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A mishmash of topics related to Counseling in general. 

This page does in no way represent or attempt to mimick the official Counseling Today online page that can be found at                                               http://www.counseling.org/Publications/CounselingToday.aspx

Updating Your Life Plan

 New Community Services (Counseling & Training) organizes another Workshop. On March 6 & 13, 2010.

Are you still operating on a life plan you made (directly or indirectly) as a teenager? Have you become what you dreamed of? Does this old life plan fit your life now? It is time to update your life plan and write a new one.

Session 1 looks at your life plan and introduces new skills to evaluate where you are right now and how to write a new plan.

Session 2 goes deeper and looks at the hidden motivations behind your goals, wishes and desires.

HOW TO APPLY --  Apply to join a Course by e-mailing the Workshop Facilitator anette.p@ncs-counseling.com  with your name and the workshop + date you would like to join. She will then contact you by e-mail again. For more information you can also call the NCS office at Office Hours, 02-2798503

COUNSELING IS ...................

 See what Counseling is and what it's not!                                                      www.paho.org/English/HCP/HCA/Counseling.ppt
Acute psychosis is a condition that is usually differentiated from chronic psychosis. Chronic psychosis tends to refer to a long-lasting condition, where people may sometimes act normally, but at other times may suffer from periods of rage, hallucination, delusions and the like. People who have schizophrenia may have periods such as this, despite medication, and their condition is therefore chronic.
Exercise and behavioral intervention improves fitness and lowers systolic blood pressure, according to a study presented today at the 56th American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Annual Meeting in Seattle. 
 
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/

 
A very high proportion of those who have the most serious conduct problems during childhood will go on to become involved in criminal activity.

Download a paper that makes the case for greatly increased investment in evidence-based programmes to reduce the prevalence and severity of conduct problems in childhood.

www.scmh.org.uk/ 

 
Henri Nouwen wrote ".....community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.
Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.
The question, therefore, is not "How can we make community?" but "How can we develop and nurture giving hearts?"
Definition of Marriage Counseling

 Marriage counseling, also called couples therapy, is a type of psychotherapy. Marriage counseling helps couples — married or not — recognize and resolve conflicts and improve their relationships. Through marriage counseling, you can make thoughtful decisions about rebuilding your relationship or, in some cases, going your separate ways.

Marriage counseling is usually provided by clinical social workers or licensed therapists known as marriage and family therapists.

Marriage counseling is often short term. Marriage counseling typically includes both partners, but sometimes one partner chooses to work with a therapist alone. The specific treatment plan depends on the situation.

 

         Domestic Violence in Thailand. The figures for 2009 reveal that incidents of physical or mental violence effects 34.54% of women and 51.13% of children.  Following this the cases of sexual abuse, around 14.33%, although the figure is underestimated because in many cases the incidents are not reported.  

Recent statistics on a sample of about 1,500 people shows that the cause of the violence depends 38.82% on the "decline of society" and 21.28% on "economic problems". The Department of Welfare adds that in 2004 only 91 women reported cases of rape in the home, 89 in 2005. Actual figures, according to the Ministry, are much higher, but many victims “are afraid and fear social exclusion ". Source: http://www.speroforum.com

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         "A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn."                                                                                    Author unknown

 

 

 

 

Cyclothymia, also called cyclothymic disorder, is a mild form of bipolar disorder. Like bipolar disorder, cyclothymia is a chronic mood disorder that causes emotional ups and downs.

With cyclothymia, you have short periods of emotional highs when you feel on top of the world, followed by lows that may leave you feeling hopeless and suicidal. And in between these cyclothymic highs and lows, you may have times when your mood is stable and you feel fine. Read more at :http://www.mayoclinic.com/print/cyclothymia/DS00729/DSECTION=all&METHOD=print

 

Marriage really is good for you, with a major international study finding it reduces the risks of depression and anxiety, but these disorders are more likely to plague people once the relationship is over.                             Read more:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091215/lf_nm_life/us_marriage
 

 

“.....every time there are losses there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper”                                               Henri Nouwen

 

  
  12 Most Annoying Habits of Therapists, READ IT at http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2009/03/08/12-most-annoying-bad-habits-of-therapists/
 "Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were."

                                                        Cherie Carter Scott