Preventing teen prescription misuse
Parents are always looking for hidden dangers in their teens’ lives, but parental radar can easily miss prescription drug misuse
Guide to Cyberbullying Laws
Bullying used to be confined to school or other areas where students gathered in person, but the invention of cell phones and the Internet have made it easier for bullying to happen at all hours of the day and in any location.
No Reason to Lose Sleep
By Daniel Champer, LCPC – Intermountain Clinical Director Deadened eyes stare. Pasty skin shimmers. Colorless tongues drool. Listless arms dangle. Guttural sounds emit. Rancid odors waft. Zombies? Not likely. There are many more believable explanations for all of these ghastly signs. Would you care to guess along with me? Teenagers? Parents of newborns? New night …
What Children Really Need
By Kelly Ackerman, LCPC For just a moment, close your eyes and let your mind wander back to childhood. What is it you remember growing up with the family you had? Stay there for as long as it takes to really identify what feeling is deeply rooted in your growing up: happy, sad, angry, afraid, …
Warning Signs of Substance Use and How to Address Substance Use With Your Child
By Kendall Small, LAC, Florence Crittenton There are many concerns with raising children in a technology heavy era, one concern being potential substance use. Symptoms of substance use can be difficult to recognize due to the commonality of behaviors that areassociated with being a teen such as mood swings, sleeping more than normal, and breaking …
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Who Should You Trust With Your Mental Health?
By Daniel Champer, LCPC – Intermountain Clinical Director When you have a headache, you can take ibuprofen to feel better regardless of the brand. This is because ibuprofen must follow a chemical manufacturing standard allowing it to be called ibuprofen. Unfortunately, psychotherapy (therapy) is not ibuprofen. While there are standards of care that accompany every …
The Complete Download on Screen Addiction
By Katie Harlow, LCSW – Intermountain Clinical Director The truth is, screens play a part in shaping our children’s lives at home and at school, and they will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. While screens have benefits (access to greater global knowledge and educational resources being shared in real-time, just to name …
Prevention Open House in Dawson County
In October of 2019 Eastern Montana Community Mental Health Center got the opportunity to open an extension of their offices in Glendive, Montana. This allowed for myself, the Block Grant Prevention Specialist and Stacey O’Tremba, the Partnership for Success Prevention Specialist, to move to the new office. With Prevention moving to the new location, we …
Montana DPHHS Receives National Award at CADCA
Montana’s prevention program was taken to the next level in 2019 by getting connected and trained to maximize the effectiveness of their prevention efforts across the state. Through available funds from the Strategic Opioid Response grant, Montana kicked off the beginning of the year by having 19 prevention leaders attend the 2019 Forum. Training and …