Sentences with phrase «as systems therapies»

Solution - focused brief therapy is one of a family of approaches, known as systems therapies, that have been developed over the past 50 years or so, first in the US, and eventually evolving around the world, including Europe.

Solution Focused Brief Therapy is one of a family of approaches, known as a systems therapies, that have been developed over the past 50 years or so, first in the USA, and eventually evolving around the world, including Europe.

As systems therapies emphasize more than did Sullivan, intrapsychic growth is best sustained by constructive interpersonal change.

Not exact matches

Still, electroceutical therapies may still have many applications in the peripheral nervous system, such as bladder control or appetite suppression, says researcher Jose Carmena, a neuroscientist and electrical engineer at the University of California at Berkeley.

In Gestalt Therapy, the self is called «the system of contacts at any moment» (GT 235) and is a gestalt (as the dominant occasion is an actual occasion), though the theory does not emphasize this.The «self is spontaneous, middle in mode...» (GT 376).

The shift in their therapeutic focus is away from a primary concern with what occurs within individuals (the preoccupation of the mainstream of therapy since Freud) and toward enhancing interpersonal relationships and small social systems such as families.

As was pointed out in chapter 3, interpersonalism was the central motif of the thinking of Harry Stack Sullivan, the foreparent of systems therapies.

The second category of systemic therapies aims at changing ongoing, natural systems such as marriages and families.

Building on this awareness, systemic therapies took the crucial step methodologically by intervening directly in interpersonal systems to help them become more growth - enabling as systems.

The system lends itself to integration with other, complementary approaches such as gestalt therapy.

Although Jung's seminal thought offers invaluable growth resources, there are limitations to his system as a total growth therapy.

Staci then went on to earn her Master of Science Degree in Family Therapy as well as a Clinical Specialist Degree in Family Systems Health Care from Nova Southeastern University in 1993.

Our Sound Oasis ® group is the world leader in sound therapy systems (otherwise known as «white noise» machines or sound machines).

We are dedicated to helping troubled boys overcome their behavioral issues through a unique relationship based therapy system that encourages them to address the root of the problem, rather than simply the symptoms as so many behavior modification programs do.

«For us, it's very important to understand the neural circuits or pathways so that we can develop therapies specifically for pain or itch, instead of targeting it as a whole system,» says Santosh Mishra, assistant professor of neuroscience in NC State's College of Veterinary Medicine and the corresponding author of a paper on the topic.

During the sessions, U.S. and Cuban scientists explored such topics as the molecular mechanisms cancer cells employ to evade the body's immune system, new tools to image and manipulate that system, and ways to rethink how such therapies can best be deployed to reach patients where they receive health services.

A type of immune therapy known as PD - 1 blockade controlled cancer in 77 percent of patients with defects in DNA mismatch repair — the system cells use to spell - check and fix errors in DNA (SN Online: 10/7/15).

Side effects of the treatment included skin rashes, thyroid problems and diarrhea as the therapy caused the immune system to attack other parts of the body.

It could also lead to the development of new therapies against other more common neurodegenerative disorders of the central nervous system, as well as diseases related to the propagation of pathological proteins, including Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

Published in the peer - reviewed journal Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine, the study, «Sperm RNA elements as markers of health,» from the lab of Stephen A. Krawetz, Ph.D., the Charlotte B. Failing Professor of Fetal Therapy and Diagnosis in the Wayne State Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, indicates that RNA found in male sperm not only shows promise as a determinant in successful live birth, it may also tell us more about the health of a child as it matures.

«As a field, we are starting to grapple with premature aging in the HIV - infected population, even in patients who are on therapy — their immune systems largely look like someone whose immune system is many years older,» Hunt notes.

With additional genome tinkering to avoid rejection by the immune system, they could be used clinically as a universal stem cell therapy.

Finding a cure or a better therapy for cancer will relieve the burden on the patient's family, on the health system and society as well.

My cancer systems biology team at the University of California, Merced, is tackling diagnosis and treatment of therapy - resistant cancers by elucidating the network of changes within cells as a way to identify new drug targets and circumvent cancer resistance.

So he joined GSK Vaccines in 2010, as a molecular biologist in the company's Antigen - Specific Cancer Immunotherapeutic program, which aims to harness the immune system for the development of well - tolerated cancer therapies.

Epigenetic therapies are thought to work in two ways to fix these errors in cancer cells — by correcting the «position» of the gene switches and by making the cell appear as though it's infected by a virus, triggering the immune system.

Viral therapy for childhood cancer could possibly improve if treatments such as chemotherapy do not first suppress patients» immune systems, according to findings published today in the journal Molecular Therapy — Oncotherapy for childhood cancer could possibly improve if treatments such as chemotherapy do not first suppress patients» immune systems, according to findings published today in the journal Molecular Therapy — OncoTherapy — Oncolytics.

