Achieving your God-given potential depends on healthy and conducive behaviors
Having a behavioral health disorder is certainly no walk in the park. Without intervention, it can easily turn out for the worse, affecting not only your interaction and engagement with your family, loved one, and friends, but most importantly, with yourself.
Fortunately, treatment and recovery are possible when you seek help. At Tandem Psychiatric and Family Practice, PLLC, we offer patients with therapeutic interventions that help them modify their behavior for the better and in a way that reinforces the positive ones and discourages the negative ones.
Here are the behavioral health disorders and conditions we can work with:
Addiction
An addiction is a complex but treatable brain disease that is characterized by compulsive behaviors that result in harmful consequences.
Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD)
An alcohol use disorder is a generally long-term brain condition that is characterized by an uncontrollable urge to drink regardless of its negative effects on your career, relationships, and health.
Anger Management Issues or Anger Issues
Anger management issues are issues that are caused by one’s inability to control or handle one’s anger that leads to strained personal relationships and regrettable decisions. Signs of anger management issues include hurting others verbally or physically, noticing small or petty things that make you angry, and feeling the emotion to be out of your control.
Chronic Impulsivity
Chronic impulsivity is a continuous and severe lack of self-control that is characterized by a constant struggle with impulse control. It can take many forms such as difficulty controlling immediate reactions to trouble concentrating.
Codependency
Codependency describes the relationship between the ‘giver’ and a ‘taker’ and is characterized by overreliance on a partner or significant other, a friend, or a loved one that results in one’s identity is contingent on the other party.
Dual Diagnosis
A dual diagnosis refers to a diagnosis that has both mental health problems and substance misuse occurring at the same time. This requires a multi-faceted intervention as having such a diagnosis usually results in poorer medication compliance, increased aggression, and poor self-care.
Intellectual Disability
An intellectual disability is a disability that affects both intellectual functioning such as problem-solving and making judgments and adaptive functioning such as communication. Common examples of this disability are Down syndrome and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD).
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder that is characterized by uncontrollable and unwanted thoughts that are manifested in ritualized, repetitive behaviors and actions.
Oppositional Defiance Disorder (ODD)
Oppositional Defiance Disorder (ODD) is a behavioral disorder that is characterized by a pattern of angry or cranky moods, combative behavior, and vindictiveness towards people of authority. While it is more common in children, some adults may also have the disorder.
Substance Use Disorder (SUD)
Substance Use Disorder (SUD) is a complex condition that negatively affects a person’s brain and behavior that leads to an uncontrollable use of a drug or medication despite its harmful effects on one’s health, relationships, and career.
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Autism Spectrum Disorder is a developmental disability that is characterized by significant social and behavioral challenges as well as issues with communication despite the harmful consequences to one’s health and well-being.
And other behavioral issues
Treatment Approaches
Here are the types of therapy we specialize in:
- Christian Counseling
- Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- Compassion Focused
- Culturally Sensitive
- Interpersonal
- Intervention
- Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Person-Centered
- Positive Psychology
Armed with Hope for Your Healing and Recovery
Take back control of your life and live it on your own terms, seek the help you need today.
Get started by undergoing mental and behavioral health testing and evaluation. Kindly schedule an appointment with one of our professionals here. To know more about our services and rates, don’t hesitate to send us a message here.
