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Yoga Can Enhance Therapy
By Mary Lansing, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
Yoga is about healing the splits inside us, the places of separation and dislocation. Coupled with psychotherapy, it can become a pathway toward self-study that flows into an individual's everyday activities, allowing her to focus on her body rather than disturbing thoughts that keep her rooted in old complexes.
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Introduce Your Practice to Local Trauma Recovery Agencies
Trauma recovery is an everpresent need in most communities, e.g., natural disasters, family violence, medical crises. The agencies that typically have first contact with those who have been traumatized include police, fire departments, hospitals, ambulance companies, car insurance companies, personal injury attorneys, chiropractors, and auto body repair shops. To help these potential referral sources become familiar with you and your services, introduce yourself to key department heads and provide them with information about your practice, professional background and area(s) of specialization.
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Hypnotherapy: A Powerful Healing Tool
The main difference between a therapeutic trance and the kind of trance we happen to find ourselves in when we’re “zoning out”, is that in therapy, a client is intentionally guided into a trance state, and it is used for a very specific, healing purpose.
Forgiveness
By Michelle Gottlieb, Psy.D., MFT
I have worked with many couples where there has been infidelity. This is a very difficult area. We do not want to forgive when we have been hurt and betrayed. We often want to lash out back at our partner who has so wounded us. The betrayal of the marriage vows is no small injury. The marriage can recover, but it takes a great deal of work. Trust is extremely difficult to regain.
Defeating Desperation
By Libby Kessman, LCSW
How many people go about their lives feeling unfulfilled, empty, lonely, left out, and angry about their situations? Sometimes someone may know what he needs to do but has difficulty putting these actions into effect, while others are stymied by roadblocks they are experiencing in their lives.
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Alcohol & Brain Injury: A Bad Mix
If you have experienced a traumatic brain injury, you may want to think twice about uncorking that bottle of wine or cracking open that can of beer. Drinking any amount of alcohol after acquiring a brain injury (either from an accident or a medical impairment such as a stroke or aneurysm) can worsen problems associated with your injury.
New Approach to Reducing Suicide Attempts Among Depressed Teens
Youth who attempt suicide are particularly difficult to treat because they often leave treatment prematurely, and no specific interventions exist that reliably reduce suicidal thinking and behavior (suicidality). In addition, these teens often are excluded from clinical trials testing depression treatments.
What are the medical consequences of drug addiction?
Individuals who suffer from addiction often have one or more accompanying medical issues, including lung and cardiovascular disease, stroke, cancer, and mental disorders. Imaging scans, chest x-rays, and blood tests show the damaging effects of drug abuse throughout the body.
Citalopram No Better Than Placebo Treatment for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
"Parents of children with autism spectrum disorders face an enormous number of treatment options, not all of which are research-based," said NIMH Director Thomas R. Insel, M.D. "Studies like this help us to better understand which treatments are likely to be beneficial and safe."
Questions Raised About Stimulants and Sudden Death
Stimulant medications are widely used to treat children with ADHD. The medications help reduce hyperactivity and impulsivity and improve the ability of affected children to focus and learn. Research has shown that stimulants can also have effects on the cardiovascular system, for example, raising blood pressure and heart rate. There have also been reports of sudden deaths in children receiving the medications, prompting the FDA to direct drug manufacturers to inform consumers of possible risks of stimulant medications in children and adolescents with known pre-existing heart problems.
Brain Emotion Circuit Sparks as Teen Girls Size Up Peers
What is going on in teenagers' brains as their drive for peer approval begins to eclipse their family affiliations? Brain scans of teens sizing each other up reveal an emotion circuit activating more in girls as they grow older, but not in boys.
Web-based Programs Encourage Safer Sex Behaviors Among Men at Risk for HIV/AIDS
A single-session, online, multimedia intervention effectively reduced risky sexual behaviors among young men who have sex with men, a group at high risk for HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections.
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