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In the first randomized trial of art therapy for asthma, National Jewish Health researchers found that children with persistent asthma enjoyed decreased anxiety and increased quality of life after seven weekly art-therapy sessions.It can be a terrifying experience when an asthma attack closes down a child's airways and makes the simple act of breathing a life-threatening struggle. The fear and anxiety associated with an asthma attack can last long after the attack has subsided. The research,...

Moderate to severely depressed clients showed greater improvement in cognitive therapy when therapists emphasized changing how they think rather than how they behave, new research has found.The results suggest cognitive therapists should concentrate, at least during the first few sessions, on using cognitive techniques to help those with more severe depression to break out of negative thought patterns and to see events in their lives more realistically.The study found that a concentration on...

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- While most New Year's resolutions revolve around changing your outward appearance by losing weight or hitting the gym, the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) encourages people to rethink their New Year's resolutions this year to focus inward on their emotional health in 2010. It's no secret that 2009 was a difficult year. Americans suffered from record unemployment, the mortgage crisis, plunging markets and shrinking...

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Results of a recent survey reveal that, despite an increase in stress, fewer Americans use therapy as a way to manage it. The results of the annual "Stress in America" survey by the American Psychological Association, released last week, found that while 85 percent of Americans say their stress level has remained the same or increased in the past year, just 4 percent of people use therapy as a way to combat that stress. This reflects a decrease in...

CHICAGO, July 31 /PRNewswire/ -- The calming strokes of a paint brush and the expression of dance and movement have an incredible ability to soothe, heal and inspire. Experiential and expressive therapies, such as art therapy, dance and movement therapy and equine therapy, have the power to address a variety of mental health and behavioral issues including substance abuse, eating disorders, abuse issues, depression, anxiety, relationship problems and communication needs. At Timberline...

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The US Senate recently introduced legislation that would increase access to physical therapy services for Medicare beneficiaries by removing the need for a physician's referral or certification of the plan of care in those states in which direct access is authorized, says the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). Under the Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act (S 950), introduced by Senators Blanche Lincoln (D-AR),...

Theratechnologies (TSX: TH) announced today that new 26-week data from a combined analysis of both its Phase 3 clinical trials testing tesamorelin in HIV-associated lipodystrophy were presented as a poster (Poster Number 19) at the 10th International Workshop on Adverse Drug Reactions and Lipodystrophy in HIV, in London, England. The results of the combined Phase 3 trials presented at this HIV-focused workshop indicate that a daily administration of 2 mg of tesamorelin is beneficial in...

Individual or group cognitive behavioral therapy is effective to reduce depressive disorders, anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder, U.S. officials said. A review of dozens of studies was conducted by the Task Force on Community Preventive Services, an independent group of scientists. Task force report author Robert Hahn of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that cognitive therapy focuses on a person?s thoughts and beliefs and aims to change a person?s distorted...

In a recent review of a dozen different studies, researchers found that many doctors are using unproven methods to help children suffering from trauma. Researchers of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found no evidence to prove that alternative therapies, such as drugs, art or play therapy helped children traumatized by violence or abuse, even though more than 75 percent of U.S. mental health professionals who treat children and teens with post traumatic stress disorder may...

A University of Granada study confirms the usefulness of art therapy to treat mental disease, Spanish researchers said. Elizaberta Lopez Perez said her study is based on psychoanalysis principles. Art therapy is based on the idea that visual representations, objectified through plastic material, contribute to the construction of a meaning of the psychic conflicts, and favor its resolution. Lopez Perez worked for more than one year with 20 acute mental patients from the Therapeutic...