Therapy

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In this paper, I aim to explore and analyse the use of stem cells, gain an understanding of how they work, discover their potential and look at the intense debate which surrounds the issue, with an unbiased approach.
Inside an embryo no bigger than the full stop at the end of this sentence are dozens of stem cells. (*) Initially, these cells are blank slates, meaning that their fate is undecided, they have great potential. Stem cells are pluripotent, meaning they are capable of becoming any of the more than 200 types of specialized cells in our bodies.
Their almost limitless potential has no doubt attracted a lot of media attention and also made stem cells a significant focus of medical research. Imagine having the ability to return memory to an Alzheimer’s patient, restore skin that was previously lost during a fatal accident, or to enable a wheelchair-bound person to walk again. These are the scientist’s intentions however before scientists can use stem cells for medical purposes, they must first learn how to manipulate stem cells to get them to develop into specific tissues or organs.

What Is a Stem Cell?

A stem cell is basically the building block of the human body. The stem cells contained in embryos, eventually give rise to every cell, organ and tissue in the fetus’ body. Unlike a regular cell, which can only replicate to create more its own kind of cell, a stem cell is pluripotent, meaning they are capable of becoming any of the more than 220 types of specialized cells in our bodies. Stem cells also have the ability to self renew- they can produce themselves many times over.

Types of Cells:
There are two types of stem cells: embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells. Embryonic stem cells come from an embryo – the mass of cells in the earliest stage of human development that, if implanted into a woman’s womb, will eventually develop into a fetus. When the embryo is between three and five days old, it contains the stem cells in which are busily working to produce the various organs and tissues that will soon make up the fetus.
Adults also have stem cells in the heart, brain, bone marrow, lungs and other organs. They are our built-in repair kits, regenerating cells damaged by disease, injury and everyday wear and tear. Adult stem cells were once believed to be more limited than stem cells, only giving rise to the same type of tissue from which they originated. But new research suggests that adult stem cells may have the potential to generate other types of cells, as well. For example, liver cells may be coaxed to produce insulin, which is normally made by the pancreas. This capability is known as plasticity or transdifferentiation. So where do scientists get the stem cells they use in their research?

How to get human embryos
Embryos can either be made via reproduction – merging sperm and egg – or by cloning. Researchers aren’t likely to create an embryo with sperm and egg, but many use fertilized embryos from fertility clinics. Sometimes, couples who are trying to have a baby create several fertilized embryos and don’t implant them all. They may donate the ones that are left over to science.
Another way to create an embryo is via a technique called therapeutic cloning. This technique merges a cell (from the patient who needs the stem cell therapy) with a donor egg. The nucleus is removed from the egg and replaced with the nucleus of the patient’s cell. This egg is encouraged to divide either chemically or with electricity, and the resulting embryo carries the patient’s genetic material, which significantly reduces the risk that his or her body will reject the stem cells once they are implanted.

How to Make Stem cells

Embryonic stem cells are derived from blastocyst – embryos that are about a week old. At this stage, the blastocyst has about 100 cells. In order to get embryonic stem cell lines, scientists remove the cells from the inner mass area region. Once the cells are removed they are placed on a culture plate with nutrients and growth factors. The blastocyst is destroyed in the process. An embryonic cell line can then be recognized, when these cells begin to multiply and divide. Under the right conditions, these cell lines can be maintained indefinitely.

Treatments:

If scientists can ultimately learn how to direct stem cells to differentiate into one type of tissue or another, they can use them for two very important medical purposes.

First, pluripotent stem cells can be used to test new medications for safety and effectiveness. A medication could be tried out on a specific type of cell to gauge its response far more quickly than it could be tested in clinical trials. For example, scientists could use a cancer stem cell line to investigate whether a new anti-tumor drug stopped the cancer from growing.
Stem cells could also be used to repair cells or tissues that have been damaged by disease or injury. This type of treatment is known a

i only skim-read it…but i would give it a B and maybe an A

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Back Massage Technique, Tip 3:
Effleurage using reinforced Fingers

(Smaller area of contact, so deeper again – see diagram). Stand on the opposite side to the one that you are working on. I suggest you stand on the right side first. Push with the flats of your fingers (one hand on top of the other) away from the center line, then glide back toward the spine. Start at the lower back, and work up to the upper back (five minutes).

Back Massage Technique, Tip 4:
Stripping, using the Reinforced thumb

Glide with deep sustained pressure up the full length of the “sausage shaped” muscles either side of the spine (see diagram). Back off the pressure a little as you cover the neck. Move slowly and deliberately, feeling for knots or sensitive spots as you glide from lower to upper back. Three times each side; alternate with a couple of minutes of effleurage (techniques one to three above), and repeat the stripping.

Back Massage Technique, Tip 5:
Frictions, using the Reinforced Middle Finger:

Firm deep movements either side of each spinous process. Start to the side of the lower spine and move upward. Apply 5 frictions at each spot – more if over a sore spot.

