Laughter Therapy - An Effective Treatment Almost all of us have heard that "Laughter is best Medicine!" How true is this statement? A study conducted shows that 20-25 minutes of laughter every day is healthy for the body. This can make you feel fresh‚ energetic and young for the whole day. What makes us laugh? When we laugh‚ the zygomatic major muscle is stimulated and 15 facial muscles contracted. In the meantime‚ the epiglottis partly closes the larynx and air intake becomes irregular. A noise
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Public Speaking March 8‚ 2013 Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about radiation therapy. Central Idea: To clearly understand radiation therapy‚ you must know about the different types and side effects. Introduction During my life‚ I have seen how harsh cancer can be. It has took a toll of many people’s lives and changed families all over. I have witnessed it first hand as it has affected my family and has taken people from me who were very important. Experiencing these happenings at a
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meditation because I know very little about it yet its one of the most popular forms of complimentary therapy known today. I hope to find information on these two topics from as much secondary sources as possible‚ including books‚ websites‚ documentaries etc. I also hope to include at least one primary source of information for each topic. An interview‚ or survey will be my favourable approach for finding a primary source of information on this subject. TOPIC 1: AROMATHERAPY HISTORY The information
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Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disorder where the body’s own immune system perceives the body as a foreign object and attacks it. According to the Lupus Foundation of America‚ it is estimated that approximately five million people worldwide have a form of lupus. It is one of the most deadly‚ and insidious disease today. Many patients experience years of generalized fatigue and pain before a diagnosis can be made; moreover‚ it has the potential to affect all body systems
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Dance therapy is a type of psychotherapy that uses movement to further the social‚ cognitive‚ emotional‚ and physical development of the individual. Dance therapists work with people who have many kinds of emotional problems‚ intellectual deficits‚ and life-threatening illnesses. They are employed in psychiatric hospitals‚ day care centers‚ mental health centers‚ prisons‚ special schools‚ and private practice. They work with people of all ages in both group and individual therapy. Some also engage
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therapy in the United States effective? There are many types of therapy in the United States such as psychoanalysis ‚ psychodynamic therapy ‚ cognitive ‚ behavior therapy ‚ interpersonal therapy. psychodynamic therapy is some time called psychoanalysis lite You may not dig deep as in psychoanalysis but the treatment still focuses on the unconscious ‚personal development ‚ and the relationship between therapist and patient. cognitive therapy is geared toward solving immediate problems it is highly
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Gestalt Therapy Gestalt Therapy I. Summary and Integration of Major Concepts Founded by Frederick (Fritz) and Laura Perls in the 1940 ’s‚ Gestalt therapy is a phenomenological - existential methodology which emphasizes experience and experimentation. Gestalt is a German term that means a "complete pattern or configuration" (p. 112). Though there are many modalities and styles in Gestalt therapy‚ it is holistic in its approach uniting mind‚ body‚ and feeling (p. 112). Some concepts at the core
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(2013)‚ enumerates that Gestalt is an arranged entity that is full and professed as having increased to a level that is beyond its total outcome. On the other hand‚ Gestalt therapy is a phenomenological existential notion that was introduced by Frederick and Laura Perls back then in the 1940s (Koffka‚ 2013). The purpose of the therapy is to enumerate to the user strategies of know-how based on assumptions‚ feeling and distinguished from interpreting preexisting outlooks. The purpose of the essay is to
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Freedman‚ J.‚ & Combs‚ G. (1996). Narrative therapy: The social construction of preferred realities. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. White‚ M. & Epston D. (1990). Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Gilligan‚ S.G. & Price‚ R. (1993). Therapeutic Conversations. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. Chrzastowski‚ S.K. (2011). A narrative perspective on genograms: Revisiting classical family therapy methods. doi: 10.1177/1359104511400966 2011 16:
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Gene Therapy What is it? If genes don’t produce the right protein or don’t produce it correctly a person can have a genetic disorder. Gene therapy is an experimental technique that involves the transfer of a working copy of a gene into a cell to repair or replace a faulty gene so it is able to produce functioning proteins again. There are several approaches. The most common one is to insert a normal gene to replace the non-functional gene. Another approach is to swap a non-functional
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