College mental health screenings going high-tech to help more kids
CHICAGO - Look around a waiting room at a university counseling center and you'll see students wrestling with all sorts of issues: The one who's failing because of binge drinking. Another who's...
View ArticleSoldier's best friend: Dogs boost therapy program for wounded
FORT HOOD — Annie, Ranger and nine other volunteer therapists arrived promptly for their appointment at Fort Hood’s Warrior Transition Brigade Thursday.After relieving themselves in the courtyard, they...
View ArticleCepeda: DREAM Act advocates try a different tack
The weariness first started showing as provocative comments popped up here and there on social media sites and news story feedback sections: “Just as dehumanizing as using the i-word is calling an...
View ArticlePerez children face counseling following mother's death
Family members said Maria Perez’s four children were in her Central Lubbock apartment Friday morning when her boys, ages 8 and 5, found their mother unresponsive.They thought she was asleep and...
View ArticleMan says Ore. psychiatrist told him he wasn't gay
PORTLAND, Ore. — Max Hirsh says he sensed something wasn't quite right when the psychiatrist focused on his failures with sports and teenage girls, as well as his deficient relationships with older...
View ArticleMan says Ore. psychiatrist told him he wasn't gay
PORTLAND, Ore. — Max Hirsh says he sensed something wasn't quite right when the psychiatrist focused on his failures with sports and teenage girls, as well as his deficient relationships with older...
View ArticleDear Abby: Abby sets record straight on addressing gay spouses
DEAR ABBY: I am a longtime reader. This is the first time I have ever written to you, and I’m hoping you will have an answer for me. I’d like to know the proper way to address a surviving gay spouse in...
View ArticleAnn Akin provides professional, faith-based counseling for adults,...
Ann Allison Akin, M.Ed., M.Div.eq, LPC, has been reaching out to help people in West Texas and Eastern New Mexico for 26 years.For 24 of those years, she served as a Chaplain at Covenant Health System,...
View ArticleCorrections facility changes lives
For residents at the Lubbock County Community Corrections Facility, time there is not just about serving probation — it’s about changing lives.Valerie Monteilh, director for the Court Resident...
View ArticleAnn Akin provides professional, faith-based counseling for adults,...
Ann Allison Akin, M.Ed., M.Div.eq, LPC, has been reaching out to help people in West Texas and Eastern New Mexico for 26 years.For 24 of those years, she served as a Chaplain at Covenant Health System,...
View ArticleJudge temporarily blocks California from enforcing gay 'conversion' therapy law
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked California from enforcing a first-of-its-kind law that bars licensed psychotherapists from working to change the sexual orientations of gay...
View ArticleUniversity of Houston addresses growing need for mental health services
AUSTIN — Little makes Dr. Norma Ngo, the director of Counseling and Psychological Services at the University of Houston, sadder than hearing a student say, ‘‘I never even knew you guys existed.”“Even...
View ArticleThe Ranch at Dove Tree offers innovative addiction treatment services for...
The presence of students with alcohol and drug problems on college campuses is a well-documented problem. Current estimates suggest that as many as 25 percent of all college students in the United...
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Behavioral therapy group under way A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy group has started a six-week support session for people who suffer from chronic pain. The group meets Mondays from 3:30 to 5 p.m. and...
View ArticleSan Francisco court upholds 1st ban on gay-to-straight therapy
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld the nation’s first-of-its-kind law in California prohibiting health practitioners from offering psychotherapy aimed at making gay youth...
View ArticleParents still turn to troubled-youth ranches
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — David Hall was afraid of his own son. They were getting into violent, physical fights requiring police intervention. Fearing the teen would end up in juvenile detention, Hall had...
View ArticleCognative behavioral therapy group meets at bank
A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy group has started a six-week support session for people who suffer from chronic pain. The group meets Mondays from 3:30 to 5 p.m. and Wednesdays from 5:30-7 p.m. at 6502...
View ArticleAnn Akin provides professional, faith-based counseling for adults,...
Ann Allison Akin, M.Ed., M.Div.eq, LPC, has been reaching out to help people in West Texas and Eastern New Mexico for 30 years.For 24 of those years, she served as a Chaplain at Covenant Health System,...
View ArticleCognitive Behavioral Therapy group meetings ongoing
A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy group has started a six-week support session for people who suffer from chronic pain. The group meets Mondays from 3:30-5 p.m. and Wednesdays from 5:30-7 p.m. at 6502...
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