Hasil untuk "Therapeutics. Psychotherapy"

Nonkululeko Vilakazi

This ethnographic study examines the integration of multicultural bereavement rituals – including South African Zulu mourning practices, Hindu funeral and mourning rites and Muslim burial customs – within the Sesame dramatherapy framework. Conducted in London, United Kingdom, with children and young persons permanently residing there, the study foregrounds the triadic positionality of the researcher as practitioner, scholar and bereaved client. The ethnographic inquiry examines three culturally situated bereavement cases as illustrative exemplars, including researcher reflexivity. In each case, participants faced disruptions to culturally significant mourning practices due to circumstantial constraints. Through role-play and enactment of cultural bereavement rituals in dramatherapy sessions, symbolic and embodied engagement facilitated grief processing, meaning-making and psychosocial integration. The findings highlight how culturally responsive dramatherapy can mediate the impact of interrupted mourning rituals across diverse contexts while allowing the researcher to critically reflect on personal and clinical experiences of loss.

Sumra Bari, Nicole L. Vike, Byoung-Woo Kim et al.

Abstract Substance use disorder (SUD) is characterized by behaviors of impaired control, physical dependence, social impairments, and risky use, regardless of the substance used—yet no prior work has predicted these behaviors directly. This study of 3476 adults used 15 judgment variables, derived from a picture rating task, with contextual variables to predict the SUD-defining behaviors, recency of four categories of substances being used, and SUD severity. This study achieved up to 83% accuracy and 0.74 AUC ROC for SUD behavior and moderate-high prediction for substance use with a balanced random forest approach, and 84% accuracy for predicting SUD severity. Judgment variable profiles revealed that participants with higher SUD severity are more risk-seeking, less resilient to losses, have more approach behavior, and have less variance in preference. This study argues that distinct constellations of 15 judgment variables yield a scalable system for addiction assessment, which can support research across a broad range of addictions.

Oliver Green, Paula Collens

Adult psychotherapy and counselling are often described as “talking therapies”, yet much of what is communicated occurs non-verbally. Reviewing literature from the domains of music, neuroscience, infant studies, psychotherapy, and counselling, this paper explores the implicit musicality that is embedded within and constitutes human communication, and how this informs the therapeutic encounter. The paper draws on the concept of communicative musicality (CM) as a framework for understanding verbal communication in therapy, as this has been under-explored. Two interrelated elements are discussed: the musicality of speech and the rhythms of relational exchange (entitled “rhythm in relating”). These two dimensions of communication may offer a medium for connection, attunement, and co-regulation, in addition to providing insight into the client’s relational and developmental history. Psychotherapy and counselling are presented as fundamentally musical, embodied, and temporal, where meaning is co-created not only through words, but through the musicality of communication. This paper explores elements of music, vocal timbre, dynamics and melodic contours, dissonance and consonance, along with the embodied rhythms of sharing time, repetition, and improvisation, and rhythm in relating that express and constitute affective and interpersonal life. The study highlights how a sensitivity to the musical dimensions of therapeutic dialogue can deepen attunement to the client’s inner world, support relational repair, and enhance therapeutic presence. It proposes that psychotherapy and counselling education would benefit from including a CM-informed approach, enabling practitioners to listen not only to the lexical channel, but also to the musicality and rhythm of communication.

Leandro Drivet

En este trabajo reflexionamos sobre la relación humana actual con la naturaleza a partir de la última pandemia y de la situación de los animales en las granjas de producción intensiva. En la primera sección abordamos el origen milenario de las enfermedades masivas vinculado a la domesticación de animales. Luego, a partir del análisis de una pintura contemporánea de la colonización que nos pone en la perspectiva del ojo animal, exploramos la expansión y transformación de la dinámica humana hostil a la naturaleza que desemboca en el paradigma de las megagranjas. Concluimos interrogándonos por el sentido de los conceptos de “vida” y de “mundo” en la lógica de la producción intensiva, caracterizada por la forclusión de la vida silvestre.