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I’m trying to help my wife with her eating disorder, she is a great person and has a great personality, but for somehow, whenever I bring to the table the fact that she suffers from an eating disorder she gets extremelly defensive and sudendly shuts down. She is petite and she feels proud of that. On the days that I am off from work, we like to go to the gym and have a great time working out. Althrough we are happily married, we’re a childless couple as neither of us want children yet, someday, but not for right now. We been married for three wonderful years. I love when we watch movies in the privacy of our home not having kids around jumping and been the middle of everything. We can love each other with no urge of, if someone will wake up or call "ma’ma’."
In the mornings, on the days that I’m off from work, we’ve breakfast together or if I don’t police patrol the streets of NY, we go and have breakfast at IHOP with the tranquility of the world. My wife, also works, she love sher job as a secretary, but her schedule is more a Monday through Friday type of work, mine is different. Our lives is almost too perfect for many married couples, I guess, not having kids, makes the difference to a certain extend. It enables me to concentrate on my wife 100%, I love to make her happy, to see her smile, to suprise her with red roses, and not to mention that every aniversary is UNIQUE!

But, when I press a little bit on the subject of her eating disorder, she suddendly changes, she HATES to talk about that. One night, as I was brushing my teeth, she approached the bathroom and throw up, kind of letting me know that she didn’t care if I was there or not, she doesn’t even mind that I see her vomiting; That was the very first time, I saw her doing that, I could not believe my eyes.

After a year or so of insisting I finally convence her to take her to therapy and so we are attending therapy together and talking about her eating disorder, the therapist instructs me on how to deal with my wife when she has this urge to throw up. Her therapist, told me to try a technique that prohibits her from going to the bathroom to throw it all up, it’s a kindof a confrontation technique, I tried it for the first time the other night, and even if takes all the energy I got, I think it is going to work, let see what do you think?

The other evening, when we finish dinner, I could read it in her eyes that she was wanting to throw up. Right after dinner, she wanted to go and take a shower, I said: hmm… a shower, at this time? I told her that she could go and take a shower, but the door had to remained open, she got upset, stating that she could not take a shower with the door open, so I said, that if she could not take a shower with the door open, she were not allow to take a shower at all. As she approached the bathroom door, so did I and standed by the bathroom door with my arms crossed and the dialogue went something like this:

Me: (her name) I know what are you up to, you are not throwing up the only food I’ve seen you eating in a whole week, period.

She: (my name) let me get into the bathroom, as she was gently pushing me

Me: (her name) relax, you are NOT entering the bathroom, not to throw up!

She: MOVE! (elevating her voice and begining to get upset)

Note: the therapist advised me that I’ll make her upset and that will be okay, as long as she keep venting her anger, that is the whole idea, also as long as she does not hurt herself, we’ll be fine! She can scream, cry, this maybe what she needs in order to let it out and swap it for throwing up.

Me: (her name) I want you to relax, why don’t you try to slowly breethe and try to calm down, do you want me to help you? I am here for you!

She: NOOOO! Move, please (at this point she was in tears, because she was not getting her way)

Note: I kept standing by the bathroom door firm, with my arms crossed, keeping my coolness and continue on calming her down. I thought that crying could help her release some anger and that was okay as well.

Me: (her name) relax, lets talk about this, maybe what you need is to release your frustration and the anger you feel towards me in words.

She: I hate you!

Me: It’s okay, you can hate me all you want, but you are not going to throw up.

Note: At that point, I convenced her to lay down on the bed as I sat right beside her. At one point she started to force herself to get up and go to the bathroom to vomit, I GENTLE hold her arms down (as therapist instructed me if I could get her to lay down in bed or in a cautch) impiding her to get up. She begun to scream and shouting, I continue on been there holding her down, softly, and continue on talking in a soft and calm tone of voice, "common sweety, let it all out, cried it out if you need to, it seems to be bothering you inside." And continue on asking,

Me: What is bothering you inside?

Note: She continue on moving from side to side

Me: When you throw u

Although I understand the view point, I completely disagree with this method. Eating disorders are usually about control. When a woman like your wife feels like she has no control over the things in her life, she finds a way to control her weight. It is powerful to her. Yes, it is a sickness that needs to be stopped. However, even though you are genuinely trying to help her, she will subconsciously see you as controlling which is very counter productive.

If you want to help her I recommend that you do 2 things.

1st, help her find a hobby or a passion that she can be in control of. Idol hands are the Devils playground. Keep her busy.

2nd, Try backing off. let her let you in. Once she feels safe with you again ( remember, you may have some work to do, because stopping her before made her put up an emotional wall) , then focus on what you love about her, not what you want her to stop. At first she may smile and pass your compliment off. Be tough. Keep offering her your praise. You may feel like you are having to give her excessive compliments. Eventually, she will begin to see that you mean it. That you love her.

