ERP therapy is a behavioral therapy that gradually exposes people to situations designed to provoke a person’s obsessions in a safe environment.
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Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is sometimes called shock therapy. This may sound painful, but ECT doesn’t hurt. It’s often the safest and best treatment for severe depression. It can treat other mental disorders as well.
ECT is used to treat people who are very depressed. It’s mainly used when other treatments, such as antidepressant medications, have failed. Often, it may relieve feelings of sadness and despair in just a few days.
Before an ECT treatment, you’ll receive anesthesia to keep you pain-free. You’ll also be given medication to relax your muscles and control your heart rate. Your doctor then places electrodes on your head. You may have one above each temple (bilateral ECT). Or, you may have electrodes on one temple and on your forehead (unilateral ECT). While you are asleep, your brain is stimulated very briefly with an electric current. This causes a seizure, usually lasting less than a minute. Because you are under anesthesia, your body will not move even as your brain goes through great changes.
When done properly, ECT is quite safe. Right after the treatment, you may be confused. You may have a headache or stiff muscles. But these symptoms often go away quickly. A more serious and long-lasting side effect is memory loss. Most likely, you’ll forget events that occur close to your treatments. Sometimes, you may forget larger blocks of time.
Early Childhood Screening
Screening identifies infants/children potential health/developmental issues for health/diagnostic assessment/educational eval. Early Childhood Screening/comparable screening by school or Head Start, Child/Teen Checkups/EPSDT, health care provider is required for entrance/or within 30 days of kindergarten enrollment in MN public schools. It is offered throughout the year by local districts.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a treatment approach provided in an intensive outpatient treatment program (IOP) using a combination of individualized rehabilitative and psychotherapeutic interventions. A DBT IOP program involves individual therapy, group skills training, telephone coaching, and consultation team meetings.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive behavioral therapy is a common type of mental health counseling (psychotherapy). With cognitive behavioral therapy, you work with a mental health counselor (psychotherapist or therapist) in a structured way, attending a limited number of sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps you become aware of inaccurate or negative thinking, so you can view challenging situations more clearly and respond to them in a more effective way.
Cognitive behavioral therapy can be a very helpful tool in treating mental disorders or illnesses, such as anxiety or depression. But not everyone who benefits from cognitive behavioral therapy has a mental health condition. It can be an effective tool to help anyone learn how to better manage stressful life situations.
Cognitive behavioral therapy may be done one-on-one, or in groups with family members or with people who have similar issues.
Children’s Therapeutic Services & Support (CTSS)
Children’s Therapeutic Services and Supports (CTSS) are a set of mental health services developed to provide restorative rehabilitative interventions covered by Minnesota Health Care Programs (MHCP) to children and their families. CTSS establishes policies and practices for certification and coverage of mental health services for children who require varying therapeutic and rehabilitative levels of intervention in their homes or elsewhere in the community.
Children’s Therapeutic Services and Supports (CTSS) components may be provided only by an agency (county, tribe or non-county agency) or a school that has been certified using the provider certification process developed by DHS.
Children’s Day Treatment
Day treatment Children’s day treatment is a site-based mental health program, consisting of group psychotherapy and skills training services, intended to stabilize the child’s mental health status and develop and improve independent living and socialization skills.
Child Psychiatry
The child and adolescent psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and the treatment of disorders of thinking, feeling and/or behavior affecting children, adolescents, and their families. A child and adolescent psychiatrist offers families the advantages of a medical education, the medical traditions of professional ethics, and medical responsibility for providing comprehensive care.
The child and adolescent psychiatrist uses the knowledge of biological, psychological, and social factors in working with patients. Initially, a comprehensive diagnostic examination is performed to evaluate the current problem with attention to its physical, genetic, developmental, emotional, cognitive, educational, family, peer, and social components. The child and adolescent psychiatrist arrives at a diagnosis and diagnostic formulation which are shared with the patient and family. The child and adolescent psychiatrist then designs a treatment plan which considers all the components and discusses these recommendations with the child or adolescent and family.
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)
Assertive community treatment (ACT) is an intensive and highly integrated approach for community mental health service delivery. ACT teams serve individuals with the most serious forms of mental illness, predominantly but not exclusively the schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
Art Therapy
Art therapy is a technique rooted in the idea that creative expression can foster healing and mental well-being.