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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a famous ailment of the 21st century. The problem is not new but improvements in mental health have brought treating it to the fore.
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Counseling and Psychotherapy
A client can expect a counseling and psychotherapy practitioner to make use of several common methods used during a therapy session.
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Mourning for Justice
To mourn the dead of war immediately after eighteen years of hidden catafalques is a new challenge to democratic nations.
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Secondary Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Secondary post-traumatic stress disorder may have been the cause of Maj. Nidal Hasan's violent actions at Ft. Hood. Others in the U.S. military are at risk.
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What is a Mental Health Counselor?
Trusting, empathic, genuine, accepting, open minded, intelligent, and competent, these words describe most professional mental health counselors and psychologists.
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Stress and Nervous Breakdown Explained
Stress breakdown, nervous breakdown, and mental breakdown refer to the same crippling disorder. Falling Apart - Living with Stress Breakdown is a book that can help!
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Online Support Groups
The therapeutic nature and exchange of information offered by online support groups is beneficial and life affirming to its participants.
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Are Grief and Depression The Same?
Grieving is a normal and natural process that people experience when they go through any kind of loss. Determining when grief has moved to depression can be challenging.
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How to Deal with Toxic People
Toxic people come in all shapes and sizes and can be co-workers, family members and friends. They can often be characterized as emotional vampires.
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Choosing The Right Counselor
Relationships are not required for most services, but counseling is different. Counselors want to know their clients. Shouldn't their clients want to know them?
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How to Handle a School Bully
School bullies are nothing to laugh at or dismiss as harmless malcontents. The effects of bullying at school can have severe, lasting effects on passive bullied students
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Setting Goals in the Counseling Process
People often enter counseling without a clear goal in mind. The person simply knows they don't feel well, are confused or are suffering in some way. Goals come next.
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Group Work With Mandated Clients
Working with mandated clients differs greatly from working with clients who are attending sessions at their own will.
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What Happens During the First Session of Therapy
The first psychotherapy session with a mental health provider can be more unnerving than the issue bringing you to therapy. There are a few common elements to expect.
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How You Know When It's Time to Say Goodbye
Ending a friendship can be hard but bad habits of behavior between friends can make it necessary. How do you tell when it's bad enough? Is it worth it to walk away?
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Providing Professional Counseling Services
Possessing basic counseling skills is needed for being a professional counselor, having a successful counseling career, and providing high-quality counseling services.
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How to Use MySpace in Counseling
MySpace, Facebook, and other social networking sites provide a great opportunity for counseling professionals to adapt to the issues facing clients today.
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A Primer on Motivational Interviewing (MI)
Building on Rogerian principles of counseling, motivational interviewing is a process for encouraging "change talk" and success together, and for melting resistance.
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How to Make Successful Changes in Your Life
Making a change in your life can seem daunting at first, but it doesn't have to be. Relaxation, clear thinking and success can accompany you into your chosen outcome.
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Is Mental Health Reserved for the Wealthy
Three out of every four persons suffer from some sort of mental illness. This can range from minor depression through schizophrenia. Is treatment available for everyone?
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When to Seek Counseling for Depression
Do you suspect that your unusual sadness is more serious than just a case of the blues? Read on to find out if it is time to seek counseling for depression.
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When Crime Affects Your Child
It's difficult to shelter your children from the horrors of crime. They are confronted with it daily through the media and worst still, when it invades homes and schools.
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Ten Steps of Crisis Intervention
There are 10 major steps in the general model of crisis intervention that are all important to implement and not omit.
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Dealing with Anger
Bottling up your anger and letting it out is equally detrimental. By recognizing the key triggers you can dissolve these negative emotions in your daily life.
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When Cancer Tests Are Positive
Other people can offload their fear onto you when they first hear that someone you love has been diagnosed with cancer. This article shows ways to handle them.
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