Florencia Reali

La World Wide Web promete una vía hacia la democratización de la información. Sin embargo, si bien los medios online ofrecen espacios para la pluralidad y la diversidad de voces, las nuevas formas de difusión de noticias presentan riesgos: el colectivo tiende a constituirse en “cámaras de eco” donde los mensajes se refuerzan y distorsionan potenciando ideologías extremas de naturaleza totalitaria. Este artículo se pregunta por el goce del sujeto en el colectivo que crea y recibe noticias. Se visita “Psicología de las masas” de Freud y se revisan conceptos lacanianos sobre el riesgo de adoptar una lógica del todo fálico resonante con la promesa de armonía totalitaria en el contexto de la democratización digital.

Zoya Mehmood, Iqra Imtiaz, Duaa Farooq Shah et al.

Background: Smartphone have undeniably revolutionized our lives, there is growing concern regarding the addictive nature of these devices and the subsequent negative impacts on individuals and society. Objective: To determine the correlation of smart phone addiction with cervical flexors strength and joint proprioception among adolescents, to determine the frequency of joint position error and to assess the influence of excessive Smartphone usage on the muscles responsible for cervical flexion among adolescents. Methodology: A cross sectional survey was conducted on 377 students from various schools of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Students of both genders with age ranged from 12-18 years having a history of Smartphone addiction for more than 4 hours were included in the study. Whereas exclusion criteria was children with special needs, history of cervical trauma within a year, motor problem in upper extremity and vestibular pathologies and dizziness. Smartphone addiction scale short version was used to determine the addiction among participants. Cervical joint position error (CJPE) was performed to assess the cervical joint proprioception and strength of the cervical flexors muscles was evaluated by manual muscle testing (MMT) procedure. Data was analyzed using SPSS version-23. Results: Total 377 participants were included, out of which 184 (48.8%) were males and 193 (51.2%) were females. Mean value of Smart Phone Addiction Scale-Short version was 40.33 ±7.95. Correlation between Smart phone addiction and Joint position error was weak and non-significant. Correlation between Smart phone addiction and muscles of cervical region demonstrated that Sternocleidomastoid has a weak but significant (P-value 0.018) correlation (R-value 0.121) with smartphone usage, and remaining exhibited non-significant and very weak correlation. Conclusion: This study concluded that majority of the students had smart phone addiction leading to highest cervical joint position error in Right rotation and right-side bending. Whereas, non-significant weak correlations were observed between smartphone usage on cervical muscle strength and joint proprioception. Keywords: Adolescents, addiction, muscle strength, proprioception, smartphone

Rahel Julia Natali, Arthur Huwae

Sufferers of nephrotic syndrome can be found in both developed and developing countries. All individuals afflicted with nephrotic syndrome, including both children and adults, often experience a loss of hope and find it challenging to attain subjective well-being in their lives. Therefore, this research aims to determine the portrait of subjective well-being in people with nephrotic syndrome by examining the components and factors that influence subjective well-being. The method employed in this research is descriptive qualitative phenomenology. The data collection process in this study utilizes data triangulation, including observation, interviews, and document analysis. Data analysis was conducted using interactive data analysis methods. The findings of this study indicate that, in general, individuals suffering from nephrotic syndrome tend to have low subjective well-being or face difficulties in achieving it in their lives. This is primarily due to individuals being unable to fulfill the components and factors of subjective well-being, often experiencing higher negative affect than positive affect. Additionally, researchers have identified new factors that influence subjective well-being, namely lifestyle and self-confidence.

