A time of emotional stress or crisis can be a turning point in a person’s life and not a breaking point-----a time of hope and not of despair.
Stress is a natural part of life:
Children, adolescents and adults all have stress in their life;
It can be difficult at times to function at our best trying to meet the ever-increasing demands of contemporary life;
We may develop significant distress in the form of symptoms such as depression, anxiety, school problems, excessive anger or work problems;
Conflict is present in all families; and
Some crises are unavoidable and relate to a person or family’s passage from one stage to another.
The stress of everyday life can be overcome:
Individuals or families in distress often describe their experience as feeling “locked up” and hopeless, with few ways out.
Early evaluation, detection and proper intervention can help a patient or family avoid or lessen such risks.
Neither you nor your family need to go through stress all alone.
Open the door
Treatment with Howard S. Rudominer, MD, and his associates Kathleen Pendergast, APN and Katherine Jackman,APN is geared toward helping individuals, and families “open the door” back into themselves and turn their life in the right direction.
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Doctor Rudominer recently appeared as an expert on this ABC Eyewitness News story on September 20, 2012. For more information about the topic and video check out our Facebook page (click on Facebook link above)
About Dr. Rudominer
Howard S. Rudominer, MD is a Board Certified child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist and is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at NYU Langone Medical Center. He has been listed as one of the best psychiatrists in the USA and Canada specializing in the treatment of people with Mood Disorders on a leading depression website.
Dr. Rudominer has been honored with the 2012 Patients' Choice Award. Among the nation's 870,000 active physicians and dentists, just five percent qualify for the award, based on patient feedback. Doctors are rated on-line by patients on various components of care, including accuracy of diagnoses, the amount of time spent with the doctor, and the doctor's bedside manner and follow-up care.
Kathleen Prendergast is a psychiatric advanced nurse practitioner, board certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Association in adolescent and adult psychiatry/ mental health. Continued
About Katherine Jackman, APN
Katherine Jackman is a psychiatric advanced nurse practitioner, board certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Association in adolescent and adult psychiatry/ mental health. Continued
Why choose a psychiatrist?
What's the difference between:
a psychiatrist,
a psychologist, and
a licensed psychiatric social worker
and a mental health nurse practitioner (MHNP)
A psychiatrist is a trained physician who has completed medical school. He or she then continues special training in the field of psychiatry much like other physicians receive specialized training in pediatrics or cardiology. Continued