by Julie Canterbury | Dec 28, 2020 | MENTAL HEALTH
The Trauma Brain First! What happens to the brain when there is a perceived threat of danger? Resick, Monson, and Chard (2017) describe that our “prefrontal cortex is the thinking center of the brain.” Then there is the amygdala, which “triggers strong emotions and...
by Julie Canterbury | Dec 28, 2020 | MENTAL HEALTH
Repressing vs. Expressing Our Feelings Are you one of those people who knows and says what they are feeling when bothered, blue, irritated, giddy or angry? Or are you the type, like many I’ve known, who tends to go blank when someone asks you, “How does that make you...
by Julie Canterbury | Dec 28, 2020 | MENTAL HEALTH
Developed in the 1980s by Dr. Marsha Linehan, a psychology researcher at the University of Washington, dialectical behavior therapy is a modified form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) originally created to treat borderline personality disorder and later extended...
by Julie Canterbury | Dec 28, 2020 | MENTAL HEALTH
Psychological assessment is a process of testing that uses a combination of techniques to help arrive at some hypotheses about a person and their behavior, personality, and capabilities. MCS Psychiatric Clinician, Michael Delfippo works with children, adolescents, and...
by Julie Canterbury | Nov 10, 2020 | MENTAL HEALTH
WE ARE ALL AFFECTED BY COVID-19 The Kaiser Family Foundation health tracking survey (2020) indicated that the COVID-19 pandemic is increasingly taking an emotional toll, with a majority of U.S. adults (72 percent) saying that worry and stress related to coronavirus...
