While other therapies are being developed, tested and researched, (CBT) has evidence based research in being effective due to the flexibility of its interventions and the ease of adjustment to co-join other therapies to (CBT). According to research done by Leslie Swanson, cognitive behavior therapy techniques such as relaxation, restructuring, and re-scripting therapy aided in helping patients with PTSD to overcome insomnia, sleep disorders, and nightmares, which are common symptoms with PTSD (Swanson, 2009). More importantly, research identifies cognitive behavior therapy as a highly effective therapy to treat individuals who suffered from moderate depression (296.22) and have a dual diagnosis of substance abuse (Ruwaard, 2009, 215). (CBT) has also gained respect as a preferred therapy for helping those who abuse and are addicted to drugs. Kirby and Marlowe suggest that CBT has shown substantial gain in the field of substance abuse, due to its person centeredness and brief treatments.
St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital helps the children with cancer or other catastrophic diseases. They help with those that cannot afford treatments. St. Jude is a place where the parents of a child do not have to worry about money situations, or if they will be accepted due to their ethnicity or religion. There are around one hundred celebrities that are supporters of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Celebrities such as Alison Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried, Amber Valletta, Anna Kournikova, Antonio Banderas, Ashlee Simpson, Ashley Tisdale, Ashton Kutcher, Billy Bob Thornton, Bo Derek, Bret Michaels, Buzz Aldrin, Calista Flockhart, Carrie Underwood, Charlie
Health promotion doesn’t necessarily mean treating the disease or searching the globe for a new cure, it can mean to try and be as healthy and as comfortable as one person can for their own self. One strategy to help improve the Thomas’ quality of life is to provide emotional support to all of the family members. Emotional support for Mrs. Thomas will help improve her mood, which in turn will help with her everyday life and functionality. She will have a lot of questions and concerns for not only herself, but her family while she is still living and after. Emotional support for Mr. Thomas may help with his depression, and make him feel better about caring for his wife during her illness.
Shire Richwood, the manufacture of Adderall, clearly has a stake in whether or not their stimulant is prescribed. The organization hires doctors like Bill Dodson to promote their product, and donates money to organizations like CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder) to help raise ADHD awareness. They are making it all about the money, because they know a lot of people, especially kids, are being diagnosed with issues that will need their drug to fix it. I would questioned them about this, because do they really know the underlying side effects to their drug. Grant it that the drug corrects the issue at the moment, but what about later in life?
Steroids have been reported anecdotally to achieve success when given in pulse doses or low doses to minimize adverse effects. The benefits versus the toxicity of this therapy must be weighed carefully. More research is necessary to establish the safety and effectiveness of this therapy for vitiligo. A topical steroid preparation is often chosen first to treat localized vitiligo because it is easy and convenient for both doctors and patients to maintain the treatment. The results of therapy have been reported as moderately successful, particularly in patients with localized vitiligo and/or an inflammatory component to their vitiligo, even if the inflammation is subclinical.
A licensed massage therapist will lightly stroke and/or knead the painful muscles. This may increase blood flow and bring warmth to a stressed area. Because arthritis stressed joints are so sensitive, the therapist must be familiar with the problems of the disease. Some benefits that can be achieved by using massage therapy as a treatment for OA are: decreased pain and increased mobility; increased blood flow to areas of arthritis, bringing oxygen to help healing; flushing out of toxic inflammatory substance that can add to pain and swelling; and increased relaxation and a sense of well-being. The types of massage that can help to reduce pain and swelling with OA are: trigger point, reiki, shiatsu, swedish, and reflexology.
The management of the therapist’s counter transference, through the containment of the group’s projections, is related to positive therapeutic outcome. Self-awareness and self-care are crucial in counter transference management. Regular consultation with a co-therapist or supervisor/consultant can also be very useful. (Association, 2007) I have found it very difficult to research the effectiveness of a non personalised induction in hypnotherapy as all the evidence shows that personalised inductions are far more effective, the only time that it would be difficult to produce a personalised script is if you were to hold a group session or produce a CD or video to focus on a certain situation such as to stop smoking, fear of spiders etc. Personalised inductions are more effective as they treat each person as an individual, in order to do this you need to assess the client, it is important that you have to try to find the most effective way to communicate with your client so that they get the most benefit from the session, in order to do this you need to take into account the clients modalities, explained below.
Positive mental health includes the ability to understand and make sense of our surroundings, to be able to cope with change and to communicate effectively with other people. Mental health is therefore an essential component of our general health (Lester & Glasby 2010). It is however more difficult to define what is meant by mental illness. This is
A review of nursing interventions should plan for dealing with weight control, urges, physical cravings, and remarks from smoking friends. To help ease the passage through this stage, the clinician will reinforce “countering,” offering healthy substitutes and responses for past unhealthy habits. These positive reinforcers need not be expensive, but rewards boost self-esteem. People who reward themselves are more likely to succeed, and a positive cycle can be created. Ask the patient to set up a plan of rewards for big
Combined medication and behavioral treatment added little advantage overall, over medication alone, but combined treatment did result in more improved social skills, and parents and teachers judged this treatment more favorably. Both systematically applied medication (monitored regularly) and combined treatment were superior to routine community care, which often involved the use of stimulants. An important potential advantage for behavioral treatment is the possibility of improving functioning with reduced dose of stimulants. The current state of the empirical literature regarding the treatment of ADHD is such that at least five important questions cannot be answered. First, it cannot be determined if the combination of stimulants and psychosocial treatments can improve functioning with reduced dose of stimulants.