are being pursued‚ group therapy is emerging as a treatment of choice for child sexual abuse victims for a number of reasons (p. 2)”. While Group therapy is not the only way to help a child that has been sexually abused‚ there are many beneficial gains from group therapy. While individual counseling‚ and a strong social support group is most helpful for a child through all of the stages of healing‚ group therapy is also beneficial to the child‚ in many stages. Group therapy can help to educate‚ find
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in self reports of PTSD‚ anxiety‚ and depression were examined before and after VR graded exposure therapy (VR-GET). VR-GET treatment has been known to improve PTSD symptoms and this study concluded significant reductions in those PTSD and anxiety. However‚ changes in depression and other measures of neuropsychological functioning were not significant‚ hinting that its benefits may be narrowly focused. Though this is the case‚ there is a wide range of its effects on people and while it closes off one
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Ethics in Physical Therapy One of the most rapidly growing occupations in the United States today is Physical Therapy. The United States Department of Labor has projected 23‚000 unfilled physical therapist positions in the year 2000 and a lack of qualified physical therapists to fill them (www.apta.org). While Physical Therapy grows rapidly‚ questions of ethics in this field have also grown in large quantities. Physical therapy is the treatment of disease through physical means‚ including
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The family therapy movement spread its roots in the mid-1900s. The theory behind this approach was that the psychological symptoms did not solely arise within an individual‚ but were a result of the dysfunctional families that an individual lives in (Pomerantz‚ 2013). This approach is an evidence-based and it is being recognized in therapeutic interventions like the other more known therapeutic approaches. The following paper is based on explaining family therapy from the various other therapeutic
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expectations come with being a doctoral student. There are times when you feel that there are a multitude of eyes on you (judging‚ evaluating‚ pushing‚ and bringing you down). The truth to that varies from person
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Project Overview The ongoing project that my partner‚ Alicia Buettner‚ and I are focused on is that of trying to incorporate a collaborative class between the physical and occupational therapy students at the University of Findlay that specializes on the use of prosthetic rehabilitation equipment in therapy. This project is motivated by the need for experience and knowledge of what each therapy major has to offer one another when working simultaneously in the healthcare field while still in a positive
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This study was used to prove whether Dialectical Behavior Therapy would increase active coping skills‚ reduce passive coping skills and decrease self injury in people with Borderline Personality Disorder. Active coping is defined as any effort to fix the cause of distress‚ such as changing negative thought processes. Passive coping is the use of maladaptive skills to temporarily relieve pain and ignore the root of the problem. In this study‚ there were 19 participants that consisted of 16 women and
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Dolphin assisted therapy (DAT) is a highly controversial topic in the medical world. Is it medicine or simply recreation? Whatever you might believe‚ you cannot deny the fact that dolphins are loving and nurturing mammals with the ability to show compassion. Along with that ability for compassion‚ some may claim that there is actual science‚ which proves that interactions with dolphins have helped to treat many patients. Most of the patients in dolphin assisted therapy are children with autism‚ Down’s
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PSY F370 Drugs and Behavior Fall 2013 November 9‚ 2013 Opioid Replacement Therapy Medications used for opiate addiction work as agonists‚ antagonists or utilize a combination of both actions. By definition‚ agonists cause a chemical action by binding to cell receptors and mimicking the action of naturally occurring substances such as neurochemicals. Antagonists also attach to cell receptor sites but instead of causing an action‚ they block the receptor from being stimulated by a target substance
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Occupational therapy interventions involve various approaches such as health promotion‚ remediation‚ maintenance‚ and modification ("Dementia and the Role of Occupational Therapy"‚ n.d.). The Occupational therapy practitioner can enrich their client’s lives by helping them maintain strength so the client can perform the activities that are meaningful to them. They may also work with the client’s restoration of physical skills such as endurance‚ the range of motion and strength. Occupational therapy practitioner
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