NSU Gambling Health
Care Centers
by Jerry "Jet" Whittaker
February 18, 2006
The full form of NSU is Nova Southeastern University,
where their services are available to adults, children,
adolescents, and elderly clients, regardless of race,
color, sex, age, non disqualifying disability, religion
or creed, sexual orientation, or national or ethnic
origin.
The most known Health care center at NSU:
The most known health care center at NSU is Psychology
Services Center that offers services like alcohol
problems, behavioral modification, biofeedback,
discharge planning, drug problems, gambling problems,
family and multifamily therapy, pain management, stress
management, trauma resolution, consultation and
education, treatment of serious, smoking cessation,
weight management and many others. Also the Psychology
Services Center’s clinical staff consists of
professionals in psychology, psychiatry, social work,
and mental health counseling hence very popular.
Other health care centers are:
Other
center is
Biofeedback and Health Psychology Center
and here the program offers psychological evaluation,
intervention, and consultation for the optimum
management of an ongoing health related concern as well
as for the optimum maintenance of a healthy lifestyle.
Biofeedback and other health psychology interventions
can be provided to assist individuals with the
management of a chronic disease, headaches and other
types of a chronic pain, healthy eating and exercise,
changing health compromising behaviors, coping with
aversive medical/dental procedures, and overall health
promotion therefore very helpful for people they can
take some programs and improve themselves if they are
affected. However Psychoeducational workshops are
periodically made available for clients in order to
increase their skills for stress management, relaxation,
mindfulness meditation or assertive communication.
While another center is Intensive Psychodynamic
Psychotheraphy Center, where this program provides
diagnostic and in-depth treatment services to adults and
adolescents with moderate to severe characterological
disorders who would benefit optimally from more
intensive treatment but however this treatment
emphasizes the use of a variety of techniques including
ego-psychology, self-psychology, object relations, and
others.
Now, Neuropsychology Assessment Center are to diagnose
disorders of the central nervous system; to provide
consultation on the etiology, rate of progression, and
prognosis of known or suspected cerebral pathology and
also to offer recommendation or referral for the
patient's treatment. While some examples of typical
referrals include differential diagnosis of organic vs.
functional psychiatric symptoms also differential
diagnosis of dementia vs. depression; evaluation to
determine cognitive, emotional, or behavioral symptoms
subsequent to head injury; diagnosis of learning
disability, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or
mental retardation; determination of mental competence;
diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, seizure disorders,
multiple sclerosis, stroke, and organic mood syndrome;
evaluation of headache; determination of appropriate
school placement; and identification of malingering or
symptom exaggeration. And there are many other
centers. And there
are many other centers.
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