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Trauma

Counseling and Psychotherapy Sessions for Trauma

April 9, 2009

Counseling and Psychotherapy Sessions for Trauma: Many debate certain counseling techniques involved in trauma therapy that use de-briefing strategies, they argue that they can have a negative impact on trauma recovery.
Trauma Therapy from the Client’s Perspective
Ms. Burton’s own experience of therapy convinces her, for example, that trauma survivors don’t always make the best trauma therapists. [...]

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Reasons Why Purple hearts could be awarded for Post traumatic stress disorder?

March 12, 2009

Reasons why Purple hearts could be awarded for Post traumatic stress disorder?
As you continue to read this article you will notice how you begin to absorb this information.
Many years before Iraq and Afghanistan went to war, George Washington created the Purple Heart to honour troops who had been physically wounded in combat.
But with an increasing [...]

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Impact Economic Effects on Suicide Statistics

October 10, 2008

Impact Economic Effects on Suicide Statistics. Suicide statistics rise with the effects of economic depression. What is recession?  Recession 2008:  According to Wikipedia: The definition of a recession is;  ”a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, usually affecting; real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales.” A sustained [...]

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4 Good Reasons for Trauma Treatment Therapy.

October 6, 2008

Four Good Reasons why Trauma Treatment Therapy is Crucial when we experience Traumatic Events.
1. We need to express and process our strong emotions, if we are not allowed to do so, we learn to  repress these feelings and they can erupt years later, distorted and causing great confusion.
2. The ability to process these emotions can prevent difficulties in later life. Whereby we [...]

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Medication that Enhances Emotional Disorders

September 24, 2008

A medication that enhances learning, taken just before a psychotherapy or counseling therapy session, may aid cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) for anxiety disorders, say The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)funded researchers, who adapted the technique from studies in rats.
D-cycloserine, is used to “specifically enhance the efficacy of the emotional learning process that takes place in psychotherapy and hopefully [...]

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Psychotherapy helps Best Ever Rock Bands

September 12, 2008

If there existed a best ever rock band list, that consisted of the 100 greatest rock bands, then I would expect to see Metallica and Guns’n’Roses on that list. Who would you expect to see on the 100 greatest rock band list?
Did you know that Metallica, the world’s biggest heavy rock band, were widely ridiculed [...]

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New Hurricane Trauma Caused by Tropical Storm Fay

August 18, 2008

New hurricane: Tropical Storm Fay is poised to hit Florida as the current hurricane threat. Reports say that this potential new hurricane will reach Florida in the next day, after killing on its path through the Caribbean.
The current hurricane report states that storm fay’s death toll has been estimated at: Four people in the Dominican Republic. At least seven people were [...]

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identity theft complaint

July 28, 2008

Identities stolen can happen to anyone of us.We need to protect ourselves from identity scams, by adopting an identity theft check. “LifeLock“  reports that in 2006 over 193,000 people fell victim to identity theft in the United States and every 3 seconds someones identity is stolen.  
Ask periodically for a copy of your credit report. Your credit report [...]

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“Critical Incident Stress Debrief”

July 2, 2008

“Critical Incident Stress Management” enables emergency workers to cope with the trauma and stress’s that their professions may cause and to help them function healthier and also, to move on with their lives. “Critical Incident Stress Management” is not  counseling or psychotherapy, nor is it a substitute for these therapies. It offers emergency workers the opportunity to off- load how they feel about the situations [...]

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‘What is REBT’ Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy?

June 12, 2008

REBT or Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy was originally founded by Albert Ellis. Basically a process of a rational theory. Rationalising our thinking. Click on the link and watch a video by Jeffrey explaining and demonstrating the process of REBT.

Albert Ellis 27.09.1913 –died 24.07.2007 an American psychologist who in 1955 developed REBT Rational Emotive Behavior [...]

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