Mind On Mental Health
The Mind On Mental Health Podcast explores a variety of mental health and substance use related topics in under thirty minutes. Topics such as how to utilize positive coping skills, manage triggers and how to change your thought process are discussed. Each podcast features interviews with therapists and psychiatrists from Penn Medicine - Princeton House Behavioral Health in Central New Jersey.
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17 hours ago
17 hours ago
With a combined 45 years working in mental health and addictions treatment, host Andy Dean and guest Ken Pecoraro, LCSW, LCADC have helped thousands of family members to engage loved ones with addictions in treatment. While there are no easy answers, Ken and Andy share tips on how to support a loved one in finding or staying in treatment.
Video: Practical Strategies for Engaging Clients in Substance Use Treatment
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Tuesday Mar 18, 2025
Tuesday Mar 18, 2025
The disease model of addiction is a framework that views addiction as a chronic, relapsing brain disease. It posits that addiction is caused by changes in brain chemistry and neurobiology that make it difficult for individuals to control their substance use behavior. Harm reduction is a newer treatment modality that focuses on the person with the addiction making incremental changes to reach a goal they set. How do these two models co-exist? Host Andy Dean speaks with Ken Pecoraro, LCSW, LCADC, CCS a longtime therapist and educator with CPC Integrated Health in Monmouth County, NJ.
Video: Practical Strategies for Engaging Clients in Substance Use Treatment
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Wednesday Nov 20, 2024
Wednesday Nov 20, 2024
When there just aren’t words to express the feelings. When you don’t even know what’s bothering you. When you are open to a new experience. These are all examples of when art therapy may help. As Andy Dean and art therapist Jenna Pattison discuss, art therapy lets you keep your defenses and still make progress toward healing.
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Wednesday Nov 13, 2024
Wednesday Nov 13, 2024
What does it take to be an art therapist? What’s the difference between an art teacher helping you learn the craft and an art therapist who is helping you to consider what’s under the surface of your art? Andy Dean and Jenna Pattison dive deep into art therapy this week. Join them.
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