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Many of the coaching clients are high achievers and in most of the prepandemic sessions presented as confident, in control and professional. Their reasons for coaching were often focused on their desire to move to the next level, which called for them to identify their strengths and perceived weaknesses and take action to address the identified gaps in their skills and knowledge through the coaching or through further training. This chapter offers a 'good enough' experience for clients and so, during the pandemic, moved reluctantly to working via online platforms or telephone sessions, depending on the client's preference. During the pandemic it is encouraged to build in the time to take walks before and after online sessions and, when it became possible to do so, to start taking that coffee time again rather than going straight from an online psychotherapy session to online business. The client with a pure obsessive compulsive disorder (POCD) diagnosis also saw benefits to their being-in-the-world from the pandemic. POCD often manifests as intrusive, inappropriate and shameful thoughts on which the person will ruminate. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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This chapter is about, what impact can the corona crisis have on our mental health? Besides the relational tensions that can arise from living on top of each other, many of us are also stuck in one negative story. The chapter is about the importance making room for stories that are not about corona. It discusses about work that consisting of broadening people's horizon by letting participants discover that they consist of multiple stories. This will have an enormous impact on the mental well-being of a large part of the population, which will have lots of consequences. That is why it is important to actively make room for other stories right now, in the middle of the pandemic. Memories from the past and dreams for the future. This is a responsibility one has to take towards one's own mental health (and resilience), just as we have to do for others. Sharing other stories and making sure people don't get stuck in that one difficult story is just as much part of caring about each other and will help us get through this crisis healthier. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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This chapter discusses the format of the International Program of Art Therapy in Thailand (IPATT) program before and during the COVID pandemic. A survey will contrast the strengths and weaknesses of online learning as experienced by IPATT students who participated in the program in-person as well as online. The IPATT studio is equipped with audio-visual aids for instructors to present art therapy theories and a studio working area with a wide assortment of art materials that allow students to work experientially. In addition to art therapy education, having students in the studio also gives them opportunities to learn relational literacy inside and outside class time, such as confronting or allying, deepening or skipping, and encouraging or letting go. The student survey that contrasted in-person and online classroom experiences revealed that face-to-face teaching gets a higher score in 3 out of 9 quality sub-categories;most aspects remain the same in both classroom settings. There are advantages and disadvantages to sharing art and personal experiences online, where group dynamics can be different, benefiting some group members but not others. While there is a preference for face-to-face education, the small student survey shows that most IPATT students accept online education as an alternative. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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This chapter explore the places where therapist and client need to attend the witchy wise woman's lessons, by coming inside, moving beyond words, making good use of time and being ready to work in the currency of a 'magical logos' that is beyond what is known or fully understood. It will look at how story offers a doorway, through which one see into the silenced and paralyzed places one enters when mortality interrupts life, and dis-locate into the unvisited, imaginative realm called 'The Deathlands'. The chapter will be in a story form that starts by giving a context for story and ritual being vital soul-wise portals which guide during any process of death. It introduces the metaphor of a country, The Deathlands made up of four shires, each with an entry point or doorway through which people pass when they lose someone or become terminally ill. It looks at the kind of story that is played out in these days of Coronavirus, happening during the writing of this chapter. A traditional story will follow each description of The Deathland shires, intended to amplify imaginary, created story, with time-tested, magical wisdom of an ancient myth from tradition of different world cultures. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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Aims: Children and adolescents were affected in various ways by the measures due to COVID-19 pandemic. The aims of this study were to investigate and compare the effects on mental health across age, to identify latent class trajectories of emotional and behavioural problems over 12-months and to examine the association of classes of trajectories with baseline demographic and clinical predictors. Method(s): Children (n = 1854) and adolescents (n = 1243) from the general population were assessed baseline, at 6-, 9-, and 12-month follow-up. They were eligible if they were residents in Austria, Germany, or Switzerland, were parents/caregivers of a child aged between 7 and 10 years or adolescents >=11 years, had sufficient German language skills and provided informed consent. Results and Conclusion(s): Significant age-effects were found regarding type and frequency of problems. While children had the largest increase in aggressive behaviours, adolescents reported the largest increase in emotional problems. Sociodemographic variables, exposure to and appraisal of COVID-19, psychotherapy before COVID-19 and parental mental health significantly predicted change in problemscores (F >= 3.69, p <= .001). Using growth mixture modelling, a oneclass solution was detected for the trajectory of aggressive behaviours and a two- and three-class solution for withdrawn/depression and anxiety/depression. A substantial proportion of children and adolescents experienced age-related mental health problems during the different stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. These results suggest that psychological problems of specific sub-groups should be monitored over the longer-term and interventions to improve communication, emotion regulation, and appraisal style should be offered to risk groups.
