To improve the quality of life to the persons served by offering guidance and treatment in the following areas:
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What is Mental Illness?
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What is Treatment?
Treatment is provided in a confidential and private manner within a comfortable atmosphere. The intent is to provide skills, information, education, coping mechanisms and understanding to individual personal problems. No one is turned away due to inability to pay.
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Mental illnesses are physiological conditions. There are many factors correlated with the development of mental illnesses. Genetics, exposure to stress, trauma and grief as well as living under corrupt, abusive and/or deplorable conditions are factors that can contribute to mental illnesses. They are disruptive to a person’s life in many aspects, including thinking processes, feelings, moods, social interactions, interpersonal communication, and daily functioning. People suffering from mental illnesses have a lower threshold for coping with everyday stressors. Basic tasks such as sleeping, eating, getting out of bed, talking with someone and going to the store can become challenging events.
Treatment comes in many forms such as individual, couples, family and groups. It is an interactive process between the therapist and client. An initial clinical assessment is used to determine what life stressor, mental illness, addiction or situation is problematic.