What is Behavioral Health?
Great question! Behavioral Health describes a type of healthcare that looks at mental health, lifestyle, patterns of behavior, interpersonal relationships, and more.
The word ‘behavioral’ is used because behavioral health practices focus on the ways your thought patterns and learned emotional responses influence your behavior and affect how you react to daily living.
How Can Behavioral Health Help?
Behavioral health services can help people at any point in their lives. Sometimes, people handling specific situations like the death of a loved one or family conflict find behavioral health services to be beneficial. Behavioral health also assists people with diagnosed mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and more.
How Is LECOM Behavioral Health Different?
LECOM Behavioral Health takes a trauma-informed care approach to providing behavioral health services. It takes the question of “What’s wrong with you?” and instead asks “What happened to you?” A trauma-informed approach to care understands that we need to have a complete picture of a person’s life situation – past and present – in order to provide effective services.
Trauma-Informed Care values:
- Safety: Everyone should feel physically and psychologically safe.
- Transparency: To build and maintain trust, decisions are made with transparency and with open communication.
- Collaboration: Shared decision-making and direct input from you on services provided.
- Empowerment: Strengths-based approach with a belief in resilience and the ability to heal from trauma.