A mental health counselor is a trained professional that counsels families, individuals, groups and couples to promote optimal mental health and well-being. After earning a master’s degree in mental health counseling, most people choose to get licensed or certified in a specialty such as: Educational, career and school counseling; Rehabilitation counseling; Substance abuse counseling; Marriage [...]
Everybody wants to be good at what they you. Better yet, everybody wants and needs to prove to themselves that they are better than everybody else. At least most of us feel that way. Don’t you? We want to be more intelligent, wiser, smarter, a quick thinker, and brainier. But what if you were born [...]
Now in its updated Fourth Edition, this popular text is designed for undergraduate nursing programs that teach a shortened or integrated psychiatric-mental health core course. The book presents sound nursing theory, therapeutic modalities, and clinical applications for the major DSM-IV-TR disorders across the treatment continuum, from hospital to home setting. The text uses the nursing [...]
Be My Friend – www.myspace.com Nutrition by Natalie Nutrition and Your Mental Health What does nutrition have to do with mental health? You might be surprised to find out the truth behind what happens when a person has a nutritional deficiency. Nutritional deficiencies can cause all sorts of psychiatric symptoms including apathy, low energy, irritability, [...]
Always trying to learn whatever I can about panic attacks, and always thinking outside of the box, I came upon some interesting information regarding the potential role of prenatal and perinatal happenings in the generation of panic. It’s pretty heady stuff, and I wanted to share it with you. First of all, let’s get some terminology [...]
Author is in private practice in Oklahoma City, OK. Textbook of essential information about psychiatric nursing. For students. Includes highlighted patient education boxes and a chapter on community mental health nursing. Author wrote the Brandon/Hill title: Psychiatric/ Mental Health Nursing: Concepts of Care, c1996. Softcover. DNLM: Psychiatric Nursing–methods. –This text refers to an out of [...]