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Students find love and encouragement from emotional support animals. Many animals are trained to help their owners live with physical, mental and emotional disabilities, and Kansas State is committed to allowing students with disabilities to use support animals on campus, whether they're service dogs, emotional support cats or something in between. Unlike normal, everyday pets, K-State allows support animals to stay in university housing with their owners. Mikaila Woods, resident assistant in…

It is easier to crate train your therapy dog than you might think. Dogs, foxes, coyotes, wolves - all like to use a den for sleeping and caring for their young. Your therapy dog is no different. If you introduce your dog to crate training correctly he will feel secure in his crate. It quickly becomes a place to go for peace and quiet, a place he can go to get away from noise and stress. It should be respected as such. If you have children teach them to leave the dog alone when he is in his crate…

1.0 Rogers’ Theory of Therapy Jerold Bozarth, the well-known person-centred reader and the president of Person-Centre International from University of Georgia, USA, in his article ‘Nondirectivity’ in the theory of Carl R. Rogers: An unprecedented premise’ (2012) defined that “In Roger’s theory of therapy, nondirectivity refers to the therapist’s actions, attitudes, and demeanor that maximize the opportunity for the client/participant to direct her/his own life (…) the client is the director of…

Introduction Pompe Disease is also referred to as GAA Deficiency, Glycogenesis Type II, and Glycogen Storage Disease Type II. It is a lysosomal storage disorder that must be passed down by both parents due to the fact that it is a recessive mutation in genes (Type II, 2014). As a lysosomal disorder, Pompe Disease is the inability of lysosomes to breakdown glycogen into glucose and causes the glycogen to build up inside the lysosome (Pompe, 2010). The glycogen build up has specific effects on…

State Education Department (2012) claimed “ten visits begin when the first treatment is provided and ends when the patient is discharged from care after a maximum of ten visits or thirty days” (para. 9). Health care plans that restricts physical therapy care to sixty or ninety day periods orders/forces a random limit on recovery. According to New York State Education Department (2012), “other limitations, such as insurance reimbursement or work place policies may restrict treatment being…

Knowing your therapist before starting therapy can cut out months of searching for a good match. This allows the client to get effective treatment, and as a result, recover faster. On the other hand dual relationships can have many impediments that slow down progress made in therapy. Sometimes having dual relationships can impair the path to recovery. The case of having your teacher as a therapist might limit what you say in therapy. If you are feeling overwhelmed by school work or are…

In the field of Human Services it is important to become comfortable when you are working with clients that are culturally different than yourself. The agency I am working at IDEA there clientele base provides a wide range of diversity. Although I am mainly at the Brighton location, once a month I do hours in the Denver office. The majority of client’s I deal with at the agency are Mexican American; African American and European (White), Asian and a few clients that represent the LGBT community.…

previously overlooked. I found that the more I found out about psychotherapy the more I began to understand that different clients need different forms of help. Therapy is not a one size fits all; it is about catering the method to fit that if the client. At the beginning of this class I was very skeptical about the idea of counseling and therapy due to media influence, person experience, and other outside sources. The first week of class an assignment was handed out. The assignment was to take…

thousands of children are born with birth defects and need to learn to adapt. Any kind of injuries or diseases need to be tended to by someone who specializes in restoring normal body functions which would be a licensed physical therapist. Physical therapy is the treatment of injuries or diseases of the muscles and/or joints with exercises, massages or medicine. There are five different kinds of physical therapists; orthopedic, geriatric, neurological, cardiopulmonary and pediatric. Orthopedic…

respond to an initial trial of psychological treatments. The U.S. guidelines developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend the first-line use of pharmacotherapy, preferably combined with behavioral therapies, for school-aged children and adolescents with ADHD, but only behavioral therapies for preschool-aged children Wrong treatment or decision could make the child suffer even more in the future or affect the adult to rely on the medication depending the severity when diagnosed.…