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By: Erin Brumleve, MA, LPC, ATR
Learning new skills and rapid change can be intimidating. Even psychologically "normal," healthy adolescents, defined for the purpose of this article as adolescents who are not involved in mental health services and do not have an active Diagnostic and Statistical Manual diagnosis, experience a decline in their self-concept between the ages of 12-14 (Hadley, Harris, & Moore, 2008).
The initial inspiration for the Expressive Mask Making for Teens group came from my work with adolescents as an art therapist in an outpatient community mental health setting near Denver, Colorado. ...
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By: Raizel W. Heitzer, NCC, LPC
You can’t go anywhere these days without seeing the word: holistic medicine, holistic nutrition, holistic lawn care, holistic hair salon, holistic dog food! Holistic is often erroneously used as a synonym for natural or new age. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary (2010) has a 1926 definition of holistic as: ...
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By: Debra Cooper
Women and girls struggling with anorexia and bulimia often exhibit telltale signs of these disorders. Anorexia is sometimes easy to recognize because the impact of the disorder is so visible. Due to severe weight loss, those with anorexia may look ill. Yet some with anorexia conceal their extreme thinness under layers of clothing and therefore remain less noticeable to other people. Bulimia is even more difficult to detect, unless you are aware of the warning signs, such as scrapes or bruising on the fingers or swollen glands in the neck. It is therefore worth knowing about a more subtle sign of both eating disorders—body and weight checking. ...
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By: Megan L. Van Meter, MA, LPC-AT, ATR-BC
Art therapists who are interested in working in the public schools might find it helpful to understand the special education system and how art therapy services can be utilized in a special education setting. A good place to start with is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, a 1990 federal law (reauthorized in 1997 and again in 2004) that ensures a free and appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment to all youth regardless of ability. This act allows for the provision of special education services to address deficits or challenges that s...
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By: Dr. Deborah Hecker
Back-to-school issues co-parents should discuss and agree on parameters for include:
-Enrollment in school-related and extracurricular activities, including payment of fees and transportation. A schedule which allows some degree of flexibility in case of work problems or other minor emergencies is helpful, as is participation in carpools with other parents. Agree on how to give notice of changes to the schedule as well as acceptable alternatives (for example, paying for an extra hour of after-school care instead of asking for the co-parent to leave work ear...
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