Fahimeh Rajaei, Akbar Atadokht, Nader Hajloo

The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of group poetry therapy an improving happiness in chronic schizophrenic patients. This experimental study was conducted with a pre-test-post-test design with the control group. The population consisted of patients hospitalized in treatment and rehabilitation centers in Ardabil (2017). Among them, 22 patients were selected and they were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. Eleven sessions of group poetry were performed for the experimental group and the control group did not receive any intervention. Oxford happiness questionnaire was used to collect data and the data were analyzed by single variable Covariance analysis through SPSS-22. The results showed that after controlling the pre-test effect, the mean scores of post-test of the patients in the experimental group were higher in happiness than the scores of the control group (p < 0.05). This indicates the effectiveness of group poetry therapy intervention on patients. This study showed that group poetry therapy as a non-pharmacological treatment is effective on chronic schizophrenic patients and can be used by clinical specialists in medical centers.

Garnik Kocharyan

The article describes a clinical case with a 17-year-old male patient, who presented complaints about presence of his homosexual desire. He believed that sexual orientation was pathology and existing statements about normality of homosexuality were political propaganda. He wanted to get rid of homosexuality, marry over time and have children. During an active inquiry he informed that the proportion of the homosexual component of his libido in its total structure was 90-95%, that of the heterosexual one being 5-10%. During his active inquiry the patient informed about presence of a minimally expressed heterosexual component, still our comprehensive analysis of his psychosexual development, sexual behavioral manifestations and erotic dreams did not reveal any presence of the heterosexual component. Nevertheless, the latter might be present because from the very beginning the patient felt a slightly expressed sexual desire during heterosexual masturbation. The following correction was made: (1) cognitive influences targeted at strengthening of the patient’s opinion that it is normal to be heterosexual as opposed to homosexual; (2) aesthetic-erotic correction (viewing of beautiful women [naked and non-naked] using video materials for formation of the woman ideal); (3) hypnosuggestive correction of the sexual drive orientation with inclusion of the cognitive and behavioral (aversive) components; (4) prohibition of homosexually oriented masturbation and change over to heterosexually oriented one (sexual behavioral training targeted at reorientation of orientation of his sexual desire). Complete normalization of the patient’s health took place after 10 sessions of hypnosuggestive correction (programming, modelling) and retraining masturbation. The patient remained absolutely satisfied with the achieved results. This clinical observation demonstrates once more effectiveness of reparative therapy with absence of any complications. Here we should emphasize that such therapy can be given only on the voluntary basis.

Nurlaili Nurlaili, Jaenullah Jaenullah, Muhammad Zaini et al.

The purpose of this study was to find out the problems of learning carried out remotely or online for elementary school students in Adiwarno Village, Batanghari District, East Lampung Regency. Methods This research used a qualitative approach and the informants in this study were elementary school students, parents of elementary school students and elementary school teachers. Data were collected through interviews. This study concludes that: learning that is carried out remotely or commonly referred to as online learning has a negative impact as well as a positive impact on students, teachers and even parents. Not a few students complain about being bored in online learning, teachers complain about ineffective learning and parents complain about being unprepared to accompany their children to study at home.

Agatha Trisia Veronica Tampombebu, Sutarto Wijono

This study aims to determine the relationship between resilience and work stress on employees at PT.X who work during the covid-19 pandemic. Participants in this study were employees who served as supervisors at PT.X with a total population of 37 participants. The method used in this study is a quantitative approach, with a non-probability sampling technique, namely a saturated sampling technique by taking the entire population of 37 participants. Measurement of resilience uses the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) with a cronbach alpha of 0.917, while to measure work stress uses the work stress scale of Robbins & Judge (2013) with a cronbach alpha of 0.861. The scale is distributed in the form of a questionnaire, with data analysis using IBM SPSS Statistics version 21 and correlation test using Karl Pearson's Product Moment. the results of data analysis obtained a correlation coefficient r = - 0.380 with a sign value = 0.010 (p <0.05), indicating that the results obtained were significant negative, which means there is a significant negative correlation between resilience and work stress. The higher the resilience, the lower the work stress, and vice versa.

