scholarly journals “From an old life to a new life”: Group therapy for cognitive disorders and affective deficits in adolescents who have committed sexual offenses

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Talia Etgar ◽  
Noam Neder
Keyword(s):  
Group Therapy ◽  
Effective Treatment ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Cognitive Disorders ◽  
Risk Level ◽  
Optimal Process ◽  
Sexual Offenses ◽  
Affective Deficits ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Shed Light

The purpose of the current article is to shed light on the unique population of adolescents who have committed sexual offenses, suffering from cognitive disorders, by presenting the disorders and challenges that characterize these youngsters and discussing the issues that are relevant to the therapeutic process of sexual offenses. In our article we show the correlations and adaptations that we made to provide these boys with the most effective treatment possible, both to enable them to undergo an optimal process and to lower their risk level for recidivism.

scholarly journals Comparative approaches to the study of physiology: Drosophila as a physiological tool

2013 ◽  
Vol 304 (3) ◽  
pp. R177-R188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendi S. Neckameyer ◽  
Kathryn J. Argue
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Pattern Formation ◽  
Signaling Pathways ◽  
Human Disease ◽  
Cognitive Disorders ◽  
Model System ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
Developmental Signaling ◽  
Shed Light

Numerous studies have detailed the extensive conservation of developmental signaling pathways between the model system, Drosophila melanogaster, and mammalian models, but researchers have also profited from the unique and highly tractable genetic tools available in this system to address critical questions in physiology. In this review, we have described contributions that Drosophila researchers have made to mathematical dynamics of pattern formation, cardiac pathologies, the way in which pain circuits are integrated to elicit responses from sensation, as well as the ways in which gene expression can modulate diverse behaviors and shed light on human cognitive disorders. The broad and diverse array of contributions from Drosophila underscore its translational relevance to modeling human disease.

scholarly journals Nature: the cure we've been looking for

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Sarah Knowles
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Group Therapy ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Effective Treatment ◽  
Behavioural Therapy ◽  
Context Information ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Cognitive Behavioural ◽  
Western Psychology

Nature-based therapy is a therapeutic lens that utilizes nature as a co-therapist. This approach addresses the disconnect between land and people, a disconnect that negatively impacts the mental health of many of those seeking mental health services. Consequently, this approach is now considered an effective treatment for youth and is used as a standalone approach or integrated with cognitive behavioural therapy, gestalt, or group therapy. In either case, this nature-based lens provides a bridge between traditional Indigenous practices and Western psychology. My project highlights various activities and ideas in order to incorporate nature into one’s practice as a therapist, specifically within a northern context. Information regarding benefits, ethical concerns and various types of nature-based therapy will be discussed and guide the development of the manual. The guidebook will assist those interested in nature therapy by creating a place where tangible and realistic ideas for how to incorporate it into practice are located.

The Art of Working With Nature in Nature-Based Therapies

2020 ◽  
pp. 105382592093363
Author(s):  
Lia Naor ◽  
Ofra Mayseless
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Basic Belief ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Therapeutic Approaches ◽  
Therapeutic Goals ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Shed Light

Background: Nature-based therapeutic approaches have largely centered on the significance of nature, as a unique setting. This article focuses on an additional perspective, that of nature as actively influencing the therapeutic process, providing significant content. Purpose: The main objective of this study was to shed light on how practitioners experience, perceive, and work with nature to serve therapeutic goals. Methodology/Approach: Grounded theory inquiry was implemented. Data included in-depth interviews conducted with 26 nature-based practitioners with different professional backgrounds from five countries and field observations of six nature-based workshops. Findings/Conclusions: Four major categories emerged: (a) A basic belief among practitioners that nature is actively influencing the therapeutic process, providing significant and relevant personal information; (b) the practitioners’ relationship with nature and its role in the therapeutic process; (c) the practice of working with nature so nature’s input is acknowledged and integrated intentionally; (d) creating the conditions for the clients’ engagement with nature as a resource via five themes. Implications: This study expands on common notions of nature-based facilitation, illuminating the possibilities and potential of integrating nature’s input as beneficial and relevant to the therapeutic process by working with nature. The operational and practical steps for working with nature are delineated.

Group Therapy with Mothers and Babies in Postpartum Crises: Preliminary Evaluation of a Pilot Project

2004 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernanda Pedrina
Keyword(s):  
Group Therapy ◽  
Group Process ◽  
Early Recognition ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Preliminary Evaluation ◽  
Group Setting ◽  
Long Term Effect

Postpartum psychic crises are common and have an extremely adverse effect on the lives of those mothers concerned. Furthermore in cases of postpartum depression the mothers’ dysfunction has a long-term effect on both the child’s development and family interaction. Offering a psychoanalytically oriented group therapy for mothers and babies is an attempt to facilitate early recognition and treatment of mothers who are emotionally troubled. The inclusion of babies in the group setting is not yet well documented in relevant literature: this study is especially concerned with the question of whether the baby’s presence has a similarly positive effect on the therapeutic process as in the more familiar parent (mother)-infant-therapy. This paper will present an initial evaluation of the group process.

