Mental Health First Aid
Mental Health First Aid is a 12-hour training course designed to give members of the public key skills to help someone who is developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health crisis. More...

Community Training Events
This training will first focus on answering some of the questions related to adolescents that self-abuse: Who is using this behavior, why this method, what results are they looking for, are these individuals suicidal and what the current trends are. Then we will look at what treatment modality is currently showing some success at treating the self injurious adolescent. More...

National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
The National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare's annual conference is "Simply the best, better than all the rest." More...

How Drugs Affect The Brain
Learn about the basic mechanisms by which drugs and alcohol affect the brain and nervous system More...

Stress Management Techniques
Though life is often unavoidably difficult, there are effective ways to manage how much we become affected by stress. We'll explore some stress management methods in this article, but first, we'll start by defining what stress is. More...

Study Offers Hope for Faster-Acting Antidepressant
New research from the National Institute of Mental Health gives 15 million people suffering with depression hope for a future faster-acting antidepressant. The medication ketamine begins to take effect on the brain cells involved in depression within hours, researchers report. More...

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Modern cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) was developed independently by two separate individuals: Aaron Beck, a psychiatrist, and Albert Ellis, a clinical psychologist. More...