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According to Corey & Corey (2012) mental health counselors plays a vital part in society as there has always been a need to make an impact or be the one to make a difference in someone else’s life. This is a very challenging career and it does not always end with positive results, but it is an opportunity to help these mental health patients. It can be challenging in that some of these individuals have to want your help and some are simply not interested in changes. This is why some are…

Music Therapy is a study proving that music can help stimulate the brain. It helps many medical problems such as high blood pressure, rapid heartbeat, depression, sleepiness and so much more. There is not actually any proof that music therapy can cure disorders such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Parkinson’s, or Alzheimer’s and Dementia, but medical experts do believe it can reduce some of the symptoms, aid healing, and physical movement. It gives these patients a little more hope and…

Like all types of therapy, there are several advantages and disadvantages to Group Therapy. While most of the disadvantages revolve around similar issues and are few, there are far more qualitative advantages. Ultimately, the effectiveness of Group Therapy and its demand will revolve around the individual group members` needs psychologically. To be specific, while group members are learning to heal from their condition, it is apparent that each individual faces their own internal conflicts to…

discuss their loss, ominous vulnerability. Mildred was going through cumulative grief or ‘grief overload’- This is the experience of suffering a recurring loss before one has grieved the initial loss (Haley, 2017) In broad terms Person-centered Care Therapy is focusing care on the needs of the ‘person’ rather than the needs of the service (Royal College of Nursing, 2015). In modern times, it has been the established paradigm that people who need health care are not just content to sit back and…

The process of animal therapy alters between each program and animal. Typically, sessions involving horses and dolphins will be held outside while ones with dogs and domesticated animals occur either inside or out. Correspondingly, sessions vary in frequency, fluctuating between eight to ten weeks or even 12 months (Ward, Whalon, and Rusnak 2191). Before the lesson begins, tests and interviews with parents and teachers are completed to determine how severe the child’s autism is and the amount of…

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…