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The Wellness Recovery Action Plan: Creating an Instruction Manual for Your Mental Health
Imagine you wake up one day and discover that you feel a bit “off.” Maybe you’re more irritable than usual, or maybe you just feel unmotivated. Maybe you …
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Domestic Violence Intervention: How Rehabilitating Abusers Helps Victims
Domestic violence, also known as family violence or intimate partner violence, affects millions of individuals in the U.S. every year. The National Domestic Violence Hotline reports that 12 …
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Explaining Flow: How “Getting in the Zone” Can Help with Mental Wellness
Have you ever been “in the zone” with a project? Or you sat down to do something you love and somehow the ideas just seemed to come to …
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How to Spot and Respond to Cyberbullying, a Growing Problem for Children and Teens
In a world where technology is a dominant feature in most of our lives, it would seem that bullying would be a thing of the past. Everyone’s on …
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Compassion Fatigue: Overcoming a Common Challenge for People Who Help Others
Any type of work that puts people under large amounts of stress for extended periods of time can lead to burnout. Burnout is often identified by feelings of …
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How Motivational Interviewing Helps Create Positive Life Change During Counseling
“Everything changes and nothing stands still.” — Hereclitus of Ephesus, ancient Greek philosopherChange is one of the few things about life that never changes. No matter who …
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Family Therapy: Restoring Cohesion through Validation and Compromise
“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” — Michael J. FoxSince the beginnings of human history, the family has always been our most vital social unit. …
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Mental Health IOT: Meeting the Need for Intensive Outpatient Therapy in Indiana
Just as no two individuals are the same, so too are everyone’s behavioral health needs unique. Even when two people suffer from the same mental illness—such as depression, …
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Conscious Discipline: A Constructive Approach to Behavior Modification for Children
“Discipline is not something you do to children; it is something you develop within them.” — Dr. Becky BaileyAs many parents would attest, few things about raising …
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How IAPRSS and Cummins BHS Are Advancing Peer Recovery Support Services in Indiana
When someone is working toward recovery from substance use disorder (or SUD), support from loved ones and treatment professionals is a must. In particular, behavioral health workers …
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How Behavioral Health Providers Can Serve Our Veterans’ Mental Health Needs
Service members of the U.S. Armed Forces fill an extremely important role in our society. They are the frontline defenders of our country and all its citizens, and …
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Complicated Grief: How to Cope with Loss in Complex Situations
"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” — A. A. Milne, author of the “Winnie-the-Pooh” children’s booksFor better or worse, loss …
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