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The Dynamics of Money in Treatment: Helping Your Clients

To help our clients with money issues, we need to address our own beliefs and behavior with money. The options for financial health are expanded when money is understood not simply as negotiable currency, but as a...

 
 

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What is bipolar disorder?
Why is bipolar disorder called an illness?Everyone has ups and downs in mood-happiness, sadness, and anger are normal emotions and an essential part of everyday life. In contrast, bipolar disorder is a medical condition in which people have mood...
Medications for Bipolar Disorder
The two most important types of medication used to control the symptoms of bipolar disorder are mood stabilizers and antidepressants. Your doctor may also prescribe other medications to help with insomnia, anxiety, restlessness, or psychotic...
Educating Your Patients on Bipolar Disorder
You and your family or loved ones will benefit by learning as much as possible about how to live with bipolar disorder. Here are the most commonly asked questions about lifestyle changes: Is there anything I can do to help my disorder?Absolutely yes...
Psychotherapy and Bipolar Disorder
Psychotherapy can play an important role in reducing the stresses that can trigger manic and depressive episodes. Psychotherapy is much more likely to be helpful for depression than mania, since patients in a manic phase often have trouble retaining...
What is Dementia?
The term dementia refers to a severe loss of thinking abilities, especially memory. It occurs most often in later years and is especially frequent in those over age 85. Some memory loss is normal as we age, but dementia is not. Many of us may...
What is Agitation?
Many people with dementia experience emotional distress or behavioral changes best summed up by the term agitation. Very mild agitation may seem like a personality change in which a person acts in ways that are uncharacteristic or inappropriate for...