Behavioral Health Today

Treatment's only going to be as good as these sustaining constructs are in place to sustain it. In this episode, Dr. Graham Taylor is joined by Aaron Williams. Aaron works as the integrated care consultant and senior advisor for the National Council of Mental Wellbeing. Aaron has more than has more than 18 years of experience providing training and technical assistance in behavioral health services with an emphasis on substance use, treatment, and prevention. Aaron has written and contributed to numerous articles and reports on drugs of abuse, primary care and substance use integration. Today we're going to be talking about treating substance abuse and understanding recovery capital. Recovery capital in these constructs is universal, all of us have them to some degree in our lives are things that one can developed and build. It's truly an empowering model.

For more information about the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, please visit:https://www.thenationalcouncil.org

This episode resumes our conversation with Dr. Erin Elmore and her guest Dr. Jaimee Arnoff. In our last episode, we defined high risk behavior and the signs to look for to separate normal teen behavior to something that’s more serious and could benefit from therapy. We discussed the importance of early intervention for high-risk or at-risk teens and the first steps to welcoming youth clients into therapy and giving them a locus of control to feel comfortable and participate in therapy. We’ll resume our talk today by discussing the therapy environment, how to make it a safe space to get vulnerable, and a way to build trust.

For more information about Jaimee and BFF Therapy, please visit: https://www.bfftherapy.com

In this episode, Dr. Erin Elmore speaks with Dr. Jaimee Arnoff. Jaimee is a licensed clinical psychologist with extensive experience with both assessment and therapy, focusing on children and adolescents with internalizing disorders in multiple hospital-based settings, residential treatment centers, and community-based outpatient mental health clinics. In addition to co-founding a private therapy practice specializing in high-risk youth, for the past few years she has developed and delivered school presentations for children, parents, and school staff, as well as trainings for clinicians and other providers on Youth Mental Health and Suicide Prevention. We’re excited to have Jaimee back with us. Previously she joined us for a conversation around Pain Reprocessing Therapy, which is another one of Jaimee’s certifications. If you’re interested in hearing our conversation around that, please listen to that episode in our archive at www.triadhq.com/bht. Today our conversation will focus on Jaimee’s experience working with children and adolescents, and specifically working with high-risk teens.

For more information about Jaimee and BFF Therapy, please visit: https://www.bfftherapy.com

To feel peace and change, research shows we need two things: one is knowledge, two is an experience, a corrective experience. In this episode, Dr. Erin Elmore speaks with Jason Shiers. Jason is a Psychotherapist and Certified Transformative Coach who has been working with addictions and mental health for over 25 years. He has a personal story of addiction and mental health struggles spanning four decades both as a consumer of mental health services and as a professional. Jason is open to sharing his personal experiences so today we will hear more about his struggles and how they ultimately led to him developing an innovative approach to treating addiction and mental health issues called the Infinite Recovery Program. Together Erin and Jason discuss, the journey of change, spiritual awakening, the power of self-discovery of your true self after deconstructing beliefs. Never stop seeking.

For more information about the Infinite Recovery Project, please visit: https://www.infiniterecoveryproject.com

A child’s experience or health is interdependent with the involvement of family. But, from a child’s perspective, in the context of what their brain needs as it develops, trauma can be very subtle, more relational in nature, and that tends to be more transgenerational transmission of these traumas. The more we can understand ourselves as parents, the more we can control and have awareness into what we're doing for our kids. In this episode, Dr. Graham Taylor speaks with Dr. Amy Conrad. Amy is a pediatrician, mom, and founder of Kinder Digital Pediatric Clinic, the only digital pediatric platform that connects families with their own pediatrician from anywhere. Amy is also the podcast host of “Ask Doctor Amy”, where her goal is to empower listeners with evidence-based science with attention to nutrition, mental health, and lifestyle information to create a healthy and healthy childhood. Together Graham and Amy discuss the perspective of how intergenerational trauma shows in pediatric medicine, the impact of this trauma on children, and an encouragement for parents to improve their awareness, managing their triggers, and a vicarious healing that takes place for parents when they’re giving their children a different way to join them in childhood. It's never too late to become aware and how quickly that change happens.

For more information about Amy F. Conrad, MD, please visit: https://www.askdoctoramy.com