Love, trust, support, and understanding is what she needs from you!

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Sigmund Freud (IPA: [ˈziːkmʊnt ˈfʁɔʏt]), born Sigismund Schlomo Freud (6 May 1856 23 September 1939), was an Austrian psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology.[1] Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of repression and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis for curing psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. Freud is also renowned for his redefinition of sexual desire as the primary motivational energy of human life, as well as his therapeutic techniques, including the use of free association, his theory of transference in the therapeutic relationship, and the interpretation of dreams as sources of insight into unconscious desires. He was also an early neurological researcher into cerebral palsy. While of significant historical interest, many of Freud’s ideas have fallen out of favor or have been modified by Neo-Freudians, although in the past ten years, advances in the field of neurology have shown evidence for many of his theories. Freud’s methods and ideas remain important in clinical psychodynamic approaches. In academia his ideas continue to influence the humanities and some social sciences.

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its one of the techniques for therapeutic communication

it is simply writing or saying a given text or sentence or phrase or quote using other words other than that of the original

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Sigmund Freud (IPA: [ˈziːkmʊnt ˈfʁɔʏt]), born Sigismund Schlomo Freud (6 May 1856 23 September 1939), was an Austrian psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology.[1] Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of repression and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis for curing psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. Freud is also renowned for his redefinition of sexual desire as the primary motivational energy of human life, as well as his therapeutic techniques, including the use of free association, his theory of transference in the therapeutic relationship, and the interpretation of dreams as sources of insight into unconscious desires. He was also an early neurological researcher into cerebral palsy. While of significant historical interest, many of Freud’s ideas have fallen out of favor or have been modified by Neo-Freudians, although in the past ten years, advances in the field of neurology have shown evidence for many of his theories. Freud’s methods and ideas remain important in clinical psychodynamic approaches. In academia his ideas continue to influence the humanities and some social sciences.

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1. African Americans tend to be reluctant to seek therapy because
a. of cultural assumptions that individuals should solve their own problems.

b. of mistrust of the therapeutic process.

c. tension, anxiety and depression are stigmatized.

d. all of these

2. To treat an alcoholic, the behavior therapist prescribes a pill that the client is to take everyday. This medication will cause nausea and vomiting if the client ingests alcohol. This is a(n) ____ technique.
a. counter conditioning
b. extinction
c. aversive conditioning
d. flooding

3. The systematic interaction between a therapist and a client that applies psychological principles to affect the client’s thoughts, feelings or behavior is

a. medical therapy.
b. psychotherapy.
c. operant conditioning.
d. extinction.

4. Lea is experiencing therapy in which she is encouraged to discuss whatever is on her mind, regardless of what she might be thinking. This therapeutic technique is called

a. free association
b. defense mechanism
c. catharsis
d. resistance

1.a
2. c
3. psychotherapy
4. free association

you should stop being so lazy and do your own homework. i don’t take psychology, but it’s only a few google searches.

not sure of the top one, just an assumption really. But I think the rest are right.

William James was interested in how humans change habits to adapt to their environment. Which of the following theories is most closely tired to James’ research?

a. Wundt’s introspection theory (Wundt is the founder of modern psychology because he established a lab and used experimental methods to study consciousness)

b. Titchener’s structuralism theory (the theory that the structure of conscious experience could be understood by analyzing the basic elements of thoughts and sensations)

c. Freud’s unconscious theory (theory of personality and therapeutic technique that attributes our thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflict)

d. Darwin’s evolutionary theory

Since Darwin’s evolutionary theory was entirely founded on adaptation, and James was fairly existential in his beliefs, I would go with "D."

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Sigmund Freud (IPA: [ˈziːkmʊnt ˈfʁɔʏt]), born Sigismund Schlomo Freud (6 May 1856 23 September 1939), was an Austrian psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology.[1] Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of repression and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis for curing psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. Freud is also renowned for his redefinition of sexual desire as the primary motivational energy of human life, as well as his therapeutic techniques, including the use of free association, his theory of transference in the therapeutic relationship, and the interpretation of dreams as sources of insight into unconscious desires. He was also an early neurological researcher into cerebral palsy. While of significant historical interest, many of Freud’s ideas have fallen out of favor or have been modified by Neo-Freudians, although in the past ten years, advances in the field of neurology have shown evidence for many of his theories. Freud’s methods and ideas remain important in clinical psychodynamic approaches. In academia his ideas continue to influence the humanities and some social sciences.

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Worried about their less than exciting sex life, a young wife sent her husband to a therapist who wound up treating him with self hypnosis. And, to her joy, everything got much better.

However, she could not help but notice that each night, early into their lovemaking, the husband would dash out to the bathroom for several minutes. This tormented her until finally, one night, she followed him.

There, in front of the mirror, she found him applying this therapeutic technique: "She’s not my wife… She’s not my wife…She’s not my wife…"

sorry rose

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