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Mental Health Awareness and Intellectual and Developmental Disability (IDD)

Posted on: May 18, 2020 | Julia Hood, Ph.D., BCBA, NCSP

May is Mental Health Awareness month and the goal of recognizing this month is to increase awareness around various mental health needs, reduce stigma around mental health, and inc...

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Mood Disorders and Mental Health Awareness

Posted on: May 11, 2020 | Julie Rael, LCSW, CCO Valley Behavioral Health

In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, I would like to continue the discussion around mental health awareness and highlight the various mental and behavioral health needs that ...

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Mental Health Awareness Month

Posted on: May 5, 2020 | Julie Rael, LCSW, CCO Valley Behavioral Health

Every year in May, Valley Behavioral Health and other similar organizations across the nation recognize the month of May as Mental Health Awareness Month. Mental Health Awareness M...

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Technology and Its Impact on Behavioral Health

Posted on: April 23, 2020 | Julie Rael, LCSW, CCO Valley Behavioral Health

Back in graduate school, when I was studying to be a therapist, if someone would have described the various ways that we would be using technology in the future to address and ...

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Heroes Working on the Front Line

Posted on: April 16, 2020 | Julie Rael, LCSW, CCO Valley Behavioral Health

Every now and then, we are all faced with difficult challenges that test our mental endurance and ability to cope. We may resist and struggle with these challenges in the beginning...

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Addiction Disorder: Is Substance Abuse a Mental Disorder

Posted on: March 13, 2020 | Dr. Todd Thatcher, DO, CMO

Words matter. In the discussion of what it means to be addicted to substances, the way it is described and defined has huge implications for the way addiction is treated. Socie...

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