Substance Use Disorders: Frequency and Treatment for People with Serious Mental Illness

• By: Jeridith Lord, LCPC, BCBA Endicott College
• July 14th, 2023
• behavioral health equity, comorbidities, dual diagnoses, integrated care, serious mental illness, stigma, substance use disorders, Summer 2023 Issue, trauma, treatment options
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Throughout its history, America has attempted to punish substance users as a means to encourage their abstinence. These attempts have included imprisonment, fines, and forced rehabilitation programs, often sentenced at a higher rate to people of color (Volkow, 2023). Punishments like these often...

Applied Behavior Analysis as a Treatment for Survivors of Trauma

• By: Jeridith Lord, LCPC, BCBA Endicott College
• January 17th, 2023
• ABA, applied behavior analysis, cbt, cognitive behavioral therapy, crisis management, EMDR, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, trauma, trauma survivor, trauma-informed care, Winter 2023 Issue
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Understanding trauma has become a major focus for many different fields of mental health, with each proposing a different strategy for addressing traumatic symptoms and core issues. This has not been an easy feat for several reasons. First, the current reports of trauma are only as accurate as the...