The Important Role of Diet and Exercise for Mental Health

Mental health is a complex interdependency of various components that relate to the person’s biology, psychology, and social relations. Hollywood and other traditional approaches to curing mental disorders focus on counseling and prescription of either drugs or medication, new discovery under the new mental health care dispensation focuses ...

Sep 4

Categories: Mental Health Professions

Written By:
Pawan Singh

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Diagnosis of Autism in Girls and Women

What are the classic signs of Autism?Autism, or as its officially called, Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) isWhat are the issues when diagnosing ASD in males versus females?When Autism assessments are conduct, ASD is diagnosed at a rate more than four times the rate for females. The disorder is thus more common in males. However, this likely is ...

May 29

Categories: Adult psychological development, Anxiety, Asperger's Syndrome, Autism ...

Written By:
Andrew Adler, Ph.D.

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Anthony Hopkins and the suffering caused by unrecognized ...

The history of the term Asperger's Syndrome is rather complicated. The condition now popularly recognized as autism was first proposed by Leo Kanner in 1943. A year later, an Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger described a somewhat similar condition which came to be called Asperger’s ...

Jul 30

Categories: Asperger's Syndrome

Written By:
Brian Scott

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Introduction to Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT)

Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) is a goal directed intervention whereby a trained animal is incorporated into the therapeutic process, promoting the improvement of human’s physical, social, emotional and/or cognitive functioning. 1AAT is a therapeutic tool that can be utilized in the ...

Mar 16

Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Anger Management, Anxiety, ...

Written By:
Maureen Huang, MSW, AASW

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How to improve your Knowledge and Understanding of your Self

“Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion” Although these lines were written by Robert Burns, Scotland's most famous and honored poet, over two hundred years ago, they continue to have ...

Aug 18

Categories: Asperger's Syndrome, Self-Care / Self Compassion

Written By:
Brian Scott

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An Introduction To Art Therapy: A Brief Guide to Art Therapy as an ...

An Introduction to Art Therapy: A Brief Guide to Art Therapy by Andrew Wright, Art Psychotherapist, based in Dubai, UAE.) Art Therapy is a well-developed profession in the US and the UK and is an approach that is used to help people of all ages.Art Therapy is the use of the creative arts ...

Feb 20

Categories: Abortion, Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Addictions, Adjusting to ...

Written By:
Andrew C Wright HCPC registered (UK)

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