Psychological therapies improve life for children with post-traumatic stress disorder
Children suffering post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result of traumatic events, including child abuse, may benefit from psychological therapies, according to a review published in The Cochrane Library. In the first systematic review of PTSD in young people, researchers found that children and teenagers diagnosed with PTSD showed signs of improvement up to three [...]
The Trouble With Talk Therapy
Getty Images In a recent Sunday’s New York Times article, a psychotherapist with a freshly hung shingle describes the challenges of earning clients in a market crowded with professionals willing to listen, but with a dwindling number of patients. Her solution? Turning to a “branding consultant” who advises her, among other things, to sell herself [...]
Dream symbols could help in psychotherapy
Dream images could provide insights into people’s mental health problems and may help with their treatment, according to a psychology researcher from the University of Adelaide. Dr Lance Storm, a Visiting Research Fellow with the University of Adelaide’s School of Psychology, has been studying dream symbols (or “archetypes”) and their meanings, as described by the [...]
7th World Congress for Psychotherapy
25 -29 August 2014 Durban, South Africa Conference will be an encounter of western traditions in psychotherapy with the traditions of African healing and also the up-to-date information about the development of psychotherapy in all continents. We want to show the research findings as well as the different psychotherapy school approaches, the disturbance-focused treatment as [...]
Phone-Based Psychotherapy Helps Depression, at Least in the Short Term
Psychotherapy is one of the more effective ways to treat depression, but there’s a hurdle: getting people seek out and stick with care. A new study suggests that for some patients, receiving therapy by telephone, instead of face-to-face on the therapist’s couch, could be a solution. In the most definitive study to date comparing face-to-face [...]
French autistic kids mostly get psychotherapy
LONDON – In most developed countries, children with autism are usually sent to school where they get special education classes. But in France, they are more often sent to a psychiatrist where they get talk therapy meant for people with psychological or emotional problems. Things are slowly changing, but not without resistance. Last month, a [...]
Work-Focused Psychotherapy Can Help Employees Return to Work Sooner
WASHINGTON—Employees on sick leave with common mental health disorders such as depression and anxiety fully returned to work sooner when therapy deals with work-related problems and how to get back on the job, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association. Employees who received this therapy and returned to work sooner did not [...]
An Experiential Approach to PTSD by a Neuro-Linguistic Psychotherapist With the Use of Metaphors
Index Part I aims to give a generalised understanding to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and part II will give a concise description of the approach to remove symptoms that my client experienced within to the PTSD. The material has been compiled from my own experience as a psychotherapist within the psychotherapeutic relationship and from my [...]
