Sentences with phrase «of therapeutic groups»

Based on years of working with children in a variety of therapeutic groups, the RCH Mental Health Program produced a professional resource on «The Therapeutic Use of Games in Group work - When to use them, Why to use them and How to use them.»

There are many different types of therapeutic groups, but most therapy groups can be divided into two main approaches.

Led a variety of therapeutic groups addressing topics that include substance abuse, self - injury, and impulsive behaviors.

Led or co-led a variety of therapeutic groups addressing topics that included substance abuse, self - injurious behavior, family dynamics, and impulsive behaviors.

In the United States the lay - led groups have the nature of therapeutic groups.

This open acknowledgment of the moral context of the therapeutic group enabled the group to function in relationship to the individual somewhat like a small congregation or Methodist class meeting.

Infant Jesus of Prague School, Flossmoor • IL 2005 — 2005 Clerkship Co-leader of therapeutic group with adolescent girls.

Congregate Care Rightsizing and Redesign: Young Children, Voluntary Placements and a Profile of Therapeutic Group Homes (PDF - 534 KB) Connecticut Department of Children and Families (2011) Provides an overview of congregate care in Connecticut, describes levers of change in four practice areas, profiles younger children in care, and discusses the challenges to providing services.

This service was an adaptation of the Teaching - Family Model of therapeutic group home programming with some elements of child welfare intensive family preservation services.

Mr. Menikheim has also included this great example of a therapeutic group for a Military Support Guidance Program.

Not exact matches

Other charities that have benefited from the organization include healthcare outsourcing platform Watsi; The Water Project; the Electronic Frontier Foundation digital - rights activism group; MAPS, an organization that studies therapeutic uses of psychedelic drugs and marijuana; the medical nonprofit SENS Research Foundation; and charity: water.

If AA could combine its amazing program of social therapy with psycho therapeutic insights and techniques, particularly group therapy, an approach to alcoholism with maximum effectiveness might be produced.

The internist is equipped to treat the physiological problems and administer Antabuse; the psychologist is trained to do testing through which the alcoholic's therapeutic needs can be evaluated, and he may be trained to do research and psychotherapy; the psychiatrist, being a medical doctor like the internist, can prescribe medication, but his unique skills are in the area of individual and group therapy and their relationship to drug therapies; the social worker may be trained to help the alcoholic work through his marital and vocational problems and do group as well as individual therapy; the social worker may also work with spouses; the pastoral counselor is specially equipped by training to help the alcoholic with his «spiritual» problems as these relate to his sobriety and his interpersonal relationships; he may also be trained to do group and marital counseling; 40.

Here was the first pioneering attempt to treat alcoholism with a combination of individual and group therapy, the first attempt to combine the resources of depth psychology and religion in a systematic therapeutic endeavor.

But Lifton believes that from the inception of the groups, it was clear to most of those who participated that the «political - ethical and psychological - therapeutic components were inseparable.»

Therapeutic and disruptive effects of small groups, study, Bible, prayer, etc..

The therapeutic process will ordinarily be less intense (and therefore more easily used constructively) if one or more of the following changes are made: (a) The size of the group is increased.

The leader of such a group must be highly skilled in order to help the group per se become a therapeutic agent and to minimize the following dangers: (a) Transference distortions.

These ground rules represent a practical way of modifying orthodox group psychotherapy rendering it less hazardous without losing the therapeutic values of honest discussion of personal feelings.

In fact, they may be more therapeutic than many «therapy groups» simply because they have a center outside themselves and a goal which is more inclusive than simply the growth of their members.

This comparison of two adult classes in the same midwestern church illustrates the distinction between therapeutic and non-therapeutic groups:

Self - help groups (many of which are modeled on Alcoholics Anonymous) represent one of the most hopeful developments in the whole field of contemporary therapeutic groups.

Since the sharing group as we have described it centers on a sharing of feelings, the emphasis is more therapeutic than it is educational.

Indeed, the first distinguishing characteristic of the sharing group is that it combines the therapeutic with the educational.

And one of the greatest preachers America has produced pooh - poohed the traditional role of preaching, redefining it in more acceptable therapeutic terms as «personal counseling on a group scale.»

Many still join therapeutic groups led by disciples of Thomas Harris.

For example, such things as life adjustment counseling; community social action; marriage and family life education and counseling; social, religious, and therapeutic group experiences; and the after - care of patients by means of a supporting, redemptive fellowship contribute to positive mental health.

Delineate some of the unique contributions of clergymen and religious groups to mental health action on both the therapeutic and preventive - educational fronts.

Whether they became so via previous therapeutic or growth experiences or as a result of having «chosen their parents well,» they invariably help a group develop a growth climate.

