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But therapy is required to be confidential, except in cases of protecting a patient from self-harm or from hurting others.
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Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2022
Seeking therapy ranked third on the list of resolutions, a pleasant surprise to licensed psychologist Julie Cerel, the director of the Suicide Prevention and Exposure Lab at the University of Kentucky.
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Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 21 Dec. 2022
The third was the head of canine therapy at Eskenazi Hospital.
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The Indianapolis Star, 21 Dec. 2022
Oscar de la Renta frock took center stage in the final season of The Good Fight when the lawyer casually walks through the plaza filled with riot police after receiving psilocybin drug therapy.
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Emma Fraser And Sophie Brookover, Town & Country, 21 Dec. 2022
Another red light therapy option for home use is the HGPRO300 by Hooga Health.
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Omaid Homayun, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
The pair grew closer in 2012, stepping out more frequently together with Kourtney and pal Jonathan Cheban for afternoons of retail therapy or nights out on the town.
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Staff Author, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2022
Community clinics and nonprofits that provide no-cost or low-cost therapy often have months-long waiting lists.
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Laura Newberrystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2022
In short, hair oil can be regarded as a dose of scalp and hair therapy that will improve the look and health of the hair.
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Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Dec. 2022
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therapy
Psychological therapies, family treatments and vocational rehabilitation are described.
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However, all researchers agree that both elements are required if we are to understand the potential role and limitations of a specific psychological therapy.
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A basic requirement in studies of the benefits of a psychological treatment is information on the conduct of the therapy itself.
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However, cases of akathisia due to tricyclic antidepressants used as adjuvant analgesic therapy have not previously been reported.
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Alternatively, a manualized and structured therapy may have brought about more improvement or a therapy using a different theoretical orientation.
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Long-term follow-up from larger studies into particle therapy is required to confirm and record the expected reduction in late sequelae.
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No studies were available discussing patient perspectives on withdrawal of other life-sustaining therapies.
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The ability to direct therapy to specific molecular targets on cancer cells provides several advantages over standard chemotherapy, including higher specificity and reduced systemic toxicity.
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Effectiveness of targeting the vulnerability factors of depression in cognitive therapy.
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Treatment solutions are typically constructed with combinations of complementary therapies, or combinations of complementary therapies and orthodox health services.
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The role of antibiotic therapy in women at risk of early delivery is unclear.
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Monitoring diabetes control is essential from diagnosis as the information received provides valuable feedback as to the effectiveness of therapies.
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The patient wanted to know what additional systemic therapy was needed in view of her residual disease at the time of mastectomy.
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However, neuroleptic therapy is frequently accompanied by serious, sometimes permanent, side effects.
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In the patient groups receiving active drug therapy (velnacrine maleate), an improvement was observed in their cognitive functioning relative to the placebo group.
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Abstract
Purpose
Multimodal therapy is a frequent term in aphasia literature, but it has no agreed upon definition. Phrases such as “multimodal therapy” and “multimodal treatment” are applied to a range of aphasia interventions as if mutually understood, and yet, the interventions reported in the literature differ significantly in methodology, approach, and aims. This inconsistency can be problematic for researchers, policy makers, and clinicians accessing the literature and potentially compromises data synthesis and meta-analysis. A literature review was conducted to examine what types of aphasia treatment are labeled multimodal and determine whether any patterns are present.
Method
A systematic search was conducted to identify literature pertaining to aphasia that included the term multimodal therapy (and variants). Sources included literature databases, dissertation databases, textbooks, professional association websites, and Google Scholar.
Results
Thirty-three original articles were identified, as well as another 31 sources referring to multimodal research, all of which used a variant of the term multimodal therapy. Treatments had heterogeneous aims, underlying theories, and methods. The rationale for using more than 1 modality was not always clear, nor was the reason each therapy was considered to be multimodal when similar treatments had not used the title. Treatments were noted to differ across 2 key features. The 1st was whether the ultimate aim of intervention was to improve total communication, as in augmentative and alternative communication approaches, or to improve 1 specific modality, as when gesture is used to improve word retrieval. The 2nd was the point in the treatment that the nonspeech modalities were employed.
