Lakeland Behavioral Health offers clinically excellent outpatient care for children and adolescents ages 8-17 who are suffering from mental health concerns like anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
At Lakeland, our intensive outpatient program is designed to help adolescents learn new skills, build self-confidence, and achieve their therapeutic goals. A young person’s customized treatment plan may include group and family therapy sessions as well as basic medical care and medication management services. We are aware of the unique needs youths might have as they go through the challenging developmental phases of adolescence. As they experience physical, emotional, and cognitive changes, adolescents can benefit from developmentally specific care. In our adolescent IOP, we deliver therapies and services in age-appropriate ways that can help young people heal and thrive. Specifically, we provide trauma-informed care and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help youths alter negative thought patterns and develop effective coping strategies.
Lakeland Behavioral Health offers clinically excellent outpatient care for children and adolescents ages 8-17 who are suffering from mental health concerns like anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
At Lakeland, our intensive outpatient program is designed to help adolescents learn new skills, build self-confidence, and achieve their therapeutic goals. A young person’s customized treatment plan may include group and family therapy sessions as well as basic medical care and medication management services. We are aware of the unique needs youths might have as they go through the challenging developmental phases of adolescence. As they experience physical, emotional, and cognitive changes, adolescents can benefit from developmentally specific care. In our adolescent IOP, we deliver therapies and services in age-appropriate ways that can help young people heal and thrive. Specifically, we provide trauma-informed care and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help youths alter negative thought patterns and develop effective coping strategies.
This program offers age-specific care that addresses the concerns a person may face in the later stages of life, such as Alzheimer’s disease, depression, dementia, and suicidal ideation.
Located in Springfield, Missouri, Lakeland Behavioral Health System offers an acute inpatient treatment program for children and adolescents ages 4-17 who are suffering from mental health and emotional concerns. During their time with us, young people can benefit from the combined experience of our mental health and medical professionals. These professionals include physicians, registered nurses, social workers, psychiatrists, therapists, and behavioral health technicians. Because adolescence is a time of significant emotional and physical change, it’s essential for a young person’s care to be developmentally appropriate. Our teams specialize in delivering age-specific treatment that can help each young patient thrive at home, in school, and in their community. Because each young person has different needs, we don’t predetermine a specific length of stay in our adolescent inpatient program. Our team evaluates each youth’s progress on a regular basis to determine how long they should continue participating in programming.
This program offers age-specific care that addresses the concerns a person may face in the later stages of life, such as Alzheimer’s disease, depression, dementia, and suicidal ideation.
Located in Springfield, Missouri, Lakeland Behavioral Health System offers an acute inpatient treatment program for children and adolescents ages 4-17 who are suffering from mental health and emotional concerns. During their time with us, young people can benefit from the combined experience of our mental health and medical professionals. These professionals include physicians, registered nurses, social workers, psychiatrists, therapists, and behavioral health technicians. Because adolescence is a time of significant emotional and physical change, it’s essential for a young person’s care to be developmentally appropriate. Our teams specialize in delivering age-specific treatment that can help each young patient thrive at home, in school, and in their community. Because each young person has different needs, we don’t predetermine a specific length of stay in our adolescent inpatient program. Our team evaluates each youth’s progress on a regular basis to determine how long they should continue participating in programming.
Online Treatment Centers
Synergy Counseling Center offers General Counseling Services for children and adults as well as Intensive Outpatient Services (IOP) for men and women ages 18 and older struggling with substance abuse and mental health. Services include psychoeducation classes on a variety of topics, group counseling, and individual counseling. We work with you to develop an individualized treatment plan to best meet your unique treatment needs and goals.
Synergy Counseling Center offers General Counseling Services for children and adults as well as Intensive Outpatient Services (IOP) for men and women ages 18 and older struggling with substance abuse and mental health. Services include psychoeducation classes on a variety of topics, group counseling, and individual counseling. We work with you to develop an individualized treatment plan to best meet your unique treatment needs and goals.
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Depression Treatment Centers
What is the goal of therapy for depression?
Therapy for depression has several major goals. One is to relieve the mental pain of depression, which distorts feeling and thinking so that sufferers cannot see beyond their current state of mind or envision feeling better. Another is to give people the mental tools to recognize and correct the kinds of distorted thinking that turn a problem into a catastrophe and lead to despair. Therapy also teaches people how to process negative emotions in constructive ways, so they have more control over their own emotional reactivity. And it helps people regain the ability to see themselves positively, the motivation to do things, and the capacity for pleasure.
What happens in therapy for depression?
Perhaps most important, no matter the type of therapy, patients form an alliance with the therapist; that connection is therapeutic in itself, plus it becomes an instrument of change. Patients learn to identify and to challenge their own erroneous beliefs and thoughts that amplify the effects of negative experiences. They learn to identify situations in which they are especially vulnerable. And they learn new patterns of thinking and behaving. They may be given “homework” assignments in which they practice their developing skills. In addition, good therapists regularly monitor patients to assess whether and how much the condition is improving.
What therapy types help with depression?
Several types of short-term therapy have been found effective, each targeting one or more areas of dysfunction. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps clients challenge their negative thoughts and beliefs, learn new behavioral strategies, and curb reactivity to distressing situations. Behavioral activation (BA) is a form of therapy often used in conjunction with CBT; it focuses on engagement in rewarding activity as a pathway to changing negative feelings and disturbed mood. Another widely used approach is interpersonal therapy (IPT), which targets the social difficulties that both give rise to and get exacerbated by depression. Therapists may combine approaches as needed.
Can therapy for depression be done online?
Studies have found that online therapy can be highly effective for treating depression, although it may be more challenging to build a good therapist-patient alliance on screen than in person—at least at first. However, online therapy can offer considerable advantages. Accessibility and convenience are tops among them. Some people actually find it easier to talk about problems online than in person. While online therapy typically limits visibility of facial expression and body gestures that give important nonverbal cues to a patient’s state of mind, it can give therapists a glimpse into a patient’s world and life, providing information that can be highly useful in guiding therapy.
How effective is therapy for depression?
Many studies show that therapy is highly effective provided that patients complete the prescribed course of therapy, commonly 16 to 20 sessions. Over the long term, it is more effective than medication and the effects are more enduring. As a result, psychotherapy has the power not just to relieve current suffering but to prevent future episodes of the disorder. Therapy reverses the dysfunction in neural circuitry that disposes individuals to a negative view of themselves, the world, and their future and they acquire coping techniques, problem-solving skills, and understanding of their own vulnerabilities that are useful over the course of a lifetime.