MIDDLETOWN — A female postal carrier who was mauled by a dog along her route suffered such significant post-traumatic stress that the attack left her physically and emotionally incapacitated for more than two years. She had three operations to repair her stomach and nearly died from her injuries. The woman tried cognitive and exposure therapy to no avail. It wasn’t …
Psychological and Emotional Problems of the Modern Era
Modernity has gifted us with all sorts of amazing inventions, from sliced bread to self-driving cars, and the wonders of the internet and indoor plumbing. Unfortunately, the particular combination of all these modern wonders has also resulted in some fairly frightening trends in psychological and emotional problems. The most common psychological and emotional problems facing the world today are ones …
Walden Behavioral Care reports aggregate quality assessment information on patients treated with ART.
“Walden Behavioral Care is a proprietary behavioral health care company committed to providing comfortable and compassionate environments of care and innovative treatment services for individuals living with eating disorders, psychiatric disorders and other co-morbid issues. Clinics are located in MA, CT and GA. As part of Walden’s continuous quality evaluation and improvement process, and not part of any type of …
Accelerated Resolution Therapy: Re-Coding Fear Memories as Safe
To date, no single cognitive therapeutic approach has shown to be optimal in terms of delivery time, completion rates and lessening symptoms for adults with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and comorbid symptoms of depression. Currently, a brief exposure-based psychotherapy or Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) has shown promising results in treating those with scene-focused PTSD and major depressive disorder (MDD). Incomplete …
How to Deal with the Effects of Sexual Trauma
The statistics regarding sexual trauma in the U.S. are staggering. Most recent reports cite that while the rate of sexual assault has fallen since 1993, 1.6 people in 1000 will experience sexual assault in their lifetime. In one year: 321,500 people age 12 and older are assaulted or raped each year 18,900 military personnel experienced unwanted sexual contact 60,000 children …