We offer a holistic and integrated approach to healthcare that incorporates psychosocial, nutrition, and physical components of wellness.
Mental and behavioral health are important parts of overall health and wellness. Mental health includes emotional, psychological, and social factors affecting thinking, feelings, and actions. In comparison, behavioral health encompasses habits and describes how choices affect physical, spiritual, and mental well-being.
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Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood. However, poor mental health and mental illness are not the same. For example, a person can experience poor mental health and not be diagnosed with a mental illness. Likewise, a person diagnosed with a mental illness can experience periods of physical, mental, and social well-being.
Mental and physical health are equally important components of overall health. For instance, depression increases the risk of many physical health problems, particularly long-lasting conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and stroke (CDC, 2021). Similarly, chronic conditions can increase the risk of mental illness.
Mental health changes over time, depending on many factors. Changes can occur when life demands exceed resources and coping abilities. For example, mental health changes may happen when working long hours, caring for a relative, or experiencing economic hardship.
Therapy: Many people benefit from psychotherapy—also called therapy or counseling. Most treatment lasts for a short time and focuses on thoughts‚ feelings‚ and issues in your life. In some cases, understanding past experiences can help‚ but finding ways to address what is happening now can help with coping and preparing for future challenges.
Medication Management: Medication management aims to optimize the effectiveness of medications, improving functionality by treating mental health conditions while minimizing side effects and ensuring the individual’s overall well-being..
A therapist assists with learning skills to cope with life, changing behaviors causing problems‚ and finding solutions. A therapist or counselor usually has the credentials of an LCSW, LPC, or psychologist. However, a
Psychiatric medication management refers to prescribing, monitoring, and adjusting medications to treat mental health conditions. It is a crucial aspect of mental health treatment and involves a collaborative approach to care.
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and a Psychiatrist prescribe and manage medications in addition to psychotherapy.
Some common therapy goals include:
Medication Management goals include:
Behavioral health can be understood as the behaviors that affect physical and mental health. Positive health behaviors result in behavioral adjustment, the absence of disabling symptoms, the capacity to establish constructive relationships, and coping with life's ordinary demands and stresses.
Achieving and maintaining behavioral health requires flexibility, understanding, and managing emotions, engaging in healthy behaviors, awareness of relationships with others, recognition of responses, and effectively employing strategies to deal with the demands of living.
Integrated behavioral health blends care in one setting for medical conditions and related behavioral health factors that affect health and well-being. Integrated behavioral health care, a part of holistic care, aims to facilitate high-quality health care. Providers practicing integrated behavioral health care recognize that medical and behavioral health factors are important to a person’s overall health. The advantage is better coordination and communication while working toward one set of overall health goals.
We are proud to offer a multi-faceted approach to health and wellness. Our providers are here to help you maintain, improve, or recover your physical, emotional, social, and spiritual wellbeing.
Call 911 if you’re having a mental health emergency!
Text HOME to 741–741 if you’re in emotional distress and need immediate support!
Call 988 for the National Suicide Prevention Hotline!.
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