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Integrating Behavioral Health Care into the Primary Health Care Settings   Current State of Behavioral Health Care and Its Separation from Primary Health Care The landscape of behavioral health care currently operates largely in isolation from primary health care....

Understanding Somatic Symptom Disorder: Diagnosis, Symptoms, and Treatment Everyone, at some point in their lives, experiences worry about their health. New or strange symptoms increase this anxiety for everyone, but this worry takes over and consumes people with...

Schizophrenia: What to Know About This Mental Illness Schizophrenia: Definition, Symptoms, and Treatments Schizophrenia is a serious mental health condition that affects the way a person thinks and communicates with the outside world. A person with the condition can...

Oppositional Defiant Disorder: Diagnosis, Symptoms, and Treatment Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) is more than just kids “acting out” during a rebellious phase. This disorder, classified in the disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders category according...

Antisocial Personality Disorder: Symptoms, Causes and Treatment What is Antisocial Personality Disorder? Antisocial personality disorder is a mental health disorder consisting of many behaviors and patterns that cause distress and disruption for the affected patient...

Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Diagnosis, Signs, Causes, and Treatment Selfish. Arrogant. Insensitive. People frequently use these characteristics and other similar traits to describe individuals with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). In general,...

Histrionic Personality Disorder: Definition, Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment  Overview Dramatic, attention-seeking, highly emotional -- by definition, histrionic personality disorder occurs when a person displays these and other behavioral patterns that cause them...

Generalized Anxiety DisorderCE Course Preview Generalized anxiety disorder is the most common mental illness in the United States, affecting more than 6.8 million Americans (ADAA, 2021). Less than half of those affected seek treatment for this disorder, which...

Preventing Suicide through Risk Assessment and Awareness The suicide rate in the United States increased 35% over twenty years from 1999-2018. Individuals taking their own lives remains a significant concern and leading cause of death for Americans. To combat this...