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About 10 % of all symptomatic COVID-19 patients suffer from long-lasting health complaints. Fatigue, cognitive and emotional disorders are the most frequent neuropsychiatric symptoms. Evidence-based therapies for these post-covid impairments are still lacking. Here, we examined the feasibility of a newly developed group-therapy program for patients with fatigue, emotional and cognitive disorders following COVID-19. 24 patients with ICD-10 diagnosis of F06.8 and U0.09 participated in the group therapy on average 13 month after their acute COVID-19 infection. Before and after the group therapy they underwent a comprehensive clinical and neuropsychological assessment. The group therapy was held online and consisted of 8 weekly sessions with psychotherapeutic and psychoeducational elements regarding fatigue and pacing, mindfulness, psychiatric disorders, cognition as well as physical activity after COVID-19. Participation in the group was high with an average of 7.25 of 8 visited sessions. Mean overall group satisfaction was 7.78 out of 10 points. Patients improved in their self-reported fatigue, daily living skills, depression and subjective cognitive abilities as well as in their objective performance in neuropsychological tests of attention during the study time. The newly developed group therapy program for patients with fatigue and emotional and cognitive disorders following an infection with SARS-CoV-2 was well accepted and evaluated and is feasible in an online setting. Copyright © 2023. Thieme. All rights reserved.
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Nitsun was surprised that these pictures evoked extreme reactions. Perhaps less well known is that throughout his career as a psychologist Nitsun has also been a painter, exhibiting and selling his work to an enthusiastic audience. Morris Nitsun is well known as a consultant psychologist, psychotherapist and group analyst;his publications include the seminal work I The Anti-Group i , published in 1996, I The Group as an Object of Desire i (2006) and I Beyond the Anti-Group i (2015). This "artist's matrix" gave Nitsun the impetus to create more pictures in anticipation of the next group exploration. [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Journal of Analytical Psychology is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)
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Teaching and learning took on new meaning at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically for those programs not designed for online course delivery. While some accredited graduate art therapy programs already offered online learning and low residency options when the COVID pandemic hit, most were designed for in-person experiential learning with an art studio space. The author, an instructor at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, U.S., was preparing to teach a content course that relied on art-based experientials, one of the "signature" pedagogies in art therapy education. She had to rebuild the course with careful attention to various modes of communication to hold a safe learning space. This chapter outlines and exposes pedagogical, technological, and personal rationale behind her choices. It provides new knowledge or aspects to consider when making changes to course delivery post-pandemic. Overall, the chapter aims to inspire the readers to reconsider the philosophies of teaching and how one can creatively and effectively meet the students where they are in their cycle of learning, whether one teaches online, face-to-face, or a hybrid of the two. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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This chapter describe a Storytelling and Narrative Medicine pilot study which focused on communication in therapeutic settings. The research was carried out by a group of Italian Health Care professionals (HCP) from Calambrone Institute for Rehabilitation (IRC), at the IRCCS Stella Maris Foundation, along with a group of parents of patients with disabilities. However, because of the Covid-19 outbreak in Italy, many of the participants found themselves in lockdown in their own homes with their children. To evaluate the efficacy of storytelling as a tool for emotional and communication support, the authors submitted to both the HCP and parents two original online surveys to get information on their current emotional state. The assessed areas were personal stress, the relationship with children and family members, and the relationship with colleagues and professionals. The chapter focuses on emotional and psychological consequences that lack of social and therapeutic interactions might have produced. This short but effective educational intervention gives skills and knowledge to structure one's feelings and thoughts in a narrative form, equipping the participants with the resources to perceive themselves and their life experiences as the elements of the story. