Envision Therapies - The Game

Featured as an easter egg at envisiontherapies.net, it might have been overlooked. Enjoy Envision Therapies - Cloud Clearer. Blast those dark clouds from the Seattle skyline in order to let in some sun! Happy Spring!

Personality Inventory for DSM-5

The American Psychiatric Association developed some great measurements to use with folks to screen, and more importantly in my work, meter progress. Recently, a colleague introduced me to the Personality Inventory for DSM-5.  I think it can be a great tool, but it discouraged me that I could find no reliable key to crunch the numbers. Clinicians interested are welcome to use This File to help score the measure.

(For others, please note that the test is a clinical tool and does not constitute a diagnosis, recommendation, or treatment.)

There's An App For That

The mobile technology innovation continues to permeate into our lives -- like most things -- it's a double edged sword. We have information at our fingertips at the cost of unsolicited information flooding our lives and minds and a loss of privacy.
Journaling provides a great opportunity to get thoughts out of the head, on paper, no longer bouncing around in your head. Someone pointed out to me recently that there are now great apps to keep journals. When the caveat to writing a journal has always been to make sure it can be kept safe from others' eyes, apps provide even greater security for our private thoughts. Here are a few mobile apps just for journaling:

 

Journal (Nook)

myMemoir (iPad)
iJournaler (iPad)

There are many other mobile apps that provide some bona fide benefits to our mental health:

Relax: Stress & Anxiety Relief (Android)

Stress Test & CBT Self-Help (Android)
Let Panic Go (iPad/iPhone)