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Laura Douglass - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Training Issues in Yoga Therapy and Mental Health Treatment
International Journal of Yoga Therapy, 2011Co-Authors: Bo Forbes, Fiona Akhtar, Laura DouglassAbstract:The field of yoga therapy is in the midst of a paradigm shift that will affect our education and clinical practice. Some yoga therapists are seeking additional professional training to work with special populations, while others prefer to conduct treatment in much the same way they have for decades. Some yoga therapists have chosen to align with IAYT's move toward accreditation, and perhaps to explore third-party reimbursement and licensure,while others elect to solidify their identity as "renegade"practitioners or educators. The fields of Psychotherapy and Psychiatry have also entered a period of transition. Many clinicians now acknowledge the body's integral role in transformation. Some have begun to study yoga or incorporate yogic interventions into treatment, while others choose to practice Psychotherapy and support yoga therapy as a valuable adjunct treatment. Yoga has also made its way into Psychotherapy training programs, and has become a hot topic at psychology conferences. IAYT's membership reflects this significant trend toward the integration of yoga and psychology. Of its nearly 3,000 members, 40%hold a medical license, and almost half those licenses are in mental health. The great wall between yoga therapy and mental health treatment is crumbling.
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Training Issues in Yoga Therapy and Mental Health Treatment
International journal of yoga therapy, 2011Co-Authors: Bo Forbes, Fiona Akhtar, Laura DouglassAbstract:The field of yoga therapy is in the midst of a paradigm shift that will affect our education and clinical practice. Some yoga therapists are seeking additional professional training to work with special populations, while others prefer to conduct treatment in much the same way they have for decades. Some yoga therapists have chosen to align with IAYT's move toward accreditation, and perhaps to explore third-party reimbursement and licensure, while others elect to solidify their identity as "renegade" practitioners or educators. The fields of Psychotherapy and Psychiatry have also entered a period of transition. Many clinicians now acknowledge the body's integral role in transformation. Some have begun to study yoga or incorporate yogic interventions into treatment, while others choose to practice Psychotherapy and support yoga therapy as a valuable adjunct treatment. Yoga has also made its way into Psychotherapy training programs, and has become a hot topic at psychology conferences. IAYT's membership ref...
Bo Forbes - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Training Issues in Yoga Therapy and Mental Health Treatment
International Journal of Yoga Therapy, 2011Co-Authors: Bo Forbes, Fiona Akhtar, Laura DouglassAbstract:The field of yoga therapy is in the midst of a paradigm shift that will affect our education and clinical practice. Some yoga therapists are seeking additional professional training to work with special populations, while others prefer to conduct treatment in much the same way they have for decades. Some yoga therapists have chosen to align with IAYT's move toward accreditation, and perhaps to explore third-party reimbursement and licensure,while others elect to solidify their identity as "renegade"practitioners or educators. The fields of Psychotherapy and Psychiatry have also entered a period of transition. Many clinicians now acknowledge the body's integral role in transformation. Some have begun to study yoga or incorporate yogic interventions into treatment, while others choose to practice Psychotherapy and support yoga therapy as a valuable adjunct treatment. Yoga has also made its way into Psychotherapy training programs, and has become a hot topic at psychology conferences. IAYT's membership reflects this significant trend toward the integration of yoga and psychology. Of its nearly 3,000 members, 40%hold a medical license, and almost half those licenses are in mental health. The great wall between yoga therapy and mental health treatment is crumbling.
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Training Issues in Yoga Therapy and Mental Health Treatment
International journal of yoga therapy, 2011Co-Authors: Bo Forbes, Fiona Akhtar, Laura DouglassAbstract:The field of yoga therapy is in the midst of a paradigm shift that will affect our education and clinical practice. Some yoga therapists are seeking additional professional training to work with special populations, while others prefer to conduct treatment in much the same way they have for decades. Some yoga therapists have chosen to align with IAYT's move toward accreditation, and perhaps to explore third-party reimbursement and licensure, while others elect to solidify their identity as "renegade" practitioners or educators. The fields of Psychotherapy and Psychiatry have also entered a period of transition. Many clinicians now acknowledge the body's integral role in transformation. Some have begun to study yoga or incorporate yogic interventions into treatment, while others choose to practice Psychotherapy and support yoga therapy as a valuable adjunct treatment. Yoga has also made its way into Psychotherapy training programs, and has become a hot topic at psychology conferences. IAYT's membership ref...
