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10301 Mayo Drive
Barling, Arkansas 72923
(844) 204-0808
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About Valley Behavioral Health System Valley Behavioral Health System is the leading provider of mental health services for children, adolescents, adults, and seniors in the Arkansas River Valley. Located on a picturesque campus in Fort Smith, Arkansas, Valley Behavioral offers a wide range of treatment options and levels of care for those who are seeking relief and recovery from psychiatric conditions and chronic medical illnesses. Understanding that each patient has specific treatment needs, Valley Behavioral focuses on individualized treatment planning that is centered on healing. The staff at Valley Behavioral, composed of psychiatrists, nurses, therapists, social workers, and other specialized professionals, work to ensure that each patient receives quality care and is comfortable throughout his or her stay. By promoting crisis resolution, self-awareness, personal growth, and social skills through proven therapeutic techniques and modalities, patients are able to successfully acquire tools needed to recover from debilitating conditions, such as depression. Signs and Symptoms of Depression Depression, a mental illness known to cause extreme emotional pain, affects people of all ages. Often preventing individuals from leading happy, healthy lives, depression can impair a person's ability to enjoy life's simple pleasures due to the feelings of hopelessness, helplessness, worthlessness, and intense sadness that come with the disorder. Depression can also infringe on a person's ability to remember things, think clearly, concentrate, or make good choices. Aside from the warfare that depression can wage on a person's psyche, a number of physiological symptoms can occur if the disorder goes untreated. Decreased appetite, rapid weight gain or loss in a short period of time, insomnia or hypersomnia, and pain are often reported by sufferers of depression. When these symptoms combine with the psychological symptoms associated with depression, people may notice the individual losing interest in things once enjoyed, have difficulty fulfilling roles, missing school or work, or isolating him or herself from friends and loved ones. Those that suffer from depression are also at an increased risk of developing suicidal ideations or even attempting suicide therefore making it more important to seek help immediately. Treatment Options Valley Behavioral Health Systems provides that effective treatment and can assist in turning a depressed person's life around. Offering acute inpatient and outpatient services for children, adolescents, adults, and seniors, intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization for adults, and residential, therapeutic day treatment, and school-based services for children and adolescents, Valley Behavioral is more that equipped to help individuals with depression achieve recovery from depression. Within the programs offered at Valley Behavioral, patients can expect to partake in individual, group, and family therapy as part of the therapeutic process. These different modalities are in place so that patients with depression can work through their symptoms and gain new skills that will foster lasting healing. Lastly, Valley Behavioral incorporates experiential therapies, such as relaxation techniques, medication management services (supervised by medical professionals) so as to ensure that all treatment needs are met. Valley Behavioral treats the whole person, not just the disorder. So if you or a loved one is in need of treatment for depression, look no further than Valley Behavioral Health System.

My Specialties
Depression
Suicidal Ideation
Bipolar Disorder
ADHD
Anxiety
Medication Management
Self-Harming
Alzheimer's
Borderline Personality
Oppositional Defiance
Trauma and PTSD
Trauma
PTSD
Elderly Persons Disorders
Psychosis
Mood Disorders