A significant amount of news coverage has been given to “Generation Y,” or “The Millennial Generation” – most often considered to be individuals born between 1980 and 1994. Growing up in the 21st century entails greater privilege and greater hardship than previous generations have faced. One thing’s for sure – members of this generation are needed to fill critical healthcare job gaps, one of which just might be massage therapy.
Massage therapy is recognized by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) as a growing career, and one with benefits beyond the immediately obvious. The massage therapy education trains students to have a comprehensive understanding of human anatomy and physiology, which is essential for effective massage treatment. The scientific background of the massage therapy certification program allows students of massage to understand how different body parts and systems work together – and how, if one system is out of whack, a massage client can feel ill or out-of-sorts all over.
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Cognitive behavioral therapy is an approach used by psychotherapists to influence a patient’s behaviors and emotions. The key to the approach is in its procedure which must be systematic. It has been used successfully to treat a variety of disorders including eating disorders, substance abuse, anxiety and personality disorders. It can be used in individual or group therapy sessions and the approach can also be geared towards self help therapy.
Cognitive behavioral therapy is a combination of traditional behavioral therapy and cognitive therapy. They are combined into a treatment that is focused on symptom removal. The effectiveness of the treatment can clearly be judged based on its results. The more it is used, the more it has become recommended. It is now used as the number one treatment technique for post traumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, depression and bulimia.
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I’m in the midst of reading a fascinating book by Philip Alcabes. The very title, “Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu” gives me fodder for at least one article without even reading the book.
There is so much fuel for thought in this book, that you will have the opportunity to read several articles as my mental juices are stimulated.
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