Self-regulation and self-management are critical components of mental health, self-efficacy, and social connectivity. But our modern habits are corrosive, changing mood, cognition, and behavior. The lights and stimuli from screens stress our anatomy, and screen time (TV, tablet, laptop, smartphone) causes repeated stress on the central nervous system. Such stress makes underlying mental health disorders more difficult to diagnose and treat.
Britten Devereux shares with us the brain will reveal that our clinical practices must be flexible, adaptive, curious, energetic and stable to treat today’s patient. While we come to grips with behaviors that have us dysregulated and in a daily panic, clinicians need to integrate this research to write a realistic treatment plan and reduce patient’s anxiety.
What makes us most human is what is least computable about us – the connections between our mind and our body, the experiences that shape our memory, our thinking and our capacity for empathy and emotion. – Weizenbaum, MIT Computer Scientist.
Today’s goal: to help you Improve mood, cognition & behavior.
ABOUT BRITTEN DEVEREUX
As one of the founders of D’Amore Healthcare, Britten Devereux addresses concepts around scarcity, process addiction, comorbidity, and healthcare in terms of long-term needs. A Grand Canyon State University and Arizona State University alumnus, Devereux is committed to creating better healthcare standards. With experience working as a clinical supervisor, then managing director, she ensures patients are treated with dignity and that services focus on positive reinforcement and what she likes to call “gracious redundancy.”
