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Promoting Prevention, Mitigation and Healing from Childhood Adversity
No full textEvidence shows that adverse childhood experiences (ACE) have a negative relationship to poor health outcomes as an adult. Protective factors, such as having a safe, secure, and nurturing relationship (SSNR) have proven to help prevent these long-term effects. Families require support and education to establish a SSNR to prevent, mitigate, and heal these childhood traumas. In order to create opportunities for support and education, barriers, both visible and invisible, will be determined to better understand what resources could be required
The Evolution, Application and Ethical Considerations of Body-Oriented Psychotherapy
No full textThis capstone will address the evolution, application, and ethical considerations of body-oriented psychotherapy. A historical overview of the mind-body connection indicates an evolution from the segregation denoted by Descartes dualistic perspective to one of integration due to advancements in the field of neuroscience and trauma therapy. Research from neuroscience indicates that trauma causes physiological and biochemical effects on the body that create a shift in a client's nervous system state, in turn impacting their perception as well as behaviour (and vice versa). The nervous system is wired to respond to threat and fear in predictable and hierarchical ways. Thus, when a clients trauma symptoms and behaviours are viewed from a neurobiological lens, the usage of pathologizing labels diminishes and the focus in therapy becomes finding ways to bring the bodies nervous system back into balance. This capstone will provide research as well as clinical application for two body-oriented approaches that aim to renegotiate this balance: the Polyvagal Theory and Somatic Experiencing (SE). This capstone will also disseminate the ethical implications and considerations surrounding the utilization of touch as a body-orientated intervention
Grief and Loss in the Time of COVID-19
No full textThis paper reviews a variety of literature about grief and loss in the time of COVID-19. Grief is considered in relation to death loss and non-death loss. This paper uses both qualitative and quantitative literature to review the experiences of loss and grief in the adult population. It considers the implications for mental health care workers working with this population in a post COVID-19 individual therapy setting. It is shown that there are unique traumatic factors related to the experience of death loss during the pandemic, be it death due to COVID-19 or other causes, resulting in an increase in complicated grief. It is also shown that non-death losses are a pervasive experience of the pandemic, though many are not readily acknowledged as significant, resulting in disenfranchised grief that may be misdiagnosed as anxiety and depression. This paper expands on concepts of grief and loss as they pertain to the COVID-19 pandemic and presents therapists with a five-pillar approach to consider when working with clients who are navigating the difficult challenges of grief and loss
Build a Todo List App in Command-Line Interface with Python
Get PDFBuilding and using the CLI app can fulfill any users who have desired to use advanced features for multitasking, scripting, automating, and highly customizing compared to the GUI app. CLI has more to offer in scale and better control over system functions with less memory usage. This paper will analyze the reason we choose CLI, what we will be using, and how we build it differently