Fitri Hidayati, Rahmaniah Rahmaniah

Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian korelasional dengan pendekatan kuantitatif. Pengumpulan data dalam penelitian ini dengan menggunakan kuesioner penelitian dan analisis data menggunakan analisis regresi linier sederhana dan berganda dengan bantuan SPSS 23.Hasil penelitian yang telah dilakukan melalui uji hipotesis dapat disimpulkan bahwa terdapat pengaruh antara pola asuh orangtua terhadap perilaku keagamaan siswa sebesar 0,384 tergolong rendah. Pengaruh lingkungan tempat tinggal terhadap perilaku keagamaan siswa sebesar 0,594 tergolong sedang. Pengaruh teman sebaya terhadap perilaku keagamaan siswa sebesar 0,503 tergolong sedang. Pengaruh pola asuh orangtua dan lingkungan tempat tinggal terhadap perilaku keagamaan siswa sebesar 0,579 tergolong sedang. Pengaruh pola asuh orangtua dan teman sebaya terhadap perilaku keagamaan siswa sebesar 0,555 tergolong sedang. Pengaruh lingkungan tempat tinggal dan teman sebaya terhadap perilaku keagamaan siswa sebesar 0,595 tergolong sedang. Pengaruh pola asuh orangtua, lingkungan tempat tinggal dan teman sebaya terhadap perilaku keagamaan siswa secara bersama- sama diperoleh 0,615 tergolong kuat. Dengan demikian terdapat pengaruh antara pola asuh orangtua, lingkungan tempat tinggal, dan teman sebaya terhadap perilaku keagamaan siswa muslim di SMAN se-Kota Palangka Raya.

Cristina Barandiarán Piedra

Kate Evans

Using writing as a means of inquiry, I aim to analyse a change over-time in my creative writing and consider what this change tells me about myself. In doing so, I endeavour to explore creative writing as both a research and a therapeutic tool and to be innovative in the presentation of research. I intend to encourage all therapists, academics and researchers to uninhibitedly dive into their creative selves in order to become more reflexive and gain understanding, as well as for the pure enjoyment of it.

Fatima Muhammad Zahid, Humna Faheem, Umama Haq

Background: Neck pain is very common in Pakistani population and students are at risk neck pain because of change in life style. The aim was to determine the prevalence of neck pain in Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Objective: This survey was conducted to find out the prevalence of neck pain in heighted students of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Methodology: A cross sectional study was used to determine the prevalence of neck pain in heighted students of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. A sample size of 250 was selected from 15th February 2013 to 15th April 2013. A self-constructed questionnaire comprising of 16 questions was used to collect data regarding the prevalence of neck pain in heighted students. Data was analyzed on SPSS 19. Results: Out of 250 students 93 students reported that they have neck pain which shows 37.2% (F=24.8%, M=12.4%) prevalence of neck pain in heighted students. Out of 93 students, 41.9% showed neck pain aggravating on prolonged sitting. Among 93 respondents there are 67.7% reported that on lying down supine the symptoms were relieved. There are 56.9% out of 93 suffered students stated that they do not have comfortable setup. There are 88.17% students out of 93 who have pain did not go for the treatment of neck pain. Conclusion: Most of the heighted students had no neck pain. The students suffering from neck pain were mostly females ranging from height 5.6-5.7 and then the males of height 5.10-5.11. Maximum number of students reported neck pain due to prolonged sitting and lying down supine being a relieving factor. The study also clearly throws an impact on the setup of a community. Most of the students having neck pain did not go for any treatment. Key Words: Height, Neck Pain, Students

Rosa Liliana López

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Marye O'Reilly-Knapp, Richard G. Erskine

This article describes the script system with a case study to illustrate the four primary components: script beliefs; behavioral, fantasy and physiological manifestations; reinforcing experiences; and the intrapsychic process of repressed needs and feelings. The article was originally published in Life Scripts: A Transactional Analysis of Unconscious Relational Patterns, edited by Richard G. Erskine, reprinted with kind permission of Karnac Books.

R. Wasserman, Kenneth N. Levy, E. Loken

S. Budman, A. Demby, M. Feldstein et al.