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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A Psychotherapist Paints is a unique account of an internationally known psychotherapist and group analyst's struggle to bring together his psychological experience and his interests and talent as an artist. This book describes a body of painting that was responsive to a major existential challenge, the COVID-19 pandemic, but which also comes from deeply personal experience;the paintings are a mirror of life through the decades. These paintings, fifty of which are included here in full color, were mainly presented online to groups both small and large, who were invited to participate in a dialogue that became a vital part of the developing project. The value of this dialogue is reflected in the author's concept of the "artist's matrix", describing the social context in which an artist produces and presents their work. The paintings, together with the autobiographical narrative and the groups' generativity, combine to produce a moving testament to our times. Intrinsic to A Psychotherapist Paints is a question about what makes us creative and how creativity transforms our lives. The result is a work of both artistic and psychological power that will inspire psychotherapists, art psychotherapists and artists themselves, and will point to exciting new possibilities in all these fields. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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This chapter describes about the experiences of the pandemic and lockdown. The memories of these experiences in the present moment, are a recollection of these experiences. These recollections represent with more or less accuracy how they related to these events and experiences. All is about relatedness. The fundamental principle of relatedness is at the heart of what people try to 'attend to' as existential therapists and supervisors. Recently, there have been some challenges to this emphasis on relatedness, with the suggestion that this has become dogmatic and somehow covers over the experience of difference, individuality and aloneness. The very existence of the virus and its manner of spread arises from the relatedness to others and the relatedness to nature and the world. However, the pandemic, and the imposition of repeated 'lockdowns' and 'social distancing', if anything seems to highlight the existential dilemmas of relation-separation, connection-withdrawal in a highly stark, anxiety-provoking fashion. The pandemic and lockdowns have also affected couple relationships in myriad ways. Other couples have entered therapy due to the direct impact of the pandemic. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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What makes SFBT remarkably fast and effective is its shift from the traditional medical model approach, which emphasises recognising and treating the deeper root cause, which in turn is time consuming. Instead of digging in past traumas and finding patterns, the therapist helps the client build the image of a preferred future. Moreover, this small change in perspective often encourages the client to recognise his hidden resources blurred by the magnitude of the problem. digging into problems creates more problems, and substituting them with a solution-focused conversation will help both the client and the therapist land at desired outcomes fast. Although the emphasis is on the future rather than the past, it is not strictly restricted to future talk. The conversations regarding the past are focused on the previous successes or, in other words, the exceptions in the conflict the client is going through. SFBT often adopts questions as interventions. They apply questions and questioning in different ways following a cognitive change. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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This chapter discusses social disability and impairment in childhood anxiety. The chapter starts with a discussion of clinical characteristics of the condition. Approaches to evidence-based assessment and cognitive-behavioral treatment are discussed. Future directions are highlighted. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2011, 2023. All rights reserved.
