Investing in Healing: Supporting Transformative Therapies for Behavioral Health
Mental health and substance use conditions may affect anyone and can result from a combination of biological, social, psychological, and cultural factors. Medical attention paired with other treatments and therapies can transform lives. Music, art, and pet therapy are just a few of the therapies that reduce harm mentality and trigger positive emotions that lead to change.
Your 2025 Sponsorship will make an immediate impact!
Implementing new therapies for inpatient adults and adolescents will move patients closer to recovery, teach them new skills, and bring joy to a fragile time in their lives.
- Animal-assisted therapy (AAT) is beneficial for individuals who have experienced trauma, including those diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder and schizophrenia. AAT contributes to enhanced emotional well-being, reduced anxiety, and decreased stress levels.
- Music therapy improves depressive symptoms, decreases anxiety, and improves functioning for people with a variety of mental health conditions. Music interventions focus on symptom management, foster relationships with peers and therapists, and provide psychosocial support and education to augment hope, meaning, purpose, and recovery.
- Art therapy refers to various treatments, such as theatre therapy, dance movement psychotherapy, body psychotherapy, drawing, painting, and craft therapy. Art therapy can help patients express themselves more freely, improve their mental health, and improve interpersonal relationships.
Please contact Deb Anthoine, Executive Director of Philanthropy at danthoine@stmarysmaine.com or 207.777.8828 with questions.
Please contact Deb Anthoine, Executive Director of Philanthropy at danthoine@stmarysmaine.com or 207.777.8828 with questions.
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How Your Gift Helps Patients
Sheila was a prominent member of our business community, who had a dependency on alcohol. During the pandemic, she lost her job. Due to the alcoholism, she ended up losing her possessions, her family, her home, and her self-worth. With nothing left to lose, she walks over to St Mary’s to present herself for alcohol detox. When she checks in to the emergency department, she is brought to the behavioral emergency room. It’s noisy and crowded. Then matthew arrives.
Matthew is a 19-year-old college student brought to the BED by EMS and police after his roommate and some of his teammates expressed concerns about his well-being. His roommate found a note to him written by Matthew suggesting he was planning to harm himself. The police convince Matthew to come in for help. He admits to the triage nurse that he feels like he is a complete failure and has been thinking of hanging himself. Although he agreed to go to St. Mary’s, he is overwhelmed and frightened by the number of people in the behavioral emergency department and develops a plan to leave.
Thanks to the support of 2024 Sponsors, the overcrowding will be addressed so patient like Sheila and Matthew will feel safe and comfortable and will continue to seek treatment.
The patients portrayed in these stories are fictitious and any similarities to real individuals, living or dead, are purely unintentional.
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