ASPEN STRONG PROVIDER SPOTLIGHT: ASPEN HOPE CENTER

Suicide prevention means different things to different people...
 

To some it is a class you can take, to others it means entering counseling or maybe raising awareness about mental health and spreading the word through marketing. To the Hope Center, it is all of these things and more. The Hope Center offers suicide awareness educational classes that teach about warning signs to look for, ways to approach someone you may be concerned about, and provides crucial information on how the mental health system, particularly crisis intervention, works. 

Short-term, solution focused and very intense therapy also takes place at the Hope Center. When individuals...

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Why Behavioral Therapy Is the Best Way to Treat OCD in Kids

Jerry Bubrick, PhD

We were pleased to see the results of a recent study on the effectiveness of treatments for children with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Pleased in part because there are so few studies involving children, but also because researchers were testing not just medication for OCD, but cognitive behavioral therapy.
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New CE Course for Helping Professionals

Unbreakable You: 
Skills for Building Resilience. 
Learn Research-Backed Skills to Decrease Distress, Anxiety, Depression & PTSD

Support group for parents or caregivers of children who have threatened, or have made attempts to take their life by suicide.  

MIND SPRINGS HEALTH: See a Media Post That Worries You?

SOMETIMES IT TAKES A FRIEND TO GET SOMEONE THE HELP THEY NEED. 
Judging behavior based on online posts alone is challenging but there are often warning signs or indication of intent to self-harm or complete suicide

• Does this person post content about depression or feelings of hopelessness?

• Is this person posting comments about death or feelings that death is the only option?

• Is he or she posting comments about having an empted suicide in the past?

• Is he or she describing or posting photos of self-harm or identifying him or herself as suicidal?

• Has his or her mood and the content of his or her posts changed recently?

If you see these things happening please report the user to the social media platform and encourage them to contact the / / mental health hotlines  

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