Discussion
Our review demonstrated that references to “multimodal” treatments represent very different therapies with little consistency. We propose a framework to define and categorize multimodal treatments, which is based both on our results and on current terminology in speech-language pathology.
Video Abstract and Supplemental Material
https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.7646717
Meaning Therapy, also known as meaning-centered counseling and therapy, is an integrative, positive existential approach to counseling and psychotherapy. Originated from logotherapy, Meaning Therapy employs personal meaning as its central organizing construct and assimilates various schools of psychotherapy to achieve its therapeutic goal. Meaning Therapy focuses on the positive psychology of making life worth living in spite of sufferings and limitations. It advocates a psycho-educational approach to equip clients with the tools to navigate the inevitable negatives in human existence and create a preferred future. The paper first introduces the defining characteristics and assumptions of Meaning Therapy. It then briefly describes the conceptual frameworks and the major intervention strategies. In view of Meaning Therapy’s open, flexible and integrative approach, it can be adopted either as a comprehensive method in its own right or as an adjunct to any system of psychotherapy.
therapy
Therapy is the act of caring for someone, or the method of caring. If you have a rare disease, your doctor’s therapy will hopefully cure you.
Therapy comes from the Greek θεραπεία, for “healing.” If someone tells you she’s “in therapy,” she’s probably talking about a psychological kind of healing. But if she’s getting physical therapy, then she’s getting help with a bone or muscle problem. If someone suggests an experimental therapy, that’s a mode of treatment that’s new. Sometimes if something non-medical makes you feel better, we call it a kind of therapy. You might like chocolate therapy, for example.
Radiation therapy (also called radiotherapy) is a cancer treatment that uses high doses of radiation to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. At low doses, radiation is used in x-rays to see inside your body, as with x-rays of your teeth or broken bones.
How radiation therapy works against cancer
At high doses, radiation therapy kills cancer cells or slows their growth by damaging their DNA. Cancer cells whose DNA is damaged beyond repair stop dividing or die. When the damaged cells die, they are broken down and removed by the body.
Radiation therapy does not kill cancer cells right away. It takes days or weeks of treatment before DNA is damaged enough for cancer cells to die. Then, cancer cells keep dying for weeks or months after radiation therapy ends.
Types of radiation therapy
There are two main types of radiation therapy, external beam and internal.
The type of radiation therapy that you may have depends on many factors, including:
- the type of cancer
- the size of the tumor
- the tumor’s location in the body
- how close the tumor is to normal tissues that are sensitive to radiation
- your general health and medical history
- whether you will have other types of cancer treatment
- other factors, such as your age and other medical conditions
External beam radiation therapy
External beam radiation therapy comes from a machine that aims radiation at your cancer. The machine is large and may be noisy. It does not touch you, but can move around you, sending radiation to a part of your body from many directions.
External beam radiation therapy is a local treatment, which means it treats a specific part of your body. For example, if you have cancer in your lung, you will have radiation only to your chest, not to your whole body.
Learn more about external beam radiation therapy.
Internal radiation therapy
Internal radiation therapy is a treatment in which a source of radiation is put inside your body. The radiation source can be solid or liquid.
Internal radiation therapy with a solid source is called brachytherapy. In this type of treatment, seeds, ribbons, or capsules that contain a radiation source are placed in your body, in or near the tumor. Like external beam radiation therapy, brachytherapy is a local treatment and treats only a specific part of your body.
With brachytherapy, the radiation source in your body will give off radiation for a while.
Learn more about brachytherapy.
Internal radiation therapy with a liquid source is called systemic therapy. Systemic means that the treatment travels in the blood to tissues throughout your body, seeking out and killing cancer cells. You receive systemic radiation therapy by swallowing, through a vein via an IV line, or through an injection.
With systemic radiation, your body fluids, such as urine, sweat, and saliva, will give off radiation for a while.
Radiation-Based Drugs Emerging as Cancer Therapies
Radiopharmaceuticals deliver radiation therapy directly and specifically to cancer cells.
