Treatment Archives - Heather Hayes & Associates https://heatherhayes.com/tag/treatment/ Interventions & Treatment Consulting Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:03:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://heatherhayes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-HH_logo-32x32.png Treatment Archives - Heather Hayes & Associates https://heatherhayes.com/tag/treatment/ 32 32 From Silos to Synergy: Building Trauma Responsive Ecosystems in the Age of AI https://heatherhayes.com/from-silos-to-synergy-building-trauma-responsive-ecosystems-in-the-age-of-ai/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:03:07 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=7772 Behavioral health clinicians are practicing in a moment of extraordinary complexity. Severe mental illness is rising, and substance use disorders continue to evolve in potency and presentation. Families are overwhelmed. Providers are burned out, and social determinants of health widen disparities. Artificial intelligence is entering care faster than ethical frameworks are solidifying. Yet our systems […]

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]]> Why Families Often Miss the Early Signs of Psychosis https://heatherhayes.com/why-families-often-miss-the-early-signs-of-psychosis/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=7748 Understanding the Quiet Changes that Come Before a Crisis Psychosis rarely begins with hallucinations or delusions. By the time someone is hearing voices, convinced others are watching them, or unable to distinguish reality from imagination, the brain has already been struggling for some time. What most families do not realize is that psychosis usually develops […]

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]]> Nitrous Oxide Abuse in America: Rising Deaths, Neurological Damage, and the Danger of Large Tanks https://heatherhayes.com/nitrous-oxide-abuse-in-america-rising-deaths-neurological-damage-and-the-danger-of-large-tanks/ Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:29:11 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=7465 Nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas, has long been used safely in medical and dental settings. In recent years, however, recreational nitrous oxide use in the United States has increased, particularly outside of clinical supervision. What was once associated primarily with small canisters known as whippits has evolved into a more concerning trend: the […]

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]]> Why Multidisciplinary Approaches Matter in Complex Mental Health Cases https://heatherhayes.com/why-multidisciplinary-approaches-matter-in-complex-mental-health-cases/ Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:40:12 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=7299 Every individual’s path to healing is different, particularly when complex mental health challenges are involved. What appears to be anxiety or depression may be layered with trauma, dysfunctional family dynamics, medical conditions, substance use, and ongoing social stressors. While two people can share the same diagnosis, they can have entirely different histories, triggers, coping strategies, […]

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]]> What’s Actually Happening When Some People Appear “Resistant” to Treatment https://heatherhayes.com/whats-actually-happening-when-some-people-appear-resistant-to-treatment/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:00:00 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=7294 When a loved one seems to fight every suggestion, skip appointments, or sabotage their own progress, it is easy to feel hopeless. Clinicians may label it non‑compliance, and families may call it denial, stubbornness, or lack of willpower, but what looks like resistance from the outside is almost always a complex, protective response on the […]

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]]> When Help Becomes a Hustle: Healthcare Fraud in Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Treatment https://heatherhayes.com/when-help-becomes-a-hustle-healthcare-fraud-in-mental-health-and-substance-use-disorder-treatment/ Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:11:13 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=7260 Families often encounter behavioral health in a moment of fear. A child is unraveling. A partner is disappearing into relapse. A parent is terrified that the next call will be the hospital, jail, or morgue. That urgency creates a market in which bad actors can exploit need, confusion, and time pressure. Healthcare fraud in mental […]

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]]> What Is Narcissistic Personality Disorder? https://heatherhayes.com/what-is-narcissistic-personality-disorder/ Wed, 18 Jun 2025 07:00:53 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=6826 “Well, they’re obviously a narcissist.”  This is a phrase we hear more and more in daily life: narcissism, narcissist, and narcissistic personality disorder have entered our common vocabulary, but not necessarily in a good way. Labeling someone a narcissist seems to be an easy way to attribute some of their negative behaviors to a pathology. […]

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]]> What Is Treatment-interfering Behavior and How Can It Impact Treatment? https://heatherhayes.com/what-is-treatment-interfering-behavior/ Sun, 19 Feb 2023 12:00:00 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=5463 Treatment-interfering behaviors are actions or ways of being that negatively impact the therapeutic relationship. In counseling and psychotherapy, the relationship between client and therapist is foundational to the success of therapy. While practitioners trained in dialectical behavior therapy refer to these behaviors as Treatment-Interfering Behavior (TIB), other therapists also observe these in sessions but may […]

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]]> The Dangerous Revival of “Heroin Chic” https://heatherhayes.com/the-dangerous-revival-of-heroin-chic/ Sun, 20 Nov 2022 11:30:00 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=5308 A tweet by the New York Post declaring that “heroin chic is back” and curvy bodies are out caused a great deal of backlash earlier this month, with body positivity influencers like Jameela Jamil highlighting the dangerous consequences of this 90s and 00s trend. The tweet came amid increasing numbers of very thin models walking […]

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]]> Do You Have To Want To Go To Treatment? Part Two https://heatherhayes.com/do-you-have-to-want-to-go-to-treatment-part-two/ Thu, 18 Aug 2022 12:39:30 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=5016 Why choosing to go to treatment is often more challenging than it seems Last week my blog post explored different approaches to seeking treatment and how various factors in a person’s life – family, work, legal pressures – might convince or compel them to attend treatment for a substance use disorder (SUD). This week, I […]

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]]> Do You Have To Want To Go To Treatment? https://heatherhayes.com/do-you-have-to-want-to-go-to-treatment/ Sun, 14 Aug 2022 12:10:52 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=5005 Different Approaches to Effective Recovery “Treatment does not need to be voluntary to be effective. Sanctions or enticements from family, employment settings, and/or the criminal justice system can significantly increase treatment entry, retention rates, and the ultimate success of drug treatment interventions.” – The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) [1]  When it comes to […]

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]]> Helping Avoidant Families with Conflict https://heatherhayes.com/helping-avoidant-families-with-conflict/ Fri, 08 Jul 2022 16:30:00 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=4978 How to understand and manage conflict within rigid, avoidant family systems Family systems are a major component of family therapy, treatment, and recovery for individuals struggling with mental health conditions and substance abuse disorders (SUD). Each family is a complex network of individual wants and needs, external social or work pressures, and habitual roles and […]

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