Thesis Statement: Equine Assisted Therapy can be beneficial to substance abuse clients with co-occurring disorders. Equine Assisted Therapy (EAP) is when horses is used as a tool for emotional growth and learning helping adults and children with mental health and behavioral problems‚ such as mood disorders‚ addictive behaviors and communication difficulties (Marshall-Lucette & Cantin‚ 2011). There is still limited information and literature not only in the United States but in the United Kingdom
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“The riding also improves concentration‚ memory and sequential thought processing‚ and even helps emotionally disabled riders articulate their feelings”(Horse Therapy for children and Adults With Special Needs). Colored rings are used during some therapy sessions to help the child with color recognition as well as stretching. This also helps develop their cognition skills. The color makes their mind focus on what they are doing and where the rings go. They sometimes play games such as red light‚
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Reality therapy was developed by Dr.William Glasser in 1965 (GoodTherapy.org). The therapy focuses personal responsibility for our choices and the resulting outcomes (study.com). The client will be directed to choose a behavior forcing them to reject the concept of unconscious forces causing a problem. Reality Therapy uses Choice theory to portray the goals of what is. The therapy is for issues happening now and not circumstances in the past. The therapeutic process is used to focus on things that
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in Physical Therapy One of the major issues with physical therapy is the lack of communication between the physician and the patient. The problem with the lack of communication is the patient will not be fully healed because the physician is unaware of all of the aches and pains of their patient . The lack of communication will be the cause of the of further injury to the patient because the physician can not help the unknown. Communication is extremely important in physical therapy because it has
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Reminiscence Therapy According to “The Use of Reminiscence Therapy for the Treatment of Depression in Rural-Dwelling Older Adults” in Issues in Mental Health Nursing‚ reminiscence therapy is using the recall of past events‚ feelings‚ and thoughts to facilitate adaptation to present circumstances. In the article‚ there was great emphasis on the need for nurses skilled in evaluating and developing interventions that targeted the mental health needs for older adults‚ especially those residing in
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Japanese Butoh versus Western Modern Dance Ankoku Butoh –– or “Dance of Utter Darkness‚” is a Japanese dance form that emerged from a restless post-World War 2 Japanese society. The dance form is deeply influenced by Western thinkers‚ philosophers‚ and artists who adopts dark Gnostic principles‚ such as Georges Bataille and Antonin Artaud1. Butoh consistently focuses on themes considered taboo such as sexuality‚ eroticism‚ and other dark explorations of the dark soul. The art form surfaced because
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paper will review the benefits of drama therapy as a behaviorist therapeutic approach to improve these skills. 1. Why Drama Therapy? According to the North America Drama Therapy Association (NADTA)‚ drama therapy is “a creative arts therapy method that integrates role play‚ stories‚ improvisation‚ and other techniques taken from the theater with the theories and methods of therapy” (NADTA ‚ 2015). When working with children‚ some of the benefits of drama therapy include: reducing feelings of isolation
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------------3 History of Ballroom Dance in China ---------------------------------------------------------------------3 Beginning -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3 Declines -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------4 New Start Point----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------4 Modern Dance -----------------------------------
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Modern dance is a broad genre of western concert or theatrical dance‚ primarily arising out of both Germany and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The oversimplification of modern dance’s history often leads to the erroneous explanation that the art form emerged merely as a rejection of‚ or rebellion against classical ballet. An in-depth analysis of the context of the emergence of modern dance reveals that as early as the 1880s‚ a range of socioeconomic changes in both
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Person-Centered Therapy Person-Centered Therapy is a form of psychoanalytical counseling developed in the 1940s by Carl Rogers. The foundation of this form of therapy stemmed from Rogers’ belief that all people have an inherent desire to be good. Every person has a self-concept or an ideal self which represents what type of person they want to be or think they are. However‚ a person’s self-concept may not be reflected in their real life experiences and this incongruence creates psychological
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