Mental Health Depression, eating disorders, self-injury, manic depression (bi-polar), anxiety and other mental health disorders are now being diagnosed by more and more medical doctors compared to previous decades. Mental health is just now becoming an accepted term in our society and families who become more aware of their mental health history can often take advantage early in life with treatment and programs to reduce symptoms and side effects. ScottCounseling offers numerous article on mental health and the importance of keep yourself mentally fit.
Bipolar Disorder: What Is Bipolar Disorder?
According to Cleveland Department of Psychology “Bipolar disorder used to be known as manic depressive disorder. It’s a serious illness, one that can lead to risky behavior, damaged relationships and careers, even suicidal tendencies — if it’s not treated.” Bipolar disorder involves extreme changes in moods; also known as poles. These mood changes or swing...
Healthy Ways For A Parent to Respond To Stress
Be a role model for your child. During stressful times, demonstrate calm controller emotions. Be honest about how you feel, but stay calm and become solution oriented. Listen to your child. Try not to be judgmental, but reassuring. Encourage your child to ask questions, problem-solve and share solutions for the stress. Let your child know...
Chemical Health Assessment
Chemical Health Assessment & Treatment Process Children who abuse or misuse drugs or chemicals need to have a chemical assessment for proper identification of the existing problems. Contact your child’s school counselor to help you locate the closest chemical assessment agency where you live. This article will provide you other factors, terminology and conditions to...
Children’s Feelings
Counselors will share with you that one difficult communication technique that they have to employ to get a child to identify how he or she is feeling about a situation is word identification in selecting a feeling. Feeling posters with pictures of various feelings allow children to point or select a picture that identifies the...
Quick Parenting Tips: Helping a Child Build Self-Esteem
Children with positive self-esteem… Your child’s self-esteem belongs to him or her. No one can magically build your child’s self-esteem. The concept of “self-esteem” has been greatly research by child behavior specialist and child psychology experts. No matter what research study you read, the majority conclude that there is” evident that programs to foster self-esteem...
ADD Assessment: What’s in an ADD/ADHD Assessment?
What’s involved in an ADD assessment? It’s important that a parent who has a child with symptoms of attention deficit disorder go through an assessment process conducted by a trained profession. ADD is a medical diagnosis. Many school counselors or school psychologist may initiate the process by interviewing the child, parent(s) and teachers to see...
Dealing with ADD/ADHD: Treatment Options
What Treatments or Interventions Work? There are a variety of interventions that seem to lessen the severity of ADD/ADHD. Behavior modification that takes place in both the home and school has been used to help manage this disorder. Medical facilities that specialize in working with children who are ADD/ADHD can recommend a behavioral therapist who...
Dealing with ADD/ADHD: Is There A Cure For ADD/ADHD?
Is There A Cure For ADD/ADHD? Not yet. There is no known cure for ADD/ADHD. However, for many children and adult behavioral therapy, medications, schooling and parenting strategies that involve teaching children coping techniques have all proven to be successful interventions. Research seems to indicate that only one in three children who are diagnosed with...
Dealing with ADD/ADHD: Parenting A Child With Attention Deficit
Parenting a child who has attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit hyper-active disorder (ADHD) can place a lot of stress on a parent when that emotional feeling could best be utilized in a manner that is more nututring and instructional. The following ScottCounseling article will help a parent understand that they are not to...
Dealing with ADD/ADHD: What Causes ADD/ADHD?
What Causes ADD/ADHD? Medical experts believe that brain structure and function play a role in causing ADD and ADHD. The brain’s frontal lobe (located near our forehead) has often been the point of concentration by medical research teams. Through the use of MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) these teams have found that the frontal lobes...
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