You feel good inside, forgetting the day of problems and worries you just had. ... "Until World War II music in therapy continued to be used as a general treatment, a soporific, good for the soul, and morale builder. ... Later, the therapist tended to disregard music in lieu of a one-to-one relationship with the patient using psychotherapeutic techniques. ... "(Music Therapy is) used in the therapeutic relationship to facilitate contact, interaction, self-awareness, learning, self-expression, communication, and personal development."" ... These goals can range from communication, social sk...

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This provides us with a deeper connection to ourselves and opens up the channel of communication between our minds and our bodies, which gives us a greater capacity for listening and responding to the various messages and signals that our bodies send us, such as pain or unease, which, if ignored, simply escalate into more serious conditions or illnesses. ... This technique can help to dissolve the fear and panic around the pain and can help us to 'make friends' with it by bringing loving attention and awareness to the situation, which ultimately causes some form of change. ... Breat...

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Thus, providing evidence-informed techniques and interventions such as tangible rewards, praise, time-out, and commands/limit setting would help manage the impulsive behaviors of children. ... Educational activities which are consequent on academic performance of students should be tailored in a sound techniques and interventions. ... He showed good grasp of test directives, quietly did the tasks that were required of him, and spoke only when he was asked a question. ... He shows good understanding of numerical concepts and their application in personal and social problem-solving situations. ...

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The use of subliminal stimuli in advertising scares many; yet this technique is frequently used as a desirable means of contacting, tinkering with, and some may even say manipulating people's minds. ... Many people reacted skeptically when first hearing of the technique, asking, "what's the point of an ad you can't see?" ... The reaction of the public to having subliminal advertising thrust upon them was not a good one. ... He believed that it was this language that actually produced the profit basis for North American mass communication media. ...

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Mental health practitioners have incorporated elements of Freudian thought and technique into their approaches to helping patients as part of cultural background and experience of nearly every client (Cardwell, et al., 2004). ... Techniques like behaviour analysis, behavioral modification and token economies are being used to help children learn new skills and overcome maladaptive behaviors, while conditioning is used in many situations ranging from parenting to education (Cardwell, et al., 2004). ... It has been criticized for low ecological validity, not recognizing mental processes and of s...

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Another prevention technique is to incorporate the subject into a class such as health, physical education, or even a social science class. ... They are taught how to relay the message to resist negative social pressures to diet, overeat, or engage in other unhealthy behaviors through the development of self-esteem and skills such as assertiveness, decision-making, and communication. ... The school-based program is a good idea, but is only efficient if the school staff is properly trained in awareness and prevention and also if the students have access to counseling if they begin to have a p...

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In fact, for a good many years, ADHD was called "minimal brain dysfunction" and was thought to be caused by a minor head injury, complications from birth, or an early infection. ... Another technique is the introduction of "feedback" to the child. ... The parent serves as the hub in the communication wheel, coordinating and directing the flow of information among all the participants in the treatment plan. ...

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