Category: Mental Health
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PANS and PANDAS: Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome or Disorders Associated with Streptococcal
PANS and PANDAS are two relatively uncommon and not well-known syndromes that occur in children… PANDAS stands for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcus. Quite a mouthful! What it represents is disorders that onset after a strep infection causes an autoimmune response that causes neuropsychiatric signs and symptoms. Most often, this condition will be…
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Nursing Leadership Essay: Emotional intelligence and competency
Emotions: Not Obsolete In the Workplace Emotions: Not Obsolete In the Workplace A product of the industrial era, traditional leadership styles still reign dominant within healthcare systems answering to systemic pressures, rather than ensuring best patient health outcomes (Weberg, 2012). A consistent finding in current nursing literature is the importance of emotional competency…
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Sharing Another’s Journey: Peter’s Stroke Journey
Peter had a stroke in March of 2018, just 6 months after he had retired. Over the last 4 years, The then 59-year-old has taken his readers along his journey to find his new normal. He experienced a stroke while gardening and being of a nursing background, he knew exactly what had taken place when…
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Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Session Three. Distress Tolerance Strategies
Teaching yourself how to be able to relax, accept, distract, and self-sooth. It is a huge undertaking, but you can do it. We do not graduate primary school in one sitting. We do not learn division in one day—we begin by learning what numbers actually are. Learning how to rest, accept situations, distract ourselves, and/or…
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy Session Two
Let’s work on some distress tolerance skills. You might find that you have coped with stressors in unhealth ways. This is not a flaw in yourself, this is just a symptom of not having been given tools to help. Let’s first begin by asking you a few questions: What kind of self destructive coping strategies…
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Session One. Psychology (P)Saturday: DBT and Phenomena
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) was developed in 1993 by Marsha Linehan and aims at helping people cope with extreme and overwhelming emotions. It is particularly good for people with anxiety disorders and certain personality disorders. Most personality disorders are a direct result of childhood trauma. If you find yourself with a diagnosis of a personality…
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Gut-Brain Axis: Link Between Mental Health and Our Gut Health
According to a 2015 article published in the annals of gastroenterology, the gut-brain axis consists of “bidirectional communication between the central and the enteric nervous system, linking emotional and cognitive centers of the brain with peripheral intestinal functions.” The central nervous system being the brain and spinal cord, whereas the enteric nervous system includes nerves…