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This unique book explores stories from educational, community, social, health, therapeutic and therapy perspectives, acknowledging a range of diverse social and cultural views in which stories are used and written by esteemed storytellers, artists, therapists and academics from around the globe. Storytelling is a major activity of human communication;it is an age-old tradition, used in many ways by different societies at different moments. Storytelling and stories can be entertaining, therapeutic and educative. The book is like the old saying a 'stitch in time'-stories are a way of dealing with difficulties before they become real problems. The book perfectly fits the context of arts, arts in health and creative arts therapies in that, through the cross-section of chapters, it touches on every single function of storytelling. The book is fascinating in the way it harnesses our day-to-day realities as seen from the storytelling perspective. It is divided into five parts, each created around a particular theme, with chapters from renowned world-class scholars on aspects of stories and storytelling. The first part is dedicated to COVID-19 stories. Part II delves into stories and therapeutic texts. Part III paints a picture of how stories can be used in educational, community and social settings for general therapeutic purposes. This somehow connects with Part IV, which examines stories and therapeutic texts in a health and therapy context. The book provides a deeper understanding of the different contexts and settings in which stories are, can and should be used. Finally, it finishes with a moving story about memory loss. It is evident in this book that stories provide consolation and encouragement to continue search for answers to our human condition. The stories and therapeutic stories and ideas around them presented in this international handbook tell the underlying truth of human existence. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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This chapter shares the author's personal experiences during the early part of the lockdown in the UK in the spring of 2020, with all the uncertainties it created, and considers it from a dramatic storied perspective. It presents the author's perspective of creating a story out of COVID-19. Over the coming weeks in the spring of 2020, as the virus spread in lightning dramatic form, was a series of intertwined stories neither the author nor anyone else had fully processed. They were being encouraged to work from home. As we moved into March the government suggested that we should not have mass meetings, not go to pubs, sporting events or concerts. The notion of working from home and social distancing were being considered. We were all inadvertently being drawn into a classic dramatic story of life and death, without having the distance or space to respond fully to the emotions created. From a dramatherapy perspective, one could argue this is Jung's 'Collective Unconscious' at its most literal and dramatic-an unseen virus spreading throughout the very DNA of all humankind, that was completely unknown to us till a few months earlier, had no antidote and could be deadly. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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This timely volume considers the benefits of bringing an existential approach to psychotherapy, coaching, supervision and leadership, particularly in times of crisis. The book uses an existential lens to examine the impact Covid-19 has had on our mental health and ways of being, making connections between situations that challenge our mental resources and the unique ways existential ideas can address those challenges. Featuring contributions from renowned existential thinkers and practitioners, the book connects personal experiences with clinical examples and philosophic ideas to explore concepts like anxiety, relatedness and uncertainty as they relate to key existential themes, helping to inform coaches and therapists in their work with clients. In Part one, individuals offer their self-reflection on their 'lived experience' during the pandemic, all using an existential-phenomenological framework as a baseline for their reflections and referring to some of the main existential themes such as, Anxiety, Authenticity, Emotions, Freedom and Responsibility, Meaning, Relatedness, Time and Temporality, Uncertainty, Values and Beliefs. The authors seeks to draw and share learning and meaning from their own personal journey during the pandemic. Part two changes the focus from reflecting on our own experiences, to looking at those of our clients. It draws from work in the fields of coaching and psychotherapy, sharing some reoccurring existential themes and considering the overall existential relevance of these approaches. It includes consideration of the required changes to therapeutic boundaries, including moving sessions online. The final part of the book focus outside of the therapeutic setting itself to the community and business world. It considers the relevance of existential coaching, and existentially informed organizational and leadership training, while seeking to identify some of the future challenges to business models post-Covid-19. It is important reading for coaches, therapists, psychologists and business leaders, as well for scholars and researchers interested in applied philosophy. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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In China and around the world, the global spread of COVID-19 has made wearing a facemask more than a pragmatic or aesthetic individual-level issue: it has instilled in people deontic value. In Chinese anti-epidemic narratives, the semiotic ideology of wearing a facemask has been closely related to collectivism, patriotism and, to a certain degree, nationalism. The facemask not only serves as a protective biomedical device but also as a cultural, political and spatial sign of the line of defence against disorders of the natural system, to establish the order of the social system. This paper argues from the perspective of semiotics and life politics that such mask narratives have effectively helped China prevent the large-scale spread of the epidemic across the nation and have served as a means of collective psychotherapy, paradoxically transforming individual separation into collective spiritual cohesion. Previous semiotic studies of disaster have not paid much attention to plagues or disaster governance discourse, between which biomedicine plays an important role. Thus, this paper aims to shed light on how biomedicine works with politics in coding and decoding the relationship between the natural system of the plague and the social system of governance.
