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How Art Therapy Helps Children and Adults with Special Needs: Benefits, Methods, and Getting Started
...But you don't know if it's legitimate clinical treatment, expensive recreational programming, or something...Therapy Is and What It's Not. Art therapy is a mental health profession where board-certified therapists...Is and What It's Not. Art therapy is a mental health profession where board-certified therapists use...
Medical > Psychiatry
The Changing Face of Special Needs Care: Occupational Therapy
...needs is a dynamic and evolving field. One of the treatment modalities making a substantial impact in bettering...benefits for people with developmental, physical or mental health concerns. Occupational Therapy: A Practice...people with developmental, physical or mental health concerns. Occupational Therapy: A Practice Shaping...
Health > Mental Health
Anger, Self-Destructive Tendencies, Depression, and Learning Disorders
...home, school, or social situations. The child may feel anger toward either school or home and release it when he is away from that situation. With treatment such as Books Neural Therapy™, children can release their normal, typical anger and prevent it from turning into something more serious. Self-destructive...
Health > Mental Health
IASO (Immature Adrenaline Systems Over-reactivity), AKA Aggressive Behavior
...Bipolar Disease, and that effective treatment of that primary diagnosis will therefore...community aggression is not part of most mental illnesses. However, mental illness...of most mental illnesses. However, mental illness can set the stage for aggression...triggered in the first place. IASO treatment uses adrenaline blockers ( alpha-blocker...
Health > Mental Health
Mindfulness Awareness-Avoidance
...what she needed and when she'd be home, stating that her husband had cancer and they were often not home during the day due to him needing frequent treatments. As she was leaving she mentioned something about how she puts something up against her door, so people can't look inside her house during the night...
Health > Mental Health
A Growing Epidemic for Kids: Help Your Child Stop Cutting
...cutting is associated with shame, the shock, anger and revulsion of family and friends can further isolate the cutter.Several teens from a local treatment facility gave some...
Health > Treatment
Are Meds Making Your Child Sick?
...in his new book, Are Your Meds Making You Sick? The most frequent problems associated with drugs tend to be gastro-intestinal bleeding, changes in mental status, and extremely low or high blood sugar. Patients with special needs can be even more prone to these issues. Gold says three out of four of these...
Health > Mental Health
Q&A with Dr. Kevin Ross Emery
Dr. Kevin Ross Emery discusses integrating East-West philosophies in ADD/HD treatment, its evolutionary aspect, and shifting its stigma.
Special Needs > General Special Needs
Understanding Reactive Attachment Disorder
...topic of Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) — a mental health disorder common among children who were...Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) — a mental health disorder common among children who were subject...misdiagnosing and subsequent counterproductive treatment of the disorder was the single biggest issue confounding...
Special Needs > Asperger Syndrome
Asperger Syndrome in Adults: Navigating a Late Diagnosis
...adapting your behavior to fit in, at significant cost to your energy and mental health. The diagnosis is validating. It explains why social interactions...adapting your behavior to fit in, at significant cost to your energy and mental health. The diagnosis is validating. It explains why social interactions that seem...
Social Engagement > Support Groups
Online vs. In-Person Support Groups: Which Format Is Right for Your Family?
...regardless of format. A 2011 meta-analysis in BMC Public Health found that peer support groups, whether online...or in-person, produce measurable improvements in mental health outcomes for caregivers and parents navigating...in-person, produce measurable improvements in mental health outcomes for caregivers and parents navigating...
News > Employment
How to Get a Federal Job with a Disability: A Complete Guide to Schedule A Hiring
...substantially limit one or more major life activities Psychiatric disabilities: mental health conditions documented by a licensed professional The definition...limit one or more major life activities Psychiatric disabilities: mental health conditions documented by a licensed professional The definition of "severe...