Sport psychologists and Mental Health
What is Sport Psychology? According to Irene Lopez at WebMD, in simple terms, sport psychology studies how psychological factors affect athletic performance. Sport psychologists also look at how taking part in sports, exercise, and other physical activities affects...
How Do Trauma-Based Therapies Work?
Trauma-based therapy (also known as trauma-focused therapy) is an effective treatment for individuals with a history of trauma, such as those with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Trauma-focused therapies use experiential, cognitive, and behavioral techniques to...
Understanding Impulse-Control Disorders
Impulsivity refers to a tendency to respond hastily to internal or external cues. For instance, impulsive people tend to speak as soon as a thought occurs to them. Or to purchase an item immediately and spontaneously, with little internal debate about the quality,...
Dual Diagnosis: Mental Health and Addiction
According to Luna Greenstein at the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), as intuitive as the term “dual diagnosis” may seem, it actually doesn’t mean having two mental health conditions. Dual diagnosis (also referred to as a co-occurring disorder) is a term...
Recognizing and Treating Trauma in Children
Young children are particularly vulnerable to trauma. For instance, compared to other age groups, children younger than four years of age have among the highest rates of nonfatal injuries (e.g., falls, drownings, poisonings, burns). Furthermore, over half of child...
Dementia and Mental Health
According to the Mental Health Foundation (MHF), dementia is a term used to describe a range of conditions that affect the brain. It’s caused when the brain is damaged by diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, or by a series of strokes. Dementia mainly affects people over 65,...
Prolonged Grief and Its Treatment
Each year, in California alone, a quarter of a million people die. In the US as a whole, three million do. As these statistics suggest, many of us will, at some point in our lives, lose a loved one and experience grief. From normal to prolonged grief Grief refers to...
Schizophrenia – Myths and Facts
According to Stephanie Watson with WebMD, there’s a lot of incorrect information about schizophrenia. Some of it is spread by movies or TV shows. Or sometimes, people use stereotypes when talking about this mental illness. Schizophrenia is a serious mental...
Anxiety, Depression, or ADHD? Which one is it?
AHD, depression or anxiety? According to Roberto Olivardia, Ph.D., at Attitude, ADHD is often missed when it co-exists with depression or anxiety, and vice versa. On the other hand, difficulties sustaining attention can be caused by anxiety/and/or depression rather...Contact us
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