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DPS Staff
Jul 1, 20225 min read
Social Anxiety? Here’s What You Need To Know And How To Deal
It is normal for people to feel nervous or self-conscious on occasion, such as when giving a speech or walking into a job interview....
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Katherine Elder, PhD, Licensed Psychologist
Jun 24, 20226 min read
How To Handle An Uncooperative Co-Parent
There's nothing pleasant about divorce, nor the process. Despite that, it's a thing that'll affect about half of all American...
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DPS Staff
Jun 17, 20221 min read
Mental Wellness Statistics 2022: Being Kind to Your Mind
The importance of mental health has never been greater. In the United States, one out of five adults suffers from a mental...
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DPS Staff
Jun 10, 20223 min read
The Drug Overdose Epidemic Affects All Communities
As a country, the overdose epidemic continues to change and worsen. It is now driven by fentanyl, fentanyl analogs, methamphetamine, and...
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DPS Staff
Jun 3, 20223 min read
The Difference Between an Addiction and a Compulsion
Addiction and compulsion are not synonymous, despite people's tendency to use the terms interchangeably. There is a significant...
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Katherine Elder, PhD, Licensed Psychologist
May 27, 20226 min read
10 Co-Parenting Communication Tips
To co-parent successfully, you need to maintain peaceful, consistent, and purposeful communication with your ex. However, when your...
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DPS Staff
May 20, 20224 min read
What Is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT?
What is a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? A type of talk therapy (psychotherapy) is known as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). During a...
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DPS Staff
May 13, 20224 min read
8 Facts and Myths About Opioid Pain Medication and Addiction
Opioids were involved in 47,600 overdose deaths in 2017 and 46,802 deaths in 2018. In 2020, overdose deaths increased significantly to...
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DPS Staff
May 6, 20224 min read
10 Ways to Observe Mental Health Awareness Month
Did you know that May is Mental Health Awareness Month? Since 1949, mental health activists and experts across the country have held this...
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DPS Staff
Apr 29, 20223 min read
What Should You Do With Your Unused Medications?
“Besides their substantial lifesaving importance, medications can also be disastrous when inappropriately taken and managed,” Ebrahim, A....
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Katherine Elder, PhD, Licensed Psychologist
Apr 22, 20224 min read
How to Co-Parent Successfully
Co-parenting successfully is a loaded topic. There are so many opinions, intentions, and dynamics. It is hard to keep co-parenting on...
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DPS Staff
Apr 15, 20224 min read
The Differences Between Illicit and Pharmaceutical Fentanyl
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid more potent than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine, notes the CDC. In the U.S., it contributes...
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DPS Staff
Apr 8, 20224 min read
What's The Difference Between Anxiety and Depression?
These are two of the most common mental health problems, but they can have different effects on individuals. Below is a brief description...
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DPS Staff
Apr 1, 20226 min read
16 Simple and Effective Ways to Cope and Relieve Your Stress
Every April since 1992, Stress Awareness Month has been observed. Finding healthy ways to cope with our stress and get through these...
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Katherine Elder, PhD, Licensed Psychologist
Mar 25, 20224 min read
5 Signs of a Healthy, Effective Co-Parenting Relationship
No matter the status of your relationship with the other parent of your child (married, dating, separated, or divorced) your child will...
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DPS Staff
Mar 18, 20225 min read
9 Reasons To Give Therapy a Try
A number of misconceptions exist about talking to mental health professionals. In fact, there’s a stigma that talking about your emotions...
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DPS Staff
Mar 11, 20224 min read
The Opioid Epidemic: How to Protect Your Family
An opioid is a drug derived from the opium extracted from poppies or a synthetic version of it. Various types of opioids exist, such as...
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DPS Staff
Mar 4, 20225 min read
How Do I Ask For Time Off From Work To Go To Therapy?
The idea of calling off work for being sick can be frustrating since it’s often frowned upon, or even not permitted, in our current work...
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Katherine Elder, PhD, Licensed Psychologist
Feb 25, 20228 min read
How to Set Co-Parenting Boundaries With Your Ex
As stated by Tara S. Peris & Robert E. Emery in Redefining the Parent-Child Relationship Following Divorce: Examining the Risk for...
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DPS Staff
Feb 18, 20224 min read
How Does the Opioid Crisis Affect Public Health?
In 2016, Vivek Murthy, US Surgeon General, recommended that the country needs to start treating addiction more effectively, “Not as a...
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