Cognitive disorders: Searching for the circumstances of effective treatment: Introduction by the symposium organizer

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 593-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
LESLIE J. GONZALEZ ROTHI
Keyword(s):  
Effective Treatment ◽  
Cognitive Deficits ◽  
Cognitive Rehabilitation ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Graduate Training ◽  
Cognitive Disorders ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Neurologic Disease ◽  
Implicit Belief ◽  
Graduate Training Programs

Cognitive deficits associated with neurologic disease or damage are quite common and they are known to negatively impact the lives of patients, caregivers and society at large. Unfortunately, documented effective rehabilitation of cognitive deficits is extremely scarce. In addition the concept of cognitive rehabilitation is usually viewed with tremendous skepticism. This pessimism is manifested in so many ways: It is found in the reluctance of skeptical physicians to refer patients to rehabilitation clinicians, it is seen in the reluctance of service payers to fund clinical efforts, it gets reflected in the graduate training programs which place cognitive rehabilitation in the lower echelons of curricular priorities, it underlies the dearth of funded programs in cognitive rehabilitation research, and it even permeates professional organizations and journals where “treatment studies” represent an extreme minority of presentations and articles. The most salient explanation for this therapeutic nihilism is the implicit belief that “everyone knows it doesn't work.”

Five Questions about Group Therapy in Long-Term Schizophrenia

1999 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 515-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Smith
Keyword(s):  
Group Therapy ◽  
Effective Treatment ◽  
Time Scale

Group therapy has been demonstrated to be an effective treatment for individuals with long-term schizophrenic illnesses. However, therapists must be aware of the particular characteristics of these patients and modify their expectations, techniques and time scale of treatment accordingly. If this can be achieved, both patient and therapist may be surprised by how rewarding and helpful such a group may become.

scholarly journals A more comprehensive comprehension and appropriate application: An answer to dwindling faith commitment from the book of Hebrews

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert J. Coetsee
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Church Members ◽  
Church Member ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Faith Commitment ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Book Of Hebrews ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Church ◽  
Shed Light

Closely linked to the phenomenon of the decline in church member numbers in the Western church, is the phenomenon of dwindling their faith commitment. This is the phenomenon in which church members do not show the same vitality and zeal as before and are in danger of abandoning their faith. The current article contributed to the arsenal of studies, aimed at addressing the phenomenon by presenting the solutions deduced from a single biblical book, namely the book of Hebrews. The book of Hebrews is arguably one of the most fitting biblical books to shed light on how the phenomenon can be addressed, as Hebrews was written to a church that experienced a decline in faith commitment. The primary aim of the article was to determine what solutions the writer of Hebrews proposes for addressing his addressees’ dwindling in their faith commitment, while the secondary aim was to reflect on how the writer’s solutions can be applied in the 21st century church. In order to achieve these aims, reconstruction by means of exegesis and a detailed literature study is used in the article. It begins with the reconstruction of the context of the addressees, specifically to determine the reason(s) why they dwindled in their faith commitment. This was followed by reconstructing the writer’s solution for his addressees’ dwindling faith commitment. Next, the writer’s solution was fleshed out in the light of the whole of Hebrews by tracing the major themes and broad lines found in the book. It is noted that the writer addresses the issue by guiding and exhorting his addressees to come to a more comprehensive comprehension and appropriate application of their confessed faith. This he does by shaming, frightening, reminding, guiding and assuring them. By means of reflection, it is suggested in the conclusion that the same strategy can be applied in the church today to address the phenomenon of dwindling faith commitment.Contribution: The article indicated the relevancy of the book of Hebrews for the church in the 21st century, especially in terms of addressing the issue of dwindling faith commitment. As such, the article gives practical suggestions on how the issue can be addressed from the book of Hebrews by pastors, ministers, pastoral counsellors, Bible students, and church members.

scholarly journals Analysis of the Process in Brief Psychotherapy Group: The Role of Therapeutic Factors

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Marogna ◽  
Floriana Caccamo
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Group Therapy ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Brief Psychotherapy ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Therapeutic Factors ◽  
High Internal Consistency

In all group therapeutic processes, there are interacting and interdependent mechanisms and changing conditions: the therapeutic factors (Corsini & Rosenberg, 1955; Yalom, 1995). These factors are intrinsic to the therapeutic process and unrelated to the type of group (Rorhbaugh & Bartels, 1975). The present study examines the factor structure of the questionnaire Factors Aspecific and Specific in the Group Therapy (FAT.A.S.-G.; Marogna, 2009), designed to investigate specific and non-specific therapeutic factors. The questionnaire was administered to 167 patients involved in a short-term psychotherapy group. The factor analysis identified two main dimensions: interdependence and the group as Object-Self. The Cronbach Alpha coefficients range from .88 to .93, showing high internal consistency between items.

Combined and parallel individual and group therapy—still a red rag?

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothe Türk
Keyword(s):  
Group Therapy ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Individual Psychotherapy ◽  
The Third ◽  
Individual Session ◽  
Parallel Group ◽  
Transference And Countertransference ◽  
Social Anxieties ◽  
Tolerable Level

The author argues that in specific cases, and for particular reasons, combined or parallel treatment could be superior to sole individual or sole group therapy. In recent years, I treated some patients before and during the start of group therapy with weekly individual sessions. This procedure was necessary to reduce the fear of the group for these patients to a tolerable level. For some other patients, I replaced the third psychoanalytic individual session with psychoanalytic group therapy for their treatment. The concurrent parallel group session can provide a supplement and extension of the psychoanalytic process. For patients with pronounced super-ego disorders, severe shame and social anxieties, this treatment may boost individual development in treatment. Concurrent group and individual psychotherapy enriches transference and countertransference work in both settings and enables a dense and intensive therapeutic process. To treat people equally means to treat them differently. The needs of our patients are not the same. The main point of my interest is the patient and not the treatment modality. Every patient requires individual ways of therapy.

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