Mental Health

Most people think of treating the physical body when thinking of medical treatment. However, the safety of the physical body as well as mental state of individuals depends on their mental health. The following services have a high relevance for mental health services and drug addiction therapy.

Professional service: Drug Addiction Rehabilitation provides resources for those interested in dealing with addictive behaviors, searching for a drug rehab center , or finding a drug and alcohol rehab and treatment center .

Why important: Addictive behaviors can interfere with one’s life and health, leading to job loss, poor health, and mental instability. Knowing what drug treatment options exist and the trends in addiction rehabilitation can empower those needing help.

Additional information: Drug Addiction Rehabilitation provides additional information such as detailing the types of treatment, the models of addiction, drug information, family interventions, and types of assessment.

Professional service: Psychotherapy, or any form of communication between a therapist and a patient involving a relationship between the two to remedy the patient’s mental disturbance.

Why important: Pyschotherapy , including behavioral, cognitive, and cognitive behavioral therapies serve as practically-oriented, individualized treatments for mental illness. Other applications include personality disorders, neuroses, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, specific phobias, and sexual disorders.

Additional information: The three most common types of psychotherapy include individual, group, and pharmacological (drug) psychotherapy. In these therapy types, additional subgroups or sub classifications also exist.

Professional service: The Capitol Hill Center for Individiual and Family Therapy, P.L.L.C. , a private practice of licensed therapists, serves individuals, families, adults, children, adolescents, couples, and groups.

Why important: The Capitol Hill Center’s therapists utilize their broad base of skills and theoretical orientations to serve a diverse community. Clinical social workers and psychologists trained in psychodynamic, psychoanalytic, Jungian, and family systems approaches provide appropriate care to their patients.

Additional information: The child treatment issues addressed by the group include learning problems, behavior problems, childhood drepression, eating/sleeping problems, abuse, trauma, foster care, and adoption. Other issues addressed include: anxiety, family problems, parenting, couples issues, mid-life crisis, disrupted relationships, bereavement, sexuality, adoption, addictions, abuse, trauma, eating disorders, coping with health problems, somatization, dissociative disorders, and chronic mental illness.