Lewis Mehl-madrona - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Depression/Bipolar Peer Support Groups: Perceptions of Group Members about Effectiveness and Differences from Other Mental Health Services
The Qualitative Report, 2017Co-Authors: Joe Behler, Allen Daniels, Jennifer Scott, Lewis Mehl-madronaAbstract:Peer support services remain poorly understood by many mental health service providers. In this study we explored the views of people who use peer led support groups. We asked how adding peer support groups changed, balanced, or augmented the use of conventional mental health services. Participants were 43 adults attending 4 peer led support groups for depression/bipolar disorder. Data consisted of observations of all 43 participants interacting in their group, in-depth interviews of 20 participants, and results from 2 standardized questionnaires to ballpark the level of symptom severity relative to other groups. Through constant comparative analysis, 12 categories emerged. The most salient features of our findings consisted of the shared perception that groups promoted recovery and augmented conventional services. Members felt acceptance due to their shared diagnoses. Groups provided an experience of community in which recovery skills could be practiced, practical advice received, and hope and empowerment encouraged. Groups appeared to provide participants with important support and healing unavailable from Psychotherapy and Psychiatry. Peer support groups appeared to be an important addition and sometimes an adequate substitute for Psychotherapy and/or Psychiatry. Further research is indicated and quantitative students should build on the insights of qualitative studies in developing their protocols.
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Depression/Bipolar Peer Support Groups: Perceptions of Group Members about Effectiveness and Differences from Other Mental Health Services
The Qualitative Report, 2017Co-Authors: Joe Behler, Allen Daniels, Jennifer Scott, Lewis Mehl-madronaAbstract:Peer support services remain poorly understood by many mental health service providers. In this study we explored the views of people who use peer led support groups. We asked how adding peer support groups changed, balanced, or augmented the use of conventional mental health services. Participants were 43 adults attending 4 peer led support groups for depression/bipolar disorder. Data consisted of observations of all 43 participants interacting in their group, in-depth interviews of 20 participants, and results from 2 standardized questionnaires to ballpark the level of symptom severity relative to other groups. Through constant comparative analysis, 12 categories emerged. The most salient features of our findings consisted of the shared perception that groups promoted recovery and augmented conventional services. Members felt acceptance due to their shared diagnoses. Groups provided an experience of community in which recovery skills could be practiced, practical advice received, and hope and empowerment encouraged. Groups appeared to provide participants with important support and healing unavailable from Psychotherapy and Psychiatry. Peer support groups appeared to be an important addition and sometimes an adequate substitute for Psychotherapy and/or Psychiatry. Further research is indicated and quantitative students should build on the insights of qualitative studies in developing their protocols. Keywords: Peer Support, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Group Psychotherapy, Peer Counseling, Mood Disorders, Grounded Theory, Constant Comparative Analysis, Mutual Aid Consumer-operated or peer-led programs consist of groups of people with similar problems who come together in places they own and control to learn from each other without experts (Chamberlin, Rogers, & Ellison, 1996; Davidson, Chinman, Kloos, Weingarten, Stayner, & Tebes, 1999; Lieberman & Snowden, 1994). Consumer-operated programs are not clinical treatment and tend to use the language of recovery more than that of maintenance (Davidson et al., 1999). Consumer groups such as Mental Health America, National Alliance for Mental Illness, and the Depression Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) recommend support groups in addition to other services for mood disorders (Depression Bipolar Support Alliance, 2012; Mental Health America, 2011; National Alliance on Mental Illness, 2012). The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration promotes peer support (SAMHSA, 2004). "The American Psychiatric Association recognizes, supports and promotes peer support services as an important part of the continuum of mental health and substance use disorder services" (American Association of Community Psychiatrists, 2010). Peer support comes in many forms. Davidson et al. (1999) have described three types of peer support: informal (naturally occurring), peers participating in peer/consumer run programs, and consumers employed as peer providers (Peer Support Workers [PSWs] or Peer Specialists). Repper and Carter (2011), in a review of 38 studies published between 1995 and 2010 on peer support in mental health services, identify the growth of the employment of PSWs in the US, Australia, and New Zealand over the last decade, and more recently in the UK. The idea of recovery has been intimately linked to peer support and came to the forefront when The President's New Freedom Commission recognized it as an essential focus of service programs for persons with serious mental illness (Hogan, 2003; New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, 2003). Services that promote recovery and include the person with disabilities in all facets of intervention appear to yield greater success in helping people to meet their vocational and independent living goals (Corrigan, Faber, Rashid, & Leary, 1999; Rogers, Chamberlin, Ellison, & Crean, 1997). Peer-support, peer-counseling, and consumeroperated services are considered integral to the recovery process (Corrigan, Calabrese, Diwan, Keogh, Keck, & Mussey, 2002) and appear to facilitate recovery from serious mental illness (Corrigan, Slopen, Gracia, Keogh, & Keck, 2005). …
