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Learn About Mental Health Disorder Treatment

Learn about mental health treatment at Belmont Behavioral Health System in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Belmont Behavioral Health System, a mental health hospital and treatment center in Philadelphia, provides personalized comprehensive care to children, adolescents, adults, and older adults who are struggling with a range of behavioral and mental health issues, including but not limited to the following:

Adjustment Disorders

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Adjustment disorders
These are characterized by distressing emotional and/or behavioral symptoms that result from an identifiable stressor.

Personality Disorders

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Borderline personality disorder
This disorder is characterized by impulsivity as well as persistent patterns of instability in affect, self-image, and relationships.

Schizophrenia Spectrum and other Psychotic Disorders

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Brief psychotic disorder
Symptoms of this disorder include temporary episodes of disorganized speech, hallucinations, delusions, and/or catatonic or grossly disorganized behaviors.

Delusional disorder
Delusions involve holding onto certain beliefs that an individual will refuse to disavow even in the face over overwhelming contradictory evidence.

Schizoaffective disorder
Individuals who have schizoaffective disorder will experience the symptoms of schizophrenia as well as symptoms of mania and/or major depression.

Schizophrenia
Symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech, and catatonia can make it difficult for people with schizophrenia to interpret or interact with their environment.

Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders

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Conduct disorder
People who have this disorder may engage in repetitive and persistent behaviors that infringe upon the basic rights of others or contradictory to age-appropriate societal norms.

Oppositional defiant disorder
Individuals who have ODD will have difficulty getting along with others, and will be prone to violent outbursts, antagonizing behaviors, and a disregard for authority.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder
OCD is characterized by persistent, recurrent, and unwanted thoughts, urges, and/or behaviors.

Anxiety Disorders

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Panic Disorder
This disorder is characterized by sudden and recurrent episodes of extreme fear, racing heartbeat, sensation of choking, and similar unpleasant physical and psychological symptoms.

Symptoms & Clinical Concerns

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Aggression
This behavior, which can be symptomatic of disorders such as ODD, includes acting or speaking in a hostile or violent manner toward others.

Delirium
This experience includes confused thoughts, reduced understanding or awareness of one’s surroundings, and significant disturbances in cognitive functioning.

Psychosis
This involves a separation from the reality in which one exists. Symptoms of psychosis can include strange physical behaviors, disorganized thoughts, visual and/or auditory hallucinations, and delusions.

Self-harm
This term describes several behaviors that are engaged in for the purpose of inflicting damage onto one’s own body, such as cutting or burning one’s skin, breaking one’s bones, or pulling out one’s hair.

Suicidal ideation
Any thoughts of ending one’s own life, from a brief consideration of doing so through the development of a specific plan for how, when, and were to kill oneself, fall under the description of suicidal ideation.

Trauma
Painful, upsetting, or tragic events such as military combat, physical attack, sexual assault, serious illness, natural disasters, automobile accidents, and the sudden death of a loved one, fall under the category of trauma.

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