Instead of trying to slap something together and get back to working or couch - flopping, I put some music on (we just watched True Detective and right now I am LOVING The Handsome Family, the group that sings the theme song), rolled up my sleeves, and had a much - needed and very therapeutic two - hour zone - out while I put it all together.

For groups, I offer a six - week therapeutic processing group for traumatic birth experiences (this group, called The Mothers Circle, is offered in partnership with Alicia Poldino of Utah Prenatal Yoga).

The efficacy of centrally produced ready - to - use therapeutic food (RUTF - C) or locally prepared RUTF (RUTF - L) for home - based management of uncomplicated SAM was compared with micronutrient - enriched, energy - dense home - prepared foods (A-HPF, the comparison group).

This therapeutic support group explores the emotional journey of parenting a child with a chronic condition.

The Forum on Human Germline Interventions, organized by AAAS, convened a multi-disciplinary group of scientists, ethicists, and theologians to participate in discussions regarding scientific freedom and responsibility issues; the history and status of religious involvement; ethical and theological issues; therapeutic vs. enhancement applications; and setting policy and developing guidelines on human germline research and applications.

A research group headed by Gustavo Turecki, professor of psychiatry at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, recently used the platform to show that miRNAs can be used as prognostic markers for therapeutic responses to an antidepressant medication in patients with major depressive disorder (3).

For now, Rashid's group has a list of candidate therapeutic drugs that they'll test in their new liver disease models, something that may still prove useful to patients.

«Against the background of these findings, we can, for example identify possible risk groups and develop new therapeutic approaches,» adds Dr. Christian Gieger (HMGU).

The possibilities arising from therapeutic cloning are creating hope for millions of people who are seriously ill — for example, Alzheimer's patients, just to mention one group.

Researchers from the «Angiogenesis signaling pathways» research group of the Institute of Biomedical Investigation of Bellvitge (IDIBELL), led by Dr. Mariona Graupera, have unveiled the potential therapeutic benefit of a selective inhibitior of the PI3 - kinase (PI3K) protein in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PanNETs).

The work published in Cancer Cell complements previous research efforts from the CNIO Melanoma Group, which could lead to the development of novel drugs that selectively target the mechanism of cell autodigestion as a potential therapeutic strategy.

In the study published in the journal Science Signaling, the team led by LLuís Espinosa, investigator of IMIM's research group into stem cells and cancer, have shown that inhibition of endosomal activity is a potential therapeutic strategy for the treatment of cancers with the BRAF mutated gene.

University of Calgary researchers including Luchman, Weiss and Dr. Greg Cairncross — director of SACRI, and leader of the Terry Fox Research Institute (TFRI) «Therapeutic Targeting of Glioblastoma research program at the university — are now working with cancer researchers Dr. Warren Mason (Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto) and Dr. Lesley Seymour (Director of the NCIC Clinical Trials Group's Investigational New Drug Program), and drug manufacturer AstraZeneca, to plan a clinical trial testing a similar, but newer, drug related to AZD8055 (called AZD2014), in combination with TMZ, in patients with glioblastoma.

A group of really brainy scientists have moved closer to growing «therapeutic» brain cells in the laboratory that can be re-integrated back into patients» brains to treat a wide range of neurological conditions.

After a successful postdoc at the Ontario Cancer Institute, where he developed a proprietary platform for the discovery of novel cancer therapeutic agents, Bray was asked to join the former Amgen Research Institute in Toronto (now called the Advanced Medical Discovery Institute and no longer part of the parent company) as the head of their quantitative biology group and act as liaison to Amgen Inc. in California.

This wireless — fully wearable — neuroprosthetic interface essentially decodes brain signals about walking and stimulates the spinal cord to contract the correct group of leg muscles to enact the intended walking movements — without any therapeutic training.

The study, led by ISGlobal — a centre supported by the «la Caixa» Foundation — and published in Scientific Reports, indicates that this enzyme could represent a selective therapeutic target against this broad group of parasites.

The authors conclude that recurrence of an atrial tachyarrhythmia was frequent in both groups, and that when offering ablation as a therapeutic option to patients with paroxysmal AF who have not previously received antiarrhythmic drugs, the risks and benefits need to be discussed and treatment strategy individually recommended.

Half of the patients in the body cooling treatment group received therapeutic hypothermia through special cooling blankets.

The authors, who are now planning to begin clinical trials based on this study, state that the three enzymes can be promising therapeutic targets for a diverse and broad group of DLBCL patients.

The one developed by Zhang and his team, including Ph.D. student Inga Haedicke, U of T Assistant Professor Hai - Ling Margaret Cheng and two research groups (Dr. Timothy Scholl and Dr. Paula Foster) from Western University, can improve monitoring at the cellular level, which is a crucial element in measuring the effectiveness of stem and therapeutic cell treatments.