Why people with cancer receive radiation therapy
Radiation therapy is used to treat cancer and ease cancer symptoms.
When used to treat cancer, radiation therapy can cure cancer, prevent it from returning, or stop or slow its growth.
When treatments are used to ease symptoms, they are known as palliative treatments. External beam radiation may shrink tumors to treat pain and other problems caused by the tumor, such as trouble breathing or loss of bowel and bladder control. Pain from cancer that has spread to the bone can be treated with systemic radiation therapy drugs called radiopharmaceuticals.
Types of cancer that are treated with radiation therapy
External beam radiation therapy is used to treat many types of cancer.
Brachytherapy is most often used to treat cancers of the head and neck, breast, cervix, prostate, and eye.
A systemic radiation therapy called radioactive iodine, or I-131, is most often used to treat certain types of thyroid cancer.
Another type of systemic radiation therapy, called targeted radionuclide therapy, is used to treat some patients who have advanced prostate cancer or gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (GEP-NET). This type of treatment may also be referred to as molecular radiotherapy.
How radiation is used with other cancer treatments
For some people, radiation may be the only treatment you need. But, most often, you will have radiation therapy with other cancer treatments, such as surgery, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy. Radiation therapy may be given before, during, or after these other treatments to improve the chances that treatment will work. The timing of when radiation therapy is given depends on the type of cancer being treated and whether the goal of radiation therapy is to treat the cancer or ease symptoms.
When radiation is combined with surgery, it can be given:
- Before surgery, to shrink the size of the cancer so it can be removed by surgery and be less likely to return.
- During surgery, so that it goes straight to the cancer without passing through the skin. Radiation therapy used this way is called intraoperative radiation. With this technique, doctors can more easily protect nearby normal tissues from radiation.
- After surgery to kill any cancer cells that remain.
Lifetime dose limits
There is a limit to the amount of radiation an area of your body can safely receive over the course of your lifetime. Depending on how much radiation an area has already been treated with, you may not be able to have radiation therapy to that area a second time. But, if one area of the body has already received the safe lifetime dose of radiation, another area might still be treated if the distance between the two areas is large enough.
Radiation therapy can cause side effects
Radiation not only kills or slows the growth of cancer cells, it can also affect nearby healthy cells. Damage to healthy cells can cause side effects.
Learn more about the side effects of radiation therapy.
How much radiation therapy costs
Radiation therapy can be expensive. It uses complex machines and involves the services of many health care providers. The exact cost of your radiation therapy depends on the cost of health care where you live, what type of radiation therapy you get, and how many treatments you need.
Talk with your health insurance company about what services it will pay for. Most insurance plans pay for radiation therapy. To learn more, talk with the business office at the clinic or hospital where you go for treatment. If you need financial assistance, there are organizations that may be able to help. To find such organizations, go to the National Cancer Institute database, Organizations that Offer Support Services and search for “financial assistance.” Or call toll-free 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237) to ask for information on organizations that may help.
Special diet needs while on radiation therapy
Radiation can cause side effects that make it hard to eat, such as nausea, mouth sores, and throat problems called esophagitis. Since your body uses a lot of energy to heal during radiation therapy, it is important that you eat enough calories and protein to maintain your weight during treatment.
If you are having trouble eating and maintaining your weight, talk to your doctor or nurse. You might also find it helpful to speak with a dietitian. For more information about coping with eating problems see the booklet Eating Hints or read more about side effects.
Working during radiation therapy
Some people are able to work full-time during radiation therapy. Others can work only part-time or not at all. How much you are able to work depends on how you feel. Ask your doctor or nurse what you may expect from the treatment you will have.
You are likely to feel well enough to work when you first start your radiation treatments. As time goes on, do not be surprised if you are more tired, have less energy, or feel weak. Once you have finished treatment, it may take just a few weeks for you to feel better—or it could take months.
You may get to a point during your radiation therapy when you feel too sick to work. Talk with your employer to find out if you can go on medical leave. Check that your health insurance will pay for treatment while you are on medical leave.
