Through expressive art therapy children can help bring these suppressed emotions to the surface. Expressive art therapy can also aid a child in achieving better self-awareness‚ relief from stress or anxiety‚ learning disorders‚ autism‚ and other traumatic experiences. Through art therapy‚ children receive treatment that is based on their existing strengths‚ weaknesses‚ interests‚ and concerns. It can help children of all ages and races. According to the American Dance Therapy Association website (2009)
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networking of the brain and the patients body functions have a huge role when using music therapy. Each song or sound is able to stimulate certain areas of the brain. Although it wont release a visible chemical in the brain‚ doctors are able to see the networking effects and electro charges given off. For many of reasons music therapy is able to slow heart rates‚ reduce blood pressure along with
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individuals. Family interventions and therapy sessions have been known to help individuals and family members address and resolve certain unhealthy complications. Family therapy consists of a whole family gathering together to focus on an issue that distinctly impacts multiple people and not just one individual. This leads to a solution that has required the whole family to work together and to solve conflicts in the most beneficial way possible. Marriage and family therapy have shown great effectiveness
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The review of related literature in this chapter is composed of principles and discussions of facts about the side effects of radiation therapy to the cancer patients. The chapter begins with a brief history about radiology as a medical science‚ and radiation therapy as a form of medical treatment of diseases. Lastly it enumerates the side effects of radiation therapy and the risks associated with it. Brief History and Definitions of Radiology as a Medical Science In 1895 Roentgen began experiments
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Kargher Electroconvulsive therapy does it really work? Since its start of use in 1938‚ electroconvulsive therapy has been in much debate over its practice and effectiveness. Its inventor ladislas Meduna‚ suggested that by “changing the chemical composition of the brain” through ECT we could effectively treat schizophrenia
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Person-centered therapy (PCT)‚ which is also known as client-centered‚ non-directive‚ or Rogerian therapy‚ is an approach to counseling and psychotherapy that places much of the responsibility for the treatment process on the client‚ with the therapist taking a non directive role. Two primary goals of PCT are increased self-esteem and greater openness to experience. Some of the related changes that this form of therapy seeks to foster in clients include closer agreement between the client’s idealized
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Occupational Therapy is a Viable Part of Healthcare Occupational therapy is the practice of teaching how to do daily tasks as independently as possible along with hobbies and other activities a client wishes to do. This a very important stage of recovery for the patient’s well-being mentally and physically. These clients have been through a traumatic event such as a car wreck or have received a life changing diagnosis like parkinson’s disease. Occupational therapy should be a well-respected profession
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Life can change in a split second when an unanticipated injury or disease hinders someone’s normal daily life. Modern medicine‚ physicians and families can only do so much but physical therapy can help recoup the life many of us take for granted. It often isn’t until we lose something that we as humans realize what we had such as the value of our body’s ability to take us through each day. A physical therapist is the person who stays with a patient for the duration of the rehabilitation process
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Music therapy is an established health profession in which music is used within a therapeutic relationship to improve the physical and cognitive state of a patient. The specialized music therapist has one main goal with their client‚ to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a professional. ("American Music Therapy Association." What Is Music Therapy. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 10 Nov. 2015.) Music therapy can help reduce muscle tension‚ decrease anxiety‚ and help improve self-image
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Evidenced Based Research Activity Research Question Does occupational therapy enhance the treatment of Parkinson’s? Title of Article/Citation Occupational therapists use WII for Parkinson’s study. Level of Evidence --□ Level I –systematic random controlled trials‚ meta-analysis‚ adequate sample size □ Level II – Non-random controlled trials with a minimum of 2 groups; small sample size □ Level III – evidence from well designed trials without randomization‚ single group pre-post
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