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- From Complexity to Clarity: Expert Perspective and Integrated Treatment of PTSD, Eating Disorders and Comorbidity
- Epigenetics and Neurotoxicity of Methamphetamine: An Active Killer During the Opioid Epidemic
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- Other Specified Anxiety Disorder: Symptoms, Causes & Treatment
- Understanding Panic Disorder vs. Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Key Differences and Similarities
- Unspecified Trauma and Stressor Related Disorder
- Panic Disorder Treatment
- Acute Stress Disorder vs. PTSD
- Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for Trauma: A Guide to Healing and Recovery
- Exposure and Response Prevention for Teens: A Guide to Overcoming Anxiety and OCD
- Anorexia vs. Bulimia: Key Differences, Symptoms, and Treatments
- Ozempic’s Connection to Eating Disorders
- Atypical Anorexia
- What is Unipolar Depression? Symptoms, Causes, and Treatments
- High Functioning Depression: Signs, Symptoms, Causes, and Treatments
- Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for Teens and Adolescents at SunCloud Health: A Proven Path to Overcoming Anxiety and OCD
- Harm Reduction Explained: a No-Nonsense Approach to Substance Use Treatment
- A Call for Healthcare Reform in the Wake of Tragedy: Value-Based Care Will Solve the Problem
- Failure to Launch: What It Means and How SunCloud Health Helps Young Adults Thrive
- Taking Advantage of Winter Break: A Perfect Opportunity for College Students to Reset
- Seeking Recovery throughout the Holidays and Progression in the New Year
- Ethics and Transparency in Teen Behavioral Health: How SunCloud Health Sets a Higher Standard
- ARFID Treatment: How SunCloud Health Treats the Disorder
- Effectively Managing Adolescent Stress During the Holiday Season
- Gen Z Drug and Alcohol Use: Trends, Challenges, and How SunCloud Health Can Help
- TikTok Addiction in Teens
- The Growing Problem of Screen Addiction in Teens: How SunCloud Health Can Help
- Anxiety in Teens: How SunCloud Health Can Help
- The Growing Danger of Galaxy Gas Abuse: What You Need to Know
- Intrusive vs. Impulsive Thoughts: Understanding the Differences and Finding Support
- How to Support Someone with an Eating Disorder
- Understanding Drunkorexia: A Dangerous Intersection of Disordered Eating and Alcohol Abuse
- Choosing the Right Path: Partial Hospitalization Program vs. Intensive Outpatient Program for Your Recovery Journey
- Depression and Eating Disorders in Adolescents: Understanding Symptoms and Treatment Options
- Understanding the Link Between OCD and Eating Disorders
- Back-to-School Nerves? Here’s How to Prepare to Help Your Student Overcome Mental Health Challenges This School Year.
- June is National Men’s Health Month and We’re Breaking Down Stigma
- National Trauma Awareness Month – Discussing the Importance of Trauma-Informed Care
- We All Belong—A Humanistic and Trauma-Informed Approach
- Understanding the Nuances Between Residential Treatment and Outpatient Care at SunCloud Health
- April Is National Stress Awareness Month; Here’s What You Should Know about Stress
- Understanding Addiction and Addiction Treatment at SunCloud Health
- Black History Month: Shining a Light on Past and Present Systemic Problems
- Understanding Anxiety Disorders & Types of Treatment Available
- The Dangers of Adolescents Using Substances – Warning Signs and Treatment Options
- Silence is Deadly: USPSTF Revised Recommendations for Children Living in Larger Bodies Now Open for Comment
- Dr. Kim Dennis, MD, speaking at March AED and ICED 2024 Plenaries!
- Kim Dennis MD, CEDS, to present, “Shark-Infested Waters: GLP/GIP Agonists in ED Populations” at the iaedp Symposium!
- Supporting Mental Health during the Holidays through Nutrition
- Combatting Myths in a Food-Centered Celebratory Season
- Unlimited Expansion: The Spirit of the Holiday
- The Power of Prevention: Reducing Depression in Adolescents by Addressing Bullying
- How to Help Teenagers Refusing to Seek Mental Health Treatment
- Open now in Gaithersburg, Maryland. We made it!
