Category: Different Side of Treatment
The Good Therapy Blog
November 7th, 2011 |
For clients with schizophrenia, maintaining their antipsychotic medication and clinical evaluations is sporadic and frequently results in non-compliance. “Factors contributing to non-adherence and partial adherence include medication side effects, severity of psychotic symptoms, impaired cognition, and inadequate understanding of the role of medication in preventing relapse,” said Kathryn Puskar, Ph.D. and Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing. “Non-adherence to antipsychotic treatment is associated... Read More
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November 1st, 2011 |
Anxiety can cause feelings of worry, panic and apprehension. Physically, people who experience high levels of anxiety also have elevated heart rates, muscle tension and increased cortisol production. Many of the treatments used for anxiety include relaxation and meditation techniques designed to address the physical and emotional symptoms of the problem. “As well as being a potential benefit in circumstances such as those mentioned above, music as a relaxation aid is also used extensively within receptive music,” said Dave Elliott of the University... Read More
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October 21st, 2011 |
Perhaps youʼve come across one of the many articles or videos with titles like, “In Love with the Eiffel Tower”, or a recent National Geographic Taboo program called “Forbidden Love?” The topic is Objectum Sexuality (OS), a rare sexual orientation which includes affectionate, romantic, and sometimes erotic attraction and relationships with objects. The beloved objects can range from transport to landmarks, from sporting equipment to fisheye buttons.
Such stories may make us shake our heads and mutter, “How can this be?” Are these people delusional, or worse - dangerous? How seriously... Read More
October 11th, 2011 |
I have just finished having my yearly tradition of what I like to call, "a good cry". It's my son's 14th birthday, and for the past ten years, I have set aside the morning hours of this day to participate in this cleansing ritual. My son, Ben, isn't deceased; he has autism. Not the "you-wouldn't-know-it-if-I-didn't-tell-you" kind. Ben has "full-blown-could-melt-down-any-moment-take-off-all-his-clothes-and-run-into-the-woods-requiring-search-helicopters-and-bloodhounds-to-find-him" kind. You get the picture.
As a therapist, I work closely with the Kubler-Ross stages of grief: denial, bargaining,... Read More
September 30th, 2011 |
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Men are much less likely to seek clinical help for their psychological issues than women. Because they hold to traditional male gender roles, most men do not respond to psychotherapy delivered in a generic approach, most often welcomed and received positively by women. “Practitioners who are accustomed to working in androgynous environments may fail to fully grasp the foreign nature of psychotherapy to men who hold “traditional” North American masculine gender role beliefs,” said Robinder P. Bedi and Mica Richards of Western Washington University,... Read More
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August 31st, 2011 |
According to a new study, soldiers who play aggressive video games on a regular basis experience less traumatic nightmares than soldiers who only play occasionally or who play less violent games. Jayne Gackenbach of Grant MacEwan University believes the video games offer an opportunity of empowerment that transfers into their dreams. “Video game play may offer not only a type of training for learning to shoot targets or attend to peripheral cues in a dangerous environment, but also some inoculation to threats in nightmares,” said Gackenbach. “These dreams are the most common element of... Read More
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August 30th, 2011 |
Adult attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common problem that affects millions of people. ADHD can slow learning, cause disorganized thoughts and result in emotional deregulation. In order to decipher the specific impairments resulting from ADHD and identify precisely how adult ADHD affects each one, researchers from the University of Cambridge and Adult ADHD Research Clinic, the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, Trinity College, Ludwig-Maximillians-University and University Bielefeld collaborated... Read More
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August 30th, 2011 |
Research has shown that the level of cortisol, the stress hormone, is directly related to the severity of symptoms in people with Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD). Stress causes the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis to react and release cortisol. This same dynamic occurs when people experience fear. The stress caused by this release of cortisol, whether as a result of fear or anxiety, can elicit overwhelming and often debilitating symptoms that can severely impair one’s quality of life. Because many people with SAD also... Read More
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August 29th, 2011 |
What does therapy actually do? How does it work? Does anyone really ever change? The field of neuroscience has exploded in recent years, revealing a number of findings about the human brain; how it develops, how it operates, and how it changes. Neuroplasticity explains that the brain is not a rigid organ, but is malleable, and changes throughout life, both in structure and function. This change happens through our experience. We actively change our brains by the way we respond to our environment.
The brain and nervous system are made up of millions of neurons and hold the capacity to connect... Read More
August 21st, 2011 |
In a recent study, researchers from Utrecht University, Catholic University Leuven, VU University Amsterdam and Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany, collaborated to identify if particular groups of individuals are more vulnerable to weather related moods. Because of the evidence of the presence of a population segment that has seasonal mood shifts, particularly those who experience Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), the team wanted to distinguish between those who exhibited... Read More
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August 20th, 2011 |
To answer that question, researchers at King’s College, London, and the University of London, studied over 1,300 twins, using data from a longitudinal study. The twins were between the ages of 12 and 19 years old at the beginning of the study. The participants were instructed to answer questionnaires at four different points in time, at the onset of the study (Wave 1), eight months after the initial contact (Wave 2), and again 25 months after the... Read More
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August 19th, 2011 |
Patrick Pössel, of the Eberhard-Karls-University, studied students to determine if a combination of two popular theories on depression, namely Beck’s Cognitive Theory and Response Style Theory, would provide better accuracy if elements of both were integrated. Pössel looked specifically at brooding and reflection, or rumination, as a factor for his study. The 397 students... Read More
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August 18th, 2011 |
Researchers from the University of Michigan conducted a study to determine what pre-existing factors present the highest risk for youth developing alcohol dependency. The team examined data from 401 children for their three year-long study. The data was collected from the Michigan Longitudinal Study, a study aimed at identifying risk factors for substance misuse in vulnerable families. The participants... Read More
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August 16th, 2011 |
Because physical health and exercise has been linked to mental health, researchers at the VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts, Boston University School of Medicine and Minneapolis VA Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collaborated on a study to examine this relationship closer. “Numerous studies have shown that exercise is associated with improved psychological well-being, health, and life satisfaction,” said the team. They... Read More
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