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How to Help Children Cope with Traumatic Events

Posted on: June 8, 2020 | Julia Hood, Ph.D., BCBA, NCSP

In the past few months in Utah, we have experienced a pandemic, earthquakes, city-wide curfews, protests, and riots.  It can be difficult to know how your child is understandi...

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Psychosis and Mental Health Awareness

Posted on: May 26, 2020 | Julie Rael, LCSW, CCO Valley Behavioral Health

  This blog concludes the May Mental Health Awareness blog series. During the past four weeks this blog series has explored grief and loss, mood disorders, and anxiety....

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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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