Adolescent Psychiatric Services: Youth Partial Care in New Jersey
Youth partial care in New Jersey is an intensive outpatient program that provides therapeutic services in a treatment center for adolescents who are experiencing psychiatric symptoms, have conditions that negatively impact their daily functioning, or who may need inpatient care if their emotional or behavioral issues aren't addressed. Partial care programs are well-suited to these types of circumstances, because they provide highly structured and intensive day treatment for youths with mental health disorders or emotional disturbances. Youth partial care in New Jersey is meant to stabilize an adolescent's acute symptoms, so the program is time limited. Typically, youth partial [...]
Benefits of Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training for People with Depression
Dialectical behavior therapy or DBT was originally developed to treat people with borderline personality disorder, particularly those who were chronically suicidal. However, mental health experts are now finding that DBT skills training can be used in outpatient psychiatric care to address symptoms of depression as well as many other mental illnesses. What is dialectical behavior therapy? Dialectical behavior therapy is a modified form of cognitive behavioral therapy developed by Dr. Marsha Linehan that focuses on "accepting" uncomfortable and unhealthy behaviors and thoughts instead of struggling against them. The idea behind it is that once such a behavior is validated, changing [...]
