in Health Care 260). Treatment goals need to be established‚ or the patient will not recover much (Encyclopedia 8 and 9). Physical therapists can have PTA’s‚ or assistants. They clean and prepare the work area for when the next patient arrives for therapy (Careers in Health Care 264). Many people stay in this job for over five years. There is a lot to learn‚ and a therapist can do this job for life. It also works as a good part time job (Career Cruising 2). Physical therapists work around eight to
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Laughter Therapy “Laughter is the best medicine!” We’ve all heard that before‚ but is it true? Studies show 20-25 minutes of laughter every day is healthy for the body. Laughing also helps with depression‚ cancer patients‚ making our hearts healthy. It also strengthens our immune systems‚ relieves stress‚ helps us look younger and so much more. Laughing Therapy relates to positive thinking. Most diseases are related to stress‚ tension depression. When we have tension‚ we start various
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Professor Yankee 11/19/12 Music Therapy Why do people use this type of therapy exactly? Well music has been used as medicine for thousands of years and there’s a growing field of health care known as music therapy‚ which uses music to heal. Those who practice music therapy find benefits in using it to help cancer patients‚ children with ADD‚ and others‚ and even hospitals are beginning to use music therapy to help with pain management‚ to help ward off depression‚ to promote movement‚ to
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Pregnancy In this journal‚ I have chosen my friend’s mother‚ Mrs Weng to be interviewed as she could still recall her process of pregnancy to parenthood. After Mrs Weng found out that she was pregnant‚ she was very happy as they finally have a baby of their own. However‚ her parents were very worried and they were not very much excited as she is the youngest in the family‚ thus pregnancy seems to be normal to them. During the first three months‚ Mrs Weng felt nausea‚ fatigue‚ and she loses her appetite most
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Reality Therapy Founders of Theory: William Glasser Nature of the Person • Our brain functions as a control system. It continually monitors our feelings to determine how well we are doing in our lifelong effort to satisfy these needs. Whenever we feel bad‚ one or more of these five needs is unsatisfied. • We are not born as blank slates waiting to be externally motivated by forces in the world around us. We are born with five genetically encoded needs: survival‚ love
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learner must: 1. Understand complementary therapies that can be used by users of health and social care services 2. Understand the role of complementary therapies in relation to orthodox treatment 3. Understand the role of complementary therapies in maintaining health and wellbeing Grade Grading criteria Pass P1 – explain the factors which affect access to complementary therapies (IE3; IE4; CT2; CT4) P2 – explain how the use of complementary therapies is regulated P3 – explain the principles
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Traditional therapies may fail to help adolescents with depression. Adolescent and their resistance to therapy is so strong. However‚ if the therapist enters the adolescent’s depressive world view by offering art as a means of communication‚ there is a great possibility of creating some alternatives. Art therapy provides practical treatment for adolescents‚ giving them another lens for viewing their perceptions through their own illustrations and narratives. Because adolescents tend to act out their
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The Path of Respiratory Therapy Introduction About a year ago‚ I came home from work one night and walked into the kitchen to where my mother was standing. There was a feeling of uneasiness and the panic began to clench my stomach. She looked so sad‚ so stressed; maybe it was the frizzy hair‚ the bags beneath her eyes‚ the way her back slouched in a low negative curve‚ or her eyes. Her eyes looked at me before she turned them away‚ but in that fragment of a second‚ it’s almost like I could look
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Gestalt Therapy PSYU-501 February 13‚ 2012 Gestalt Therapy Gestalt therapy was founded by Frederick (Fritz) and Laura Perls in the 1940s. It instructs the client on the phenomenological method which is the theory that says behavior is determined by the way the person perceives reality rather than by objective external reality. This therapy method is an influential preference compared to the two chief therapeutic methods‚ psychoanalysis and behavioral therapy. This therapy combines the
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The benefits of hydroxyurea therapy in sickle cell anemia are extensive and well established‚ and were first demonstrated by the Multicenter Study of Hydroxyurea in Sickle Cell Anemia‚ a double blind‚ placebo controlled trial in 299 adults with sickle cell anemia. The clinical trial‚ which lasted for 21 months‚ showed that patients with sickle cell anemia treated with hydroxyurea had dramatically fewer painful episodes than those who received placebos. Firstly‚ among the 299 adults studied at 21
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