- Excerpts from the Experts interview with SCH’s Kim Dennis, MD, CEDS on the Treatment of Co-Occurring Eating Disorders, Addiction, and Trauma
- Shining a Light on Mental Health: Suicide Awareness Month
- Kim Dennis, MD, CEDS to Present at the Yoga and Recovery Symposium
- CME-CEU Program – September 22nd – with Dr. Carolyn Coker Ross, MD, MPH, CEDS
- CEU Event – August 30th – with Dr. Kevin Sabet, PhD
- Navigating Cannabis Use and Adolescent Mental Health: A Guide for Parents and Providers
- CEU Event – August 18th – with Dr. Joshua Siegel, MD, PhD
- Unraveling the Genetic Ties: Cannabis Use and Psychiatric Disorders
- Toxic Body Positivity
- Pride Month: Embracing Diversity in Mental Health Treatment
- CME-CEU Program – July 21st – with Dr. Timothy Brewerton, MD, DLFAPA, FAED, DFAACAP, CEDS-S
- School’s Out for Summer
- The Healing Role of Connection The Loneliness Epidemic – July 12
- The Link Between Excessive Screen Time and Suicide Risk is Growing Among Teenagers, Especially Girls
- CME-CEU Program – June 23rd – Epigenetics and neurotoxicity of methamphetamine: an active killer during the opioid epidemic.
- The Benefits of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Therapy for Persistent Symptoms
- Research Uncovers Common Genetic Indicators Linked to Substance Abuse Disorders
- Disturbing Events Recently in the News
- Dr Kim’s Announcement on the 2023 NEDA Walk
- Continuing Education Series – Food Addiction: Is it a Thing? Implications for Treating Eating Disorders
- A New Approach: Combined ED and SUD Treatment
- Update On Men And Eating Disorders
- Stigma and Fear Kills People with “Mental Health” Issues, Even in 2023!
- 2023 Media Coverage for SunCloud Health
- How to Talk to the Doctor About Your Eating Disorder: A 5-Step Guide
- Update On Black Americans and Eating Disorders
- A Critical Look at the New Guidelines for Kids with Higher BMIs
- See Dr. Kim Featured on The Philip DeFranco Show – Discussing Body Image and Social Media
- A statement by Dr. Kim Dennis on the AAP’s new guidelines for the evaluation and treatment of children and adolescents with obesity.
- Racial Inequity in Addiction Treatment
- Real Solutions, not Resolutions this New Year
- SunCloud Health Expands Access to Treatment for Complex Mental Health Conditions, Eating Disorders and Addiction in the Chicago Area
- Tis The Season… For Depression
- Orthorexia: The Pain We Love To Praise
- SunCloud Health Team Celebrates Halloween 2022
- TMS Therapy Now Offered at SunCloud Health
- Persistent Depressive Disorder (PDD): How to Treat It, and How to Beat It
- Join SunCloud’s Kimmy Haynes in SHATTERPROOF RISE UP AGAINST ADDICTION 2022 Walk
- When Overdose Awareness Can Save A Life
- The Power of the Group at SunCloud Health
- What Lurks Beneath and What Lies Above: The Impact of Substance Use in Teens with Depression and Anxiety
- Big Box Stores Versus Independent Retail
- Tips and Tools for Sending Your Patient Off/Back to College
- The Time is Now for the Medical Community to Act on Gun Violence
- Sharing Our Own Stories Helps Others
- WHAT HAPPENED THIS WEEK IN TEXAS IS TRAGIC AND IT SHOULD SCARE THE HECK OUT OF ALL OF US. For Many Reasons.
- Dr. Kim to Co-Chair Substance Related & Addictive Disorders
- THE POWER OF WATCHING OUR LOVED ONES RECOVER
- Helping adolescents find their voice
- Passion for treating adolescents
- Why might a dietitian be helpful to your recovery?
- ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDER CEU SERIES
- Call to apply an outcomes and value-based approach to mental health
- Why SunCloud? Andrea Grubb Barthwell, MD
- A podcast featuring Kimberly Dennis, MD. She shares her story, the state of Eating Disorder Treatment and Recovery at SunCloud Health.
- Why There’s No One Single Solution with Dr. Kim Dennis
- 60 Minutes+ interviews SunCloud Health’s Eleanor Annan, MD on the effects of benzo withdrawal.
- SunCloud Health Adds RTC (21 beds) to Our Services: Doubling Down on Our Commitment to Value Based Care
- Our Shared Experience Of Watching Our Kids Struggle with Mental Health and Addiction, and then Finding Recovery.
- Words Matter.
- All foods fit, but not all foods fit all the time for all persons.
- “abundance not scarcity. Both/and, not either/or”
- Is Cancel Culture the New Shaming?
- Extend Telehealth Benefits Or Not Post Pandemic? Yet Another Reason For Standardized Quality Measures In Mental Health And Addiction Treatment.
- My Life-altering Experience with LSD
- Outcomes become even more important as we grow
- Destination treatment trappings. Why is treatment more effective close to home?
