Category Archives: Behavioral/Mental Health

Trauma-Informed Care in Residential Treatment and Rehab

Patient meeting with therapist in office.

When it comes to mental health and addiction treatment, one of the most critical shifts in recent years has been the move toward trauma-informed care. Rather than asking, “What’s wrong with you?” trauma-informed care shifts the focus to, “What happened to you?” This simple but powerful change in perspective helps providers understand that many people […]

The Link Between High-Functioning Autism and Addiction in Teens and Young Adults

April is Alcohol Awareness Month NCADD & Autism Awareness

According to the most recent estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, about 1 in 44 children have been identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, it is difficult to know how many of those people have Asperger’s Syndrome—a developmental disorder that is used to describe higher-functioning […]