Living with any chronic or serious illness can have negative effects on emotions and behavior. Problems with depression, anxiety, anger, relationships and low self-esteem are common.
If you are looking for help for mental health issues or for stress related to a medical condition or diagnosis of a medical condition in a family member, the caring and compassionate staff members at our Behavioral Medicine Clinic at UAMS can help. Using the science of behavioral medicine, we can help you understand how your actions can help the healing process and teach you important coping, time management and anger management skills.
Our top doctors, psychologists and counselors offer individual, group and family treatment sessions that focus
on the relationships between physical and mental health. We can help you learn ways to reduce stress, manage symptoms, improve coping, increase problem-solving skills and change behavioral risk factors.
Our Behavioral Medicine Clinic provides specialized services for patients with cancer and other medical conditions such
as chronic pain, transplants, premenstrual syndrome (PMS),
infertility, irritable bowel syndrome, eating disorders, headaches and smoking cessation.
UAMS offers services on both an inpatient and outpatient basis, including:
- Managing stress to improve your quality of life
- Consultation and treatment for psychological issues like depression, anxiety or family issues
- Mind-body strategies like meditation, visualization and hypnosis
- Women's wellness following breast cancer
- Pain management and dealing with nausea
- Treatment for anxiety disorders stemming from your medical treatment or experience
Visualization and meditation may be beneficial to patients. Dr. Stephanie Simonton Atchley of the UAMS Cancer Institute collaborated with experts, including Deepak Chopra, M.D., to create a Return to Wholeness DVD.
You may call to schedule your own appointment, or your doctor may refer you for an appointment. Please contact us to learn more about our services.
