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Counseling psychology is a health care provider and general practice of professional psychology. Counseling psychology main focus is on people’s function in all ages of the relationship and also in their personal life. This field of psychology addresses physical health concerns, social, work, and emotional problems that individuals can have in different stages of their life. Counseling psychology focuses on the stress is that people may have and also on other issues which can be more severe. A…

1997). The way the brain fills the gaps between the inputs suggests how we experience the world is greatly influenced by our individual past and present experiences (see Baars, 1997; Galotti; 2013). This tendency may help us understand some of the therapy clients’ experience and relationship with the world. Comprehension of ourselves and the environment we find ourselves in are products of our cognitive inputs and unconsciousness. The unconscious process helps us to experience the world as…

While Depression is a word often thrown around by a vast majority of people to describe a current, but ultimately ephemeral and temporary change in mood, it is much more. It represents a clinical health concern for many people worldwide. Understanding for what depression actually is is growing recently, but many still see it only as a sluggish laziness afflicting millions of their coworkers and family members (Oyama & Piotrowski 2015). But when that lazy Sunday blues causes thoughts and even…

Hi Kanwal, Behavioral change does not happen all at once, the ability to sustain change is the key to successfully promote health (Crist & Marocco, 2016). Physical therapists take the role as health promoter through education and employing strategies necessary to achieve positive health outcomes (American Physical Therapy Association, 2016). However, given the challenge of making a lifestyle change, the positive benefits gained often diminished after the active intervention period (Ory, Smith,…

Gender dysphoria, also known as gender identity disorder, is a condition which “involves a conflict between a person’s physical or assigned gender and the gender with which he/she/they identify” (1). People with gender dysphoria may feel significant distress and are more likely to experience depression because they feel a disconnect with their bodies and are unable to function with the correlated norms of their gender (1 &2). Trans genders may behave as their true selves to counter act the…

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Music Therapy Imagine going through a horrifying struggle, a nightmare that just will not end, that is where music therapy should step in and it is very helpful. Why is music therapy a positive tool to heal the body? Music therapy can help with fighting stress, finding comfort and even helps to manage pain (Vann). On the contrary,“Music therapy uses music as a tool to help people with basic skills and motor” (Robinson). Music therapy has a spectacular amount of positive effects, it is extremely…

due to continued risk factor management, increased aspirin usage, and advances in radiological studies such as computer tomography (CT) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanning. Annually, approximately 795,000 Americans are diagnosed with a stroke (American Stroke Association (ASA), ndb). Stroke is the third leading cause of death and is the leading…

is the key to understanding post-traumatic stress disorder. Trauma is an overwhelming event that takes away a persons safety, it creates a sense of helplessness and it continues to affect ones perception of reality. According to the American Psychological Association, “Trauma is an emotional response to a terrible event like an accident, rape or natural disaster.” (APA, 2013) Any form of trauma that results in lasting emotional damage can be categorized as PTSD. Children can develop PTSD if…

designed to treat not just the physical symptoms of addiction, but the emotional, mental, and even spiritual aspects. These treatment methods include: Physical health is improved by exercise in the wilderness, such as hiking, camping, martial arts, yoga, rope courses, gardening, and learning vital nutritional information Spiritual heal is promoted individually, by allowing the participant to adhere to a spiritually-minded approach (like 12-step), meditation therapy, mindfulness, vision quests,…