Although the Pan American Health Organization declared in 1995 that polio had been eliminated in the Western Hemisphere, life-altering effects of the disease continue for many survivors. It is known as Post-Polio Syndrome (PPS). The sheer number of individuals experiencing the symptoms has attracted the attention of the medical community. These physical symptoms are severe enough to change the quality of life and require lifestyle changes for people with PPS to cope with the disease. The psychological implications for individuals who must face the reemergence of a disease they thought they had defeated 30 to 40 years ago are staggering. Thus, there is a crucial need for health care professionals, especially mental health nurses and psychotherapists, to address mental health issues that individuals with PPS experience.
The authors describe the REACH Beyond Tolerance program, a schoolwide model for teaching children tolerance, and they argue that most current school curricula do not prepare students to operate effectively within an ethnically and culturally diverse world (J. A. Banks, 1997; D. Gollnick & P. Chinn, 1998).
Internet addiction (IA) is both the most rapidly growing addiction and the least understood addiction (Watson, 2005). For counselors, treatment issues surrounding the disease are also growing. At the forefront is the lack of understanding concerning treatment protocol to manage the challenging recovery and maintenance stages after IA behavior has been controlled. The authors discuss Viktor Frankl's logotherapy as an effective approach to treating IA.
Within the clinical work of professionals in the field of addictions, co-existing vulnerability factors are rampant. One impactful vulnerability which is seldom recognized by professionals but significantly effects an individual with addictions and his/her perception of the self and others is hypengyophobia. This is a fear of responsibility. Yet, taking responsibility in addiction is a major theme for healing. A life of passivity will not lead to recovery, and this is exactly the effect of hypengyophobia. Grounded in Jung’s (1933) psychodynamic theory, with a case study example included, understanding, recognition and an innovative treatment for this rarely explored vulnerability is forwarded to clinical professionals in addictions. Hypengyophobia is forwarded as an integral part of addictions’ treatment.
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