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Therapeutic Uses of Laughter and Humor

that this may not be far from the truth (Provine, 2000). There are clearly two parts to the view of laughter as a therapeutic t...

Overview of EMDR Therapy

EMDR therapists assert that the treatment is suitable for a wide range of disorders; that it is much quicker than other forms of...

Aspects of Family Therapy

to the position of trying to improve the clients ability to change and control themselves, self-organization also lined to circula...

ARDS and Prone Ventilation

The causes of ARDS are not fully understood, but there are two main types of injury which can cause it. In the first, there is a...

Overview of Dolphin Therapy

dolphins could provide a piece to a perplexing medical puzzle that has long been missing. They can, these dolphin aficionados mai...

Alternative Therapy Represented by Art Therapy

Art Therapy Association, 2003). Art therapy typically is used for and is effective for treatment of those who are impaired develop...

Examination of CAM Therapies

reduce discomfort following surgery (NCCAM, 2004). Use of CAM has been controversial in the medical community, especially...

Hormone Replacement Therapy's Risks and Rewards

hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, has its own risks associated with it (Hormone Replacement Therapy, 2002). Therefore, it is i...

Osteoporosis Interventions

While it is important to address estrogen levels in osteoporosis, there are other considerations as well. Some women...

Cognitive Therapy and Addict Personality Characteristics

In seven pages this report examines group therapy as addiction treatment in a consideration of how cognitive therapy can assist in...

Analyzing Characters and Setting in Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes

living in a small Kansas town (Not Without Laughter). Its a sad story and tells of his rather slow and sad awakening to the reali...

Play Therapy and Behavior

allowed for recognition of human thought as an "integral part of human behavior" (OConnor, 1991, p. 26). Prior to this point, beha...

Comparison of Intimacy Based and Conventional Sex Therapies

"do it right," all of their problems would disappear. The focus was, as is so often the case, on the "mechanical" functions of the...

Wound Closure: Vacuum Assisted Closure Therapy (V.A.C.)

a foam dressing, which is placed in the cavity of the wound (Medica, 2000). The other end of the tube is attached to a canister th...

A Review of the Novel Bone and its Relationship to Multicultural Family Therapy

This 6 page essay explores the novel by Fae Myenne Ng in relation to Multicultural Family Therapy. The Chinese American family fe...

An Examination of Borderline Personality Disorder

process works. The job of developing a mathematical equation can be quite complex because there has to be some idea of the nature...

The Application of Physical Therapy to Support Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation

The Application of Physical Therapy to Support Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation. 5 pages. 4 sources cited. This pape...

Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes

In ten pages this paper discusses Langston Hughes' 1930 novel debut and analyzes the author's use of speech to convey 'black humor...

Intervention Therapy's Causes and Roles in Reactive Attachment Disorder

In seven pages this paper discusses reactive attachment disorder and the effects of family intervention therapy. Eight sources ar...

Various Family Therapy Approaches

In five pages sample patients based upon the characters featured in the Twice in a Lifetime film are considered in an examinaiton ...

The Client-Centered Therapy Theories of Carl Rogers

the Teachers College was the international center for the "dissemination of Deweys educational philosophy" (Gordon, Feb 1997, p. 7...

The Tenets of Carl Rogers' Client-Centered Approach To Therapy

attitudinal conditions into their own practice without abandoning their own therapeutic orientations. It also offered the opportun...

The History and Uses of Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine

This 8 page paper gives the history behind traditional Chinese herbal medicine, and its use in today's society. The writer argues ...

Schools and Reality Therapy Uses

Dr. William Glasser's reality therapy is considered in a research paper of five pages that focuses on the school applications of c...

Group Therapy, Family Options, and Breast Cancer

In seventy five pages this research paper provides a comprehensive overview of current literature relating to mental health with r...

Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov

In five pages this paper analyzes illusions and perceptual reality as featured in one of the lesser known works by novelist Vladim...

The ‘Philosophy’ of Massage Therapy

long and interesting historical evolution, and its origins are largely responsible for the reluctance of allopathic medical profes...

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Used in the Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

a result, more diagnoses have been made (Grinage, 2003). It is now something that is also associated with trauma stemming from chi...

Art Therapy And ADHD - Research Proposal

environments? Bias Question that will be generated: If an ADHD child can focus for 1 hour of art therapy, does that provide suffi...

Person-Centered Counseling

are at the moment limited in what they can achieve for themselves. That something might be external to them rather than internal. ...