Minneapolis St. Paul Mental Health Blog

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Minneapolis Mental Health | treating Substance Use Disorders

Mental health Minneapolise | Clinicians were urged to combine pharmacologic treatments with counseling programs when treating substance use disorders (SUDs).

Many practitioners believe in using only one type of treatment, but that is a mistake, said Charles O’Brien, MD, PhD, Kenneth E. Appel Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Treatment Research Center in Philadelphia.

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Understanding children and their environment | Mental Health for Children

Childhood experiences, both positive and negative, have a tremendous impact on future violence victimization and perpetration,

and lifelong health and opportunity. As such, early experiences are an important public health issue. Much of the foundational research in this area has been referred to as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).

ACEs include physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, living with an alcohol or drug abuser, domestic violence, and emotional and physical neglect.

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Childrens Mental Health | New Crisis Response Website

Childrens Mental Health | New Children’s Crisis Response Website Launched.

MetrCCS is a public/private partnership in the 7-County Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area of mental health crisis response providers, parents, advocates, hospitals and third party payers. They have just re-launched an important website to help people find their local mental health crisis services and resources – in 8 languages. www.childcrisisresponsemn.org

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Mental Health Celiac Disease

When should you test children for CDA? | Celiac Disease

For young children with a family history of celiac disease, anxiety, aggression, sleep problems and other behavioral issues might signal that it’s time to test for celiac, researchers say.

In the study of 3- and 4-year olds at high risk for celiac, mothers of 3-year-olds that had undiagnosed celiac reported more negative psychological symptoms in their children compared to mothers of toddlers with diagnosed celiac or of kids that didn’t have the disease.

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