Southlake Center for Mental Health provides mental health care and interventions for substance abuse. We provide comprehensive and community based mental health and substance abuse treatment for adults, adolescents and children.

Health Tip: Parenting a Child With ADHD
Suggestions to guide the child's behavior

Long-Term Psychotherapy Seen As Beneficial for Complex Mental Disorders
In the treatment of patients with complex mental disorders, long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy lasting at least a year is significantly more effective than short-term therapy, according to a review published in the Oct. 1 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Depression Screening Urged for Heart Patients
Because coronary heart disease is often accompanied by depression, clinicians should aggressively screen patients for symptoms of depression and provide appropriate treatment, according to an American Heart Association Science Advisory published online Sept. 29 in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

Common Gene Mutation Lowers Risk for Bipolar Disorder
Study found missing section protected against psychiatric illness

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Best for Traumatized Youths
But study also finds too many clinicians still using unproven treatments.

Active Social Life May Reduce Men's Alzheimer's Risk
Home, family, club activities appear to enhance creation of new brain cells, study finds.