iHope Program for Early Onset of Psychosis

iHope Program for Early Onset of Psychosis

Four Rivers Behavioral Health has a new program to treat adolescents and young adults with early-onset psychosis. The iHope Program is designed to work with clients to develop an individualized program for treatment of early-onset psychosis in youth. Psychosis most...
Understanding Disorganized Thinking (Speech)

Understanding Disorganized Thinking (Speech)

Hallucinations are perception-like experiences that occur without an external stimulus. They are vivid and clear, with the full force and impact of normal perceptions, and not under voluntary control. They may occur in any sensory modality, but auditory hallucinations...
Understanding Delusions

Understanding Delusions

Delusions are fixed beliefs that are not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence. Their content may include a variety of themes: persecutory referential somatic religious grandiose Persecutory delusions: the belief that one is going to be harmed, harassed,...
Ways to Fight the Winter Blues

Ways to Fight the Winter Blues

Everyone goes through it. It gets cold and gloomy outside and it brings you down. The wintertime blues are a real thing called seasonal affective disorder (SAD). Symptoms include decreased concentration, increased appetite, weight gain, social withdrawal, moodiness,...