In reality, our behaviors affect friends, relatives, co-workers and everyone we come into contact with. And no one suffers more […]
Parenting Responsibilities: 10 Things You Are (and Aren’t) Responsible for as a Parent
by Sara Bean, M.Ed. These days, we’re bombarded with mixed messages about how to parent “the right way.” It’s easy to buy into advice from the media, relatives, and other parents and start to worry that we’re doing something wrong. Part of the reason this is happening is because adults, just like kids, are over-stimulated. […]
How Depression Affects all Stages of Life, Childhood through Adulthood
by Elizabeth Rahamim, LCSW, SAP Depression is a mysterious thing. In younger children and pre-teens, the child does not appear to be depressed typically, but irritable, unmotivated and seemingly disrespectful. As the body grows into adulthood and the shift from concrete thought processes to more abstract thinking occurs, people can develop more common signs of […]
Workplace Depression
By SCOTT WALLACE, PH.D., R.PSYCH. Workplace depression is an area of increasing concern. When an employee is depressed, it can affect not only that employee’s productivity and happiness, but the entire mood of his or her co-workers and their productivity too. Luckily, depression in the workplace is not inevitable or hopeless. Steps can be taken […]
Treating for Depression Can Prevent Teen Drug Abuse
By JANICE WOOD Associate News Editor Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on June 5, 2012 Treating adolescents for depression can reduce their chances of abusing drugs later on, new research has found. Researchers at Duke University found that only 10 percent of 192 adolescents whose depression receded after 12 weeks of treatment later abused […]
Substance Use and Depression
Depression and Substance Abuse People with depression may turn to drugs or alcohol to medicate their pain. By Dennis Thompson Jr. Medically reviewed by Christine Wilmsen Craig, MD Mood disorders like depression and substance abuse go together so frequently that doctors have coined a term for it: dual diagnosis. People who have suffered recent episodes […]
Different Clients, Different Solutions
by Elizabeth Rahamim, LCSW, SAP It is interesting how referrals come into the practice. Ironically, I always seem to get clusters of clients who are facing very similar issues at a given time. Last summer, I saw quite a few teens who were suffering from the disease of Substance Dependence. After the new school year […]
Significance of REM Sleep in Depression: Effects on Neurogenesis
by Laura Palagini*1, Angelo Gemignani2 and Mario Guazzelli1 1Department of Psychiatry, Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Biotechnology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy School of Medicine, Via Roma 67 Pisa 56100, Italy 2Department of Physiological Sciences, University of Pisa, Extreme Centre, Scuola Superiore Sant’ Anna and Institute of Clinical Physiology Research National Council, Pisa, Italy Disturbances of sleep […]
Link Between REM Sleep and Depression
Press Release from: University of Rochester The search for the genetic roots of depression has led scientists to the bedroom, where they’ve discovered that people with a particular type of sleep pattern and a family history of depression are twice as likely to become depressed as relatives who don’t sleep the same way. The link […]
Insomnia & Depression: Bedfellows
Article By Psychology Today Sleep disturbances are a hallmark of depression, but insomnia can actually unleash the mood disorder. Treating sleep disturbances might help prevent depressive episodes. By Hara Estroff Marano Sleep disturbances and unipolar depression are such intransigent bedfellows that troubled sleep is considered a hallmark of the mood disorder. At least 80% of […]