Pain is a symptom caused by physical‚ emotional‚ or psychological hurt or disorder. At some point in time you must have experienced pain and no you know that no one is exempted from suffering ailments. You are a human being and everyone you know the last time you checked and thus all are physically vulnerable to pain. Since this is the case‚ then you must learn how to manage pain so you can alleviate the symptom into a bearable predicament for a hurting individual or patient. This is what pain management
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BASIC PROCESS OF LEARNING The term learning is used in various ways by different psychologist to refer to the wide variety of phenomena. Learning is any process through which experience at one time can alter an individual’s behavior at a future time. The Behavioral perspective on LEARNING: acquiring ne responses to and for stimuli * Behaviorism is the attempt to understand behavior in terms of relationship between observable stimuli and observable response. * 2 separate learning processes
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Substance abuse‚ also known as drug abuse‚ refers to a maladaptive pattern of use of a substance (drug) that is not considered dependent. Substance abuse/drug abuse is not limited to mood-altering or psycho-active drugs. Activity is also considered substance abuse when inappropriately used (as in the case of propofol and Michael Jackson’s death‚ or steroids for performance enhancement in sports). Therefore‚ mood-altering and psychoactive substances are not the only drugs of abuse. Substance abuse
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Alannah Francis Imagine your having a nightmare. Someone or something is chasing you with a chainsaw. You run through wet grass and you can feel cold mud squish between your toes. Suddenly‚ you trip on a rock and a sharp pain erupts in your ankle. Its getting closer. You try to get up but the pain is too much. There right in front of you holding chainsaw. This is usually the part where you wake up‚ right? Wrong. The chainsaw rips through your skin and blood spatters everywhere. You thrash around
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The homeostasis of our bodies largely depends on a good night’s sleep and anything that disturbs this period of rest can have detrimental effects to our health. Insufficient sleep can lead to problems with cognitive function‚ mood disturbances‚ decreased energy which can further impair occupational performance and quality of life. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fourth Edition‚ Text Revision‚ the prevalence of insomnia can be viewed in four ways; as insomnia
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New Age religion is not a formal religion but a mix of numerous religious and philosophical ideas. New Age has no formal holy text‚ no central organisation‚ no dogma or creed. They believe that there is no evil. New Age Religion is becoming more popular as years go on. From 1996 till 2006 the number of people in New Age increased by 71%. The reason for the increase in number and importance in our society is based on 3 reasons. Reason one: society has changed so much in their answers for what is
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To cope with stigma and stress can be exceedingly beneficial and in some situations‚ even lifesaving and some of these potential coping strategies that have shown to be quite beneficial include: social support‚ meditation‚ biofeedback and drugs (Gross‚ 1996). Cohen & Lazarus (1979) as cited by Gross in 1996 have generalized the coping strategies that a person may use in order to reduce stress into five main categories. The first main coping strategies are referred to as the ‘direct
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Recently more and more Americans are turning towards alternative types of medicine rather than normal practices. There are many factors that lead individuals to these allopathic or holistic methods of healing. Some of the factors present are due to doctor availability‚ cultural differences‚ financial reasons‚ religious beliefs‚ and or limitations of modern medicine. Alternative healing has a wide variety of options such as folk healing‚ faith healing‚ complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)
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From this course‚ I have discovered a plethora of different types of spiritual care that involve religion and some that do not. Things such as: biofeedback‚ chakra‚ alderian therapy‚ theraputic touch‚ reiki‚ hydrotherapy‚ and music therapy. The main two spiritual therapies that I learned the most from‚ was music therapy and aromatherapy. I truly had no idea that these types of things could have such
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8 Ways to Prevent Eating Disorders Eating disorders are dangerous‚ complex disorders that arise from a variety of issues. One of the best ways to prevent eating disorders in yourself and others is to adopt healthy attitudes and behaviors about body shape and weight. Here are eight tips from the National Eating Disorders Association (www.nationaleatingdisorders.org) on how to prevent eating disorders. 1. Get rid of the notion that a particular diet‚ weight or body size will automatically lead
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