Laughter Therapy Laughter therapy is a form of therapy that encourages people to use the natural‚ physiological process of laugher to release painful emotions like anger‚ fear‚ helplessness‚ depression and stress. Humour helps give us perspective to our problems and makes us have a positive and hopeful attitude‚ that is why it is such a great relaxation method. The first documented case of "humour positively affecting disease" was in 1964 when Norman Cousins‚ published "Anatomy of an Illness". Medical
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Narrative Therapy is considered a non-blaming approach to the problems clients deal with. This type of therapy is a respectful and collaborative approach to counseling and community work‚ focusing on people’s ability to externalize problems. Narrative Therapy was developed by Michael White and David Epston. The central idea to this therapy is ‘the person never IS the problem. The person HAS a problem’. It essentially focuses on the stories of people’s lives and is centered on the theories that problems
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How is Music Therapy used with elderly people with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of Dementia? Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia in the United Kingdom‚ affecting approximately 417‚000 people. First described by German neurologist Alois Alzheimer‚ Alzheimer’s ‘can be considered as being the most important of the degenerative diseases because of its frequent occurrence and devastating consequences.’ The disease is a progressive one which means that once patients have the
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Play Therapy Play therapy is a type of mental health‚ educational‚ or developmental intervention that is designed to help children grow up as happy and well-adjusted as possible. It involves the use of play to communicate with children and to help children learn to solve problems and change their negative behaviors. The Association for Play Therapy defines play therapy as “the systematic use of a theoretical model to establish an interpersonal process wherein trained
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Cited: Wood‚ D. (n.d.). Gene Therapy and Cancer. Retrieved 10 24‚ 2012‚ from Health facts and information: http://www.beliefnet.com Human Genome Project information. (2011‚ 8 24). Retrieved 10 24‚ 2012‚ from Gene Therapy: http:www.ornl.gov National Cancer Institue. (2010‚ 4 27). Retrieved 10 24‚ 2012‚ from clinical trails: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopic/factseet/information/clinical-trails
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Cinematherapy‚ reality or fiction? As well as being for pleasure or entertainment‚ watching a film can also be good theraphy and can help personal growth. To recognize ourselves in a movie character is incredibly useful for helping us reflect and analyse our biggest problems No art passes our conscience in the way film does‚ and goes directly to our feelings‚ deep down into the dark rooms of our souls. These words from the film star Ingrid Bergman define the way in which we can become submerged
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In an article Dementia Therapy and Music Concetta Tomanio‚ a certified music therapist reflects solid‚ objective insight toward music and how it has an effect on the brain. The way the brain and the body processes music still remains very mysterious. “Why it’s so positive is that we process music with almost every part of our brain‚” asserts Tomanio. Music in its own affects everyone differently. Music that is connected with historical events or that has a personal significance to a person is key
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PSYCHOANALITIC THERAPY Psychoanalytic theories describe normative social and emotional development and explain individual development pathways and variations from this norm. Sigmund Freud was the originator of psychoanalysis. His views have influence the views of most of the contemporary theories. The aim of psychoanalysis therapy is to release repressed emotions and experiences‚ to make the unconscious conscious. Psychoanalysis divides the personality in three systems: Id: is the
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Narrative Therapeutic Approach Narrative therapy is an approach to counseling that centers people as the experts in their own lives. This therapy intends to view problems as separate entities to people‚ assuming that the individual’s set of skills‚ experience and mindset will assist them which reduce the influence of problems throughout life. This therapeutic approach intends to place the individual in both the leading role and author roles‚ switching the view from a narrow perspective
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retrieved from an article called “Play Therapy Experiences with the Culturally Diverse.” The purpose of the study was to determine which form of therapy rendered a more positive result among children cross-culture. The participants of the research included 86 school counselors from Texas. The two variables applied in the research are play therapy versus talk therapy. The Pearson correlation coefficient was employed to compare the responses to play therapy and talk therapy‚ and the reaction of the participants
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