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Background: The medical staff working on the front-line battle against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are more exposed to mental health risks than the general population. Resilience is the ability to withstand challenging situations and help people defend their mental health against stressors. The present study aimed to compare the effectiveness of Yalom and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on medical staff resilience in COVID-19 centers. Methods: The research method was quasi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design and a control group. The statistical population includes all 600 medical staff of Hamedan City, Iran, caring for patients with COVID-19 in 2021. Based on the average variance of resilience obtained in previous studies, 45 people were selected by convenience sampling and randomly assigned to two experimental groups (each 15) and one control group (n=15). The experimental groups were divided into Yalom and ACT group psychotherapy, and all three groups responded to the Connor-Davidson resilience scale (CD-RISC) before and after the intervention. The obtained data were analyzed by analysis of covariance in SPSS software, version 25. Results: Yalom group psychotherapy and ACT group therapy had different effects on the participants' resilience and are statistically significant since the F statistics (106.722) was significant (P=0.001 and P=0.05, respectively). Based on the results, Yalom group psychotherapy has a better rate of improvement than ACT. Conclusion: Considering the significant efficacy of Yalom group psychotherapy and its relative ease of implementation compared to ACT, it is possible to employ this intervention to protect the mental health of medical staff during severe epidemics of diseases such as coronavirus. © 2023, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences. All rights reserved.
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Proven effective and widely practiced during the COVID-19 pandemic, online psychotherapy is today a fundamental tool in the toolbox of the psychoanalyst and the psychotherapist: to be studied in depth in its possible indications and counter-indications and to be included in the training programs of our training schools. Our thesis is that it does not represent a risk, but rather the stimulus to progress for our discipline. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (French) La psychotherapie en ligne s'est averee efficace et largement pratiquee pendant la pandemie de COVID-19 est aujourd'hui un outil fondamental dans la boite a outils du psychanalyste et du psychotherapeute: a etudier en profondeur dans ses eventuelles indications et contre-indications et a integrer dans les programmes de formation des nos ecoles de formation. Notre these est qu'elle ne represente pas un risque, mais plutot une incitation a progresser pour notre discipline. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (German) Die Online-Psychotherapie, die sich wahrend der COVID-19-Pandemie als wirksam erwiesen hat und weithin praktiziert wurde, ist heute ein grundlegendes Instrument im Werkzeugkasten des Psychoanalytikers und des Psychotherapeuten: eines, das vertieft in seinen moglichen Indikationen und Kontraindikationen untersucht und in die Ausbildungsprogramme unserer Ausbildungsstatten integriert werden muss. Unsere These ist, dass sie kein Risiko, sondern vielmehr Ansporn zum Fortschritt fur unsere Disziplin darstellt. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Italian) Dimostratasi efficace e largamente praticata durante la pandemia da COVID-19 la psicoterapia online e oggi uno strumento fondamentale nella cassetta degli attrezzi dello psicoanalista e dello psicoterapeuta: da studiare in modo approfondito nelle sue possibili indicazioni e contro-indicazioni e da inserire nei programmi di formazione delle nostre scuole di formazione. La nostra tesi e che non rappresenti un rischio, ma anzi lo stimolo al progresso per la nostra disciplina. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Spanish) La psicoterapia online demostro ser efectiva y ampliamente practicada durante la pandemia de COVID-19 y es hoy una herramienta fundamental en la caja de herramientas del psicoanalista y psicoterapeuta que merece ser profundizada en sus posibles indicaciones y contraindicaciones e incluida en los programas de formacion de nuestras escuelas de formacion. Nuestra tesis es que no representa un riesgo, sino un estimulo de progreso para nuestra disciplina. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown of the spring 2020 led psychotherapists and psychoanalysts working with children and adolescents to experiment, whether they liked it or not, with new ways of meeting, by telephone or video-conferencing, and new practices were generated. In this context, new questions about the treatment format lead to a discussion of the precise place and function of telephone sessions with the adolescent as compared to the child. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (French) La pandemie de Covid-19 et le confinement du printemps 2020 ont conduit les psychotherapeutes et psychanalystes d'enfants et d'adolescents a l'experimentation, a marche forcee, de nouveaux modes de rencontres, par telephone ou visio, generateurs de pratiques inedites. Dans ce contexte de nouvelles interrogations concernant ce dispositif conduisent a preciser la place et la fonction des seances au telephone chez l'adolescent comparativement a l'enfant. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)