Immune therapy for ovarian, breast and colorectal cancer — treatments that encourage the immune system to attack cancer cells as the foreign invaders they are — has so far had limited success, primarily because the immune system often can't destroy the cancer cells.

First, although there are many anecdotes from smokers who claim that e-cigarettes — properly known as electronic nicotine delivery systems — have helped them quit, so far no one has been able to show that they are more effective than nicotine replacement therapy, itself not very effective as a quitting aid.

This surveillance system is built to identify problems, such as side effects of pharmaceuticals and medical therapies, as they emerge.

Treatments such as behavioral therapies or continuous glucose - monitoring systems can prevent these events in many — but not all — people with this impaired awareness, leaving a substantial number of people at risk.

«The treatment of multiple myeloma has improved significantly in recent years with the introduction of therapies such as proteasome inhibitors [which interfere with tumor cells» protein - disposal system] and potent immuno - modulatory agents,» said the paper's senior author and lead investigator, Paul Richardson, MD, clinical program leader and director of clinical research at Dana - Farber's Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center, and the R.J. Corman professor at Harvard Medical School.

Most people live with the infection without noticeable effect, but it can be life - threatening for people with suppressed immune systems, such as people on cancer therapies or who have HIV / AIDS.

The last phase involves a mix of individual, group, and family therapy, developing non-erotic support systems with men, and introducing the patient to a married couple that «function [s] as special companions.»

As for the future, I look forward to significant changes in the medical paradigm, forced by relentless consumer demand for alternative therapies and the impending total collapse of the health - care system.

As the central nervous system is also a target of AAV vectors, Hélène Puccio and Patrick Aubourg's teams are investigating whether a similar approach using gene therapy could be as effective for the spinal cord and cerebellum as it is for the hearAs the central nervous system is also a target of AAV vectors, Hélène Puccio and Patrick Aubourg's teams are investigating whether a similar approach using gene therapy could be as effective for the spinal cord and cerebellum as it is for the hearas effective for the spinal cord and cerebellum as it is for the hearas it is for the heart.

The vectors are customizable and could potentially be used as part of a gene therapy to treat neurodegenerative disorders that affect the entire central nervous system, such as Huntington's disease, or to help map or modulate neuronal circuits and understand how they change during disease.

Studies in patients suggest these systems have potential as therapies and as vaccines

«This camera has the potential to greatly enhance our understanding of very fast biological interactions and chemical processes that will allow us to build better models of complex, dynamical systems such as cellular respiration, or to help doctors better deliver and monitor light - based therapies,» says Richard Conroy, Ph.D., program director for Optical Imaging at NIBIB.

And while new therapies have been effective in releasing the immune system's restraints to unleash the body's own cancer - fighting powers, they only work in about half of melanoma patients and often lose their potency as the cancer develops resistance.

The costs of drug therapy were analysed as overall costs, and the costs of hospital days were calculated according to the Finnish health care system's unit costs, which also include the patient's payment contribution.

So far, DARPA has released two calls for grant applications, with at least one more likely: The first, called SUBNETS (Systems - Based Neurotechnology for Emerging Therapies), asks researchers to develop novel, wireless devices, such as deep brain stimulators, that can cure neurological disorders such as posttraumatic stress (PTS), major depression, and chronic pain.

Current therapies for autoimmune disease, such as prednisone and rituximab, suppress large parts of the immune system, leaving patients vulnerable to potentially fatal opportunistic infections and cancers.

«With the development of effective treatments, the most limiting factor to treating acute stroke is infrastructure — we have to keep evolving our systems to get therapy to as many appropriate patients as possible,» says Ferdinand K. Hui, M.D., associate professor of radiology and radiological science at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

This system could, for example, enable single - administration vaccines that do not require boosters as well as a new way to deliver chemotherapy, hormone therapy, or drugs that facilitate wound healing.

Scientists are taking preemptive action by using already available molecular imaging systems to determine the optimal dose of one such peptide - receptor radionuclide therapy known as yttrium - 90 DOTA0 - Tyr3 - octreotide (Y - 90 DOTATOC).

Checkpoint blockade therapy obstructs those signals, makes T - cells see the cancer cells as invaders again, and allows the immune system to do its job.

Walker and the authors note that a well - tested «next - generation probiotic» consisting of known beneficial microbes delivered as a pill or other therapy could take the place of fresh feces, and this mouse system provides a way to identify the most effective bacteria, the diseases those bacteria can treat, and whether a particular diet is necessary.

«This applies particularly to immunotherapies, but many conventional therapies such as chemotherapy also rely on components of the immune system for their effectiveness.

The whole genome and RNA sequencing data were analyzed by a team of bioinformaticians and oncologists at the NYGC as well as a beta version of IBM Watson for Genomics, an automated system for prioritizing somatic variants and identifying potential therapies.