Beacon Falls Library to host webinar on coping with anxiety during pandemic

Dr. Barbara Berkowitz received a BA in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin, and her MA and Ph.D. from SUNY at Buffalo in clinical psychology. She has worked in hospitals, outpatient clinics, and private practice, as well as spending five years as a professor in southern California. 


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PCRC in Derby offers program to help teens make good choices

DERBY - Is your teen lonely? Depressed? Anxious? Seem worried or confused? 

PCRC offers an adolescent program that can help you and your teen.
Today’s Choices is an adolescent program that helps youth understand the importance of the choices they make every day, and how those choices result in opportunities as well as consequences. 

Today’s Choices also helps parents learn about adolescent struggles, how parents’ behavior impacts the choices their children make, how to improve communication with their children, and how to help their children make more effective choices.

“We are pleased to be able to provide this service to adolescents in the community who may be struggling with any substance related issues.  
"At PCRC our hope is to bring more light to these issues and be a support for teens, parents and families,” said Sarah Beard, Director of Clinical Services at PCRC.

The program addresses at-risk behaviors, anxiety and depression, substance use, school performance, juvenile justice issues, social/peer problems, family relationships and problematic decision-making. 

Today’s Choices components include:

•  Comprehensive risk assessment

•  Individual youth sessions

•  Group youth sessions

•  Parent sessions

•  Family sessions

•  Psychiatric services

•  Toxicology screens

“Today’s choices focuses on all aspects of adolescent emotional development, helping teens acquire a core set of skills aimed to enhance the way the manage difficult situations,” said Dr. Sandra E. Gomez Luna, Medical Director, BHcare/PCRC. “Through the completion of the program, teens will be more prepared to make effective choices to guide them in their discovery of future successes.” 

A division of BHcare

PCRC, a division of BHcare, provides hope and help for children, adolescents, teens, and families struggling with emotional and behavioral issues. 

Visit www.bhcare.org for more information.

This is a press release from BHcare.

Learn chronic disease self-management at Griffin Hospital in Derby

Griffin Hospital will host a free Live Well Chronic Disease Self-Management Workshop from March 22-April 26./ Contributed photo

DERBY - Griffin Hospital will host a free six-week workshop starting March 22 to help individuals suffering from health conditions take back control of their lives.

The Live Well Chronic Disease Self-Management Workshop provides health information and strategies to help those with health conditions like pain, anxiety, diabetes, depression, heart disease, and arthritis increase their energy and take control of their health.

Along with clinical care, participants will learn ways to cope with difficult emotions, depression, and stress/anxiety, reduce pain, improve mobility, increase energy, increase physical activity, eat healthier, use medications appropriately, and solve everyday problems and communicate effectively with family and health care providers.

The workshop will be held from 3:30-6 p.m.Wednesdays starting March 22 at the hospital, 130 Division St.

The Live Well Chronic Disease Self-Management Workshop is sponsored by the Connecticut Department of Social Services Aging Services Division, Connecticut Department of Public Health, and Griffin Hospital.

To register, call Esther Jones at Griffin Hospital’s Community Outreach and Valley Parish Nurse Program, 203-732-1523.

This is a press release from Griffin Hospital.