Year: 2013

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Year: 2013

Outdoor Therapy Can Help Troubled Teens Break Vicious Cycle

Articles>Addiction Treatment

Outdoor therapy, also known as wilderness or adventure therapy, is a form of psychotherapy that’s used to treat individuals who suffer from mental or emotional issues such as post-traumatic stress…

Case Management Approach at The Ranch’s Piney Lodge Detox Center Earns Accolades From Local Addiction Treatment Providers

Articles>News

The Ranch’s case management approach, which is based on close coordination with other treatment professionals before, during and after treatment, earns praise of local addiction and mental health treatment providers.

An Interview with Christine Bates, MA, Therapist

Staff Stories

By Meghan Vivo, recovery is full of enemies: drugs and alcohol, peer pressure, stress, and so on. But sometimes the biggest obstacle isn’t an outside force at all, but rather…

An Interview with Lauren Herman, Primary Therapist

Staff Stories

Growing up in Ohio, Lauren Herman had plans to become an elementary school teacher. She moved to Nashville to earn her master’s degree from Vanderbilt, but quickly discovered that her…

New Study Shows Reactivity to CO2 Could Predict PTSD Vulnerability

Mental Health

Results from a study at the University of Texas at Austin indicate that how a person responds to inhaling carbon dioxide (CO2) could predict how well he or she will…

Children, Spouses of Military Members at Increased Risk for Mental Disorders

Articles>Mental Health

Life in the military often comes at a very high price. Mental health problems sometimes manifest as part of that price. Mental health and suicide rates among military members have…

How To Work Step Five

Articles>Recovery at The Ranch

We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. Step five is the simplest of steps to work, yet it is without…

Ending the Nightmare of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Articles>Dual Diagnosis

The symptoms of PTSD are painful and terrifying. Whether the original traumatic event was a single horrible incident (a natural disaster or a car accident, for example) or a daily…

Problem Gambling: Separating Fact From Fallacy

Articles

Addictions of all types have a secret aspect about them that can make it hard to separate the myth from the reality. Gambling addiction is no different; people have ideas…

ERP Therapy: Simultaneous Treatment for Eating Disorders, OCD

Articles>Dual Diagnosis

Roughly 11 percent to 13 percent of people who receive a diagnosis for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) also meet the diagnostic criteria for an eating disorder such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia…

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Year: 2013

Year: 2013

Outdoor Therapy Can Help Troubled Teens Break Vicious Cycle

Case Management Approach at The Ranch’s Piney Lodge Detox Center Earns Accolades From Local Addiction Treatment Providers

An Interview with Christine Bates, MA, Therapist

An Interview with Lauren Herman, Primary Therapist

New Study Shows Reactivity to CO2 Could Predict PTSD Vulnerability

Children, Spouses of Military Members at Increased Risk for Mental Disorders

How To Work Step Five

Ending the Nightmare of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Problem Gambling: Separating Fact From Fallacy

ERP Therapy: Simultaneous Treatment for Eating Disorders, OCD

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Year: 2013

Year: 2013

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