Jacco Verburgt - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Psychopathology and causal explanation in practice. A critical note on Heidegger’s Zollikon Seminars
Medicine Health Care and Philosophy, 2009Co-Authors: Gerben Meynen, Jacco VerburgtAbstract:From 1959 until 1969, Heidegger lectured to psychiatrists and Psychiatry students at the University of Zurich Psychiatric Clinic and in Zollikon. The transcriptions of these lectures were published as the Zollikon Seminars . In these seminars Heidegger is highly critical of psychoanalysis, because of its causal and objectifying approach to the human being. In general, Heidegger considers it an objectification or even an elimination of the human being to approach a patient from a causal perspective. In our view Heidegger has overlooked the peculiar nature and complexity of Psychotherapy and Psychiatry, namely that Psychiatry is not just a discipline that combines a hermeneutical approach and a natural science approach on a theoretical level, but it also deals with psychopathology in practice. We argue, also referring to Strawson and Gadamer, that in psychiatric practice causal explanation and hermeneutic understanding are no mutually exclusive approaches. We conclude that the encounter of philosophy and Psychiatry in matters of causality and motivation could be particularly fruitful when the practical situation is addressed, recognizing the special character of psychopathology.
Gottfried Fischer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Sexual assaults in therapeutic relationships: prevalence, risk factors and consequences
Health, 2010Co-Authors: Christiane Eichenberg, Monika Becker-fischer, Gottfried FischerAbstract:A law has been passed in Germany (paragraph 174c StGB), which prohibits therapists from having sexual contact with their patients. This provides the background for a follow-up survey to the previous study completed by Becker- Fischer and Fischer in 1995. The results of this survey are discussed here on the basis of the current status of research concerning preva- lence and risk factors of sexual assaults in therapeutic relationships. The focus of the re- search lies in determining the specific condi- tions of sexual assaults in Psychotherapy and Psychiatry, risk variables of the therapists and patients, the effects it has on the patients as well as the legal consequences it results in. To en- sure the comparability of the data, an online version of the Questionnaire about Sexual Con- tacts in Psychotherapy and Psychiatry (SKPP; Becker-Fischer, Fischer & Jerouschek) was cre- ated and a survey of N = 77 affected patients was conducted. The majority of the participants in the study reported a serious decline in their overall well being following the incident. How- ever only very few undertook legal steps - only in three cases did it come to a legal procedure. The assumption that sexual contacts in psy- chotherapy result in extremely damaging con- sequences to patients, was affirmed. Despite the changed legal situation, therapists in Ger- many are still not held legally responsible more often than they were 10 years ago. Based on these results a more intensive education of the patients concerning their legal rights is recom- mended.
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Sexuell assaults in therapeutic relationships: risk factors, consequences and legal steps
Psychotherapie Psychosomatik medizinische Psychologie, 2008Co-Authors: Christiane Eichenberg, Judith Dorniak, Gottfried FischerAbstract:About 10 years ago, an initial empirical study was conducted in Germany about this topic. Since then, a penal code, paragraph 174 c StGB, was decreed, prohibiting sexual contact between therapists and their patients. A current follow-up survey was conducted in order to determine whether the results of previous surveys concerning situation conditions and after-effects converge with current results and if so, to what extent. Secondly, the survey was conducted to determine whether or not changes in the way the involved patients and authorities deal with this type of incident are evident. To ensure the comparability of the data, an online version of the Questionnaire about Sexual Contacts in Psychotherapy and Psychiatry (SKPP; Becker-Fischer, Fischer u. Jerouschek) was created and a survey of N = 77 affected patients was conducted. The majority of the participants in the study reported a serious decline in their overall well being following the incident, however, only very few undertook legal steps; only in three cases did it come to a legal procedure. The assumption that sexual contacts in Psychotherapy result in extremely damaging consequences to patients, which the first study already revealed, was affirmed in the follow-up examination. Despite the changed legal situation, however, therapists in Germany are still not held legally responsible more often than they were 10 years ago.
