Addiction Therapy
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Motivational Interviewing: Drawing Out the Homeless
The sight of a bag lady or man pushing a grocery cart carrying their few worldly possessions is unnerving and all too common. On any given night in cities and towns across the U.S., the estimated number of individuals living on the streets is nearly 672,000. In the course of a single year, an estimated 1.5 million people use the homeless shelter system. Who are these people and why can’t they get off the streets? What’s being done to help them or get them to help themselves? The issue is a complex one and involves not only outreach but considerable effort to help draw out the homeless. One technique that is particularly effective is motivational interviewing. Continue Reading
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What to Do If You Are Have a Problem with Your Therapist
Entering treatment for drug or alcohol abuse includes participation in ongoing counseling and either individual or group therapy conducted by licensed substance abuse or addiction therapists. In fact, treatment is tailored to each client’s individual circumstances. There is no one-size-fits-all treatment program.
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Can Hypnosis Help with Addiction?
As researchers search for a cure for addiction, it’s tempting to look for a quick fix in the meantime. You may already have suffered through countless bouts of binge drinking, or a downward spiral caused by addiction to street drugs or prescription drugs. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just get hypnotized to stop your addiction? If hypnosis can help someone stop smoking, why not help someone quit alcohol and drugs? Continue Reading
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The Benefits of Yoga
By Leslie Thompson
The terms “downward facing dog” or “pigeon pose” may not a ring a bell to you, but for a large number of yoga enthusiasts, these terms are commonplace and elicit a calm and meditative reaction. There are a lot of misconceptions and preconceived notions about the practice, but what every yogi knows are the benefits yoga has on the body.
For individuals recovering from alcohol or drug addiction, transforming the body and the mind is essential in order to overcome an addiction. As more and more recovering addicts look for ways to change their past destructive lifestyles and look for alternative approaches to cope with life’s stresses, yoga may be the perfect complement to one’s more traditional therapy.
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Transactional Analysis
Developed by Dr. Eric Berne in the late 1950s, transactional analysis is a type of social psychology with applications in counseling, education, organizational development, and psychotherapy.
Transactional analysis, commonly referred to as TA, is based on these primary concepts:
1. People have three parts (or ego-states) to their personalities.
2. These ego-states converse with each other in transactions.
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Rational Emotive Therapy
Rational emotive therapy focuses on helping patients resolve behavioral and emotional problems. It was developed in the 1950s as one of the first types of cognitive behavior therapy, or CBT. Rational emotive therapy promotes the belief that when a person becomes upset or depressed, the emotions are caused by his or her own belief system and not the actual event that occurred.
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Psychoanalytic Therapy
Psychoanalytic therapy was developed by Sigmund Freud in the 1890s, and it is one of the most well-known forms of therapy in the world. Essentially, psychoanalytic therapy involves a therapist and a patient sitting down to chat about the patient’s life.
Psychoanalytic therapy, or psychoanalysis, is very intensive and time consuming, so patients should be aware going in that this type of therapy is not a quick fix for their problems.
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Family Therapy
Family therapy is a type of psychotherapy that deals with families and couples. The focus of family therapy is to monitor the changes and development of the interactions between family members or couples to improve the ways that people relate to one another. Overall, healthier, happier relationships are the goal of this type of therapy.
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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is a type of psychotherapy that was created to help patients deal with a variety of unpleasant memories. EMDR is most commonly used for trauma-induced disorders.
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Art Therapy
Art therapy is a type of psychotherapy that employs the use of a variety of art materials such as paints, markers, and chalk in the treatment of patients. In some cases, art therapy might also include the use of photography or other forms of visual art expression that may be helpful in allowing patients to tap into their creativity and self-expression.
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