Therapy

world filled with problems, disorders, chaos, and everything in between, our mental health is especially affected. Therapy is a great way to deal with these problems of everyday life. While there are different types of therapies to deal with an individual’s mental health issues, group therapy has shown to be very effective. While there are different types of groups, all group therapies have two things in common. They all possess therapeutic factors and go through a process within the group,…

required to undergo their own personal therapy before they become practitioners. Self-reflection is important in everyone’s daily life. Before a person becomes a therapist I think it is important to deal with any deep down problems they have, sometimes we don’t know that we have issues with something until it is discussed. Understanding one’s personal issues will help to increase a person’s self-understanding. A therapist who has undergone personal therapy will know what it is like to be a…

choose to reach out to was the “Therapy Dogs” which was taking place at Hedden Hall on November 29th (7pm-8pm). I was informed by this opportunity through my CA Adrianna Michell when I was telling her how stressed was feeling about school currently. During the conversation, she stated everything that I was currently feeling is normal. Furthermore, when she was in first year of undergraduate studies the service she had used to relax and forget about her worries was therapy dogs. Adrianna stated…

How a Physical Therapist in Idaho can Aid you Physical therapy covers an extensive array of services, consisting of all parts of the human body. It includes several manual hands-on techniques to give relief to the patients from chronic pain. This treatment is widely preferred as it does not include the use of surgical instruments, and addictive medications. Professionals offering the services of physical therapy in Idaho can aid the patients recover from injury/ surgeries to helping athletes…

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…

lives and how the patients enriched their life in return. This created in me or even strengthened, the already existing, the want to help people. As a physical therapist, I will be helping people, I will be participating in furthering the science of therapy, and along the way my patients will impact my life as well. Throughout the various jobs I've worked in the summers, I've come to the realization that I love interacting with people…

this course, there have been topics that have resonated with me. The first that comes to my mind revolves around contextual therapy model. While I was reading this, it became very clear to me that this is my preferred therapy as it is grounded in building and focusing on the relationship between the client and the helper. I really like that. A small part of me doesn't see therapy being successful unless there is that relationship there. The next idea or topic that resonated with me was when…

The therapeutic goal of Person-Centered therapy is to help clients achiev a greater degree of independence and integration. The focus is on the person and not the problem they are describing. By providing a climate conducive to the client’s self-actualization, the therapist assists clients in their growth process so they can better cope with problems as they come. In therapy, the client will recognize they have lost contact with themselves by using facades and realize there are more authentic…

Some states require physical therapists to continue their education in order to keep their license (“Physical Therapist”). It is important for physical therapists to continue their education, so they can keep abreast of their occupation. Physical therapy education is focused around a set of expected outcomes (Curtis “A Primer” 38). Physical therapists must have 24 contact hours or 2.4 Continuing Education Units (CEU) to be accrued during the licensing period. All therapists are required to…

My decision on a career in Physical Therapy has stemmed from a passion for helping others, a love of exercise, but most importantly; a personal hardship. I’ve always known that I would want to study in the medical field, but determining what profession I would enter arose from a tragedy. My mother has always enjoyed exercise as well, and has developed a love for running. Unfortunately, she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2014. She began to experience a foot drag on her left side, due to…