Our mission is to provide positive recovery and mental health wellness outcomes throughout the region by promoting patient- and family-centered care, education and research. Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being.
It affects how we think, feel and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others and make choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood. Behavioral health issues affect millions of adolescents and adults in the United States with about 1 in 5 adults, aged 18 or older, having a mental illness.
Over the course of your life, if you experience mental health problems, your thinking, mood and behavior could be affected. Many factors contribute to mental health problems, including:. Mental health problems are common and help is available. People with mental health problems can improve and many recover completely. At Wake Forest Baptist, the patient's best interests come first. This commitment takes priority over everything else we do.
Even though we are an academic center with serious commitments to education and research, we never lose sight of the fact that all our activities serve one person - the patient. Our mission is to improve behavioral health and well-being of the people of this region by means of patient care, education and research. It is the full and thoughtful integration of these three elements that makes academic medical centers different; it is the dedication to placing patient care first that identifies the best of these centers.
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. Our Physician Liaisons partner with referring physicians in our community and beyond to provide information on our physicians and clinical services. Full list of new physicians. Research is critical for the advancement of clinical knowledge and community practice. The mission of our research division is threefold: 1 to investigate new treatments, develop novel interventions, and gain knowledge to improve mental health; 2 to set a standard of excellence in training new scientists and practitioners to pursue their own research interests; and 3 to build ongoing partnerships with synergistic organizations within the community, engage those partners in research, and disseminate research results in a way that promotes empowerment and inspires action.