- Drug of No-Choice: A 12-step Perspective
- Answering the phones SunCloud Health
- Diagnosing Substance Use Disorder
- Dr Kim, SunCloud’s nurturing collaborative leader
- Kanye West: Mental Illness Deserves Sympathy, Not Scorn
- Tele-health Executive Order requires issuers to step up
- Google SEO Rankings: Links + Domains = Authority Index, troubling for quality care providers
- Seminar: Helping Patients Experience Gratitude and Purpose
- Food for Thought: A Necessary Paradigm Shift
- Land Mines and Booby Traps: Navigating Re-enactments in Treating Patients with Trauma
- Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation Patient Care Network
- Naperville Open House
- Addressing the Lack of Continuity of Care in Mental Health Services
- The post screening panel of All of Me.
- All of Me: A Documentary Film on Eating Disorders
- A massive breakthrough in our understanding of anorexia nervosa
- Shale Marks on Making a Difference NBC 5 Chicago for Contact High the Musical and SunCloud Talk Back
- It costs more to provide higher quality care, and it’s worth it, even if nobody is able to see it (yet!)
- You can rebuild your life in the wake of emotional abuse
- Live Panel Discussion after “Contact High”
- What’s Addiction Got to Do With It?
- A Personal Statement, by Dr. Kim Dennis, on Safeguarding Patient Care
- Healthy body, healthy mind: the role of nutrition in recovery
- A request for real collaboration to the Chicago area Treatment Centers
- Young man’s death by opioid overdose shows the dangers of experimenting with pain medications
- What’s Addiction Got To Do With It? Understanding Eating Disorders Within the Addiction Spectrum
- Worried About Opioid Abuse? A Closer Look at the Prescription Pain Medications You or Your Family May Be Taking Right Now
- 2018 Family Law Symposium: The Effects of Substance Abuse and Domestic Violence on Children of Addicted Parents
- The Effects of Substance Abuse and Domestic Violence on Children of Addicted Parents
- The importance of taking some time on Labor Day to think
- Baby Elephant Beliefs, written by Shale Marks, LCSW CADC and Dr. Kimberly Dennis, MD
- Abundance over Scarcity
- If Addiction is a Disease, Why is Relapsing a Crime?
- Using The Data When “Giving Up” Is On The Table
- The Sky is the Limit with Harry Kraemer
- Spring Break
- Voice of the Customer.. Or is Voice of the Patient Better?
- Eliminating Fraud in SA Treatment Is Critical For Our Patients. They Deserve Nothing Less
- Clinicians and Non-Clinicians…Mutual Trust and Respect
- Announcing a New Alliance called VMH, Value in Mental Health
- Mental Health Awareness Month
- SCH participates in a visit to Congressman Roskam’s office to discuss the value of mental health.
- Values
- The customer is always right
- What Does Repeal and Replace Mean for Mental Health Treatment in America?
- The Problem With Parity: It Doesn’t Exist
- Prevention and Early Childhood Trauma-from a dad who could have done better
- How Do We Make Decisions On Where To Go For Help When There Is No Reliable Data? OUTCOMES!
- SINGLE CASE AGREEMENTS, SELECTIVE CONTRACTING AND DOING WHAT IS RIGHT FOR THE PATIENT
- A letter of hope for freedom, from an anonymous former patient of Dr Kim Dennis
- Gratitude- Not Always Easy To See, but Always There- by Dr Kim.
- A Disturbing Conversation with my 14 Year Old Son…
- Children: Today’s Unseen Casualties
- Using medication assisted therapy and 12 step to treat opioid addiction?
- A Little Bit of Clarification On What We Mean When We Use the Word, “Value”.
- Dr. Kim named to the National Advisory Board and University ED Recovery on Campus by Hynes Recovery Services
- A Case is Made for Integration and Coordination of Care
- Tell Me I’m Fat
- Mental Health does not get the same treatment from payers
- Value Based Reimbursement
- What is it like being a sober kid on the North Shore?
- Teenage child of an alcoholic affected positively
- Redesigning Behavioral Healthcare and Improving Outcomes, Reducing Total Cost
- A Positive Step in Curbing Opiate Addiction
- Pain as a Vital Sign
- A New Form of Bulimia: Pump Eliminates Need to Purge
- Bill and Bob Were Right all Along
- Positive Change in the Modeling Industry
- Suicide in College: The Tide Needs To Turn
- New Research Regarding Psychedelic Agents
- Treating Anorexia: Is Cannabis A Cure?
- Say No to the “J” Word
- My Story is Your Story
- Treating Co-occurring Disorders Together: It’s Time for Change
- Power, Productivity and Pills: A Dangerous Triad
- Vyvanse: An Inappropriate Medication in the Treatment of BED
- The Perils of Consumer-Directed Medication Marketing
- Reject Predictability
- The Reality of True Recovery
- Lost Time
- Suicide: The Public Exploitation of a Private Tragedy
- To Med or Not to Med…That is the Question
- Recovery Nugget
- Reflections on College
- The Ultimate Loser
- Vulnerability and Truth in Recovery
- The Biggest Losers
- Recovery and Spirituality
- The “functional” addict