Bridges To Recovery Now Offers Psychological Testing
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Pacific Palisades, California June 24, 2012 Health News
(PRLEAP.COM) At Bridges to Recovery, a psychiatric residential treatment clinic with three locations in Southern California, we now offer psychological testing as part of our ongoing efforts to identify and treat the underlying causes of our patients' anxiety and depression. Psychological testing is an invaluable tool for a depression treatment clinic, giving patients and their medical team valuable insight in the journey toward healing.Our assessment is comprehensive, lasting several days and examining a number of factors, including a patient's academic ability and cognitive skills, emotional health and social functioning. Whether a patient suffers from OCD, phobias, generalized anxiety, or some other mental health issue, psychological testing can result in a far more efficacious treatment plan, and this commitment to testing is what makes Bridges to Recovery one of the top choices for anxiety treatment California. This approach is in keeping with our emphasis on addressing the causes of chemical dependency rather than merely treating the dependency itself.
Based on the unique needs of each patient as determined from psychological testing, the treatment team can then go on to craft an optimal plan leading to recovery. We treat the whole patient, not just the mental health issue, so we will examine a patient's nutritional and physical fitness as well as making an assessment of the risk of self-harm or injury to others.
Our psychological testing is standardized and carried out by a committed and fully licensed staff, and the Department of Social Services and Department of Mental Health have both licensed Bridges to Recovery. Patients looking for an OCD residential treatment center in LA will find Bridges to Recovery addresses the root of their obsessive thought patterns. For phobia residential treatment California, Bridges to Recovery makes use of its psychological testing to uncover the impulses behind the development of phobias.
No patient will leave Bridges to Recovery without a road map that includes new skills for addressing future mental health issues and goals for continued improvement. Through our psychological testing, patients may find for the first time that difficulties which have plagued them for a lifetime can be managed. Whether the primary difficulties are academic, cognitive, social, emotional, or expressed in some other manner, examining the root causes will result in patients' transitioning to a healthier and happier life.
Psychological testing is just one of the approaches that our world-class clinic offers. Combined with such treatments as art therapy, yoga, psychotherapy, somatic therapy, educational and vocational counseling and more, this testing can ensure that patients feel confident they are receiving the most comprehensive selection of therapies available.