Focusing on a challenging activity may have mental health benefits, especially for clients experiencing anxiety, depression or trauma.
Tag: Mental Health
Thanks to the popularity of social media postings about mental health and the ease of searching for symptoms online, more people are being tempted to self-diagnose, but is that necessarily a troubling trend for counselors?
This three-step mental health plan can help us prepare emotionally as we enter another holiday season in a pandemic.
Counselors can be a source of support for clients whose mental health is affecting — or even derailing — their work life.
Allow discomfort to be part of your experience. Welcome it fully from the heart center. At the core of your pain or fear, you will grow and you will learn.
As you think about the realities and uncertainties of our world during the crisis we are all facing, be mindful of the different ways that you can change your emotions into positive actions, starting with being kind to others and being kind to yourself.
Managing your mental health while freeing yourself from tobacco is possible — and professional counselors are well-equipped to support you on the climb.
Research demonstrates that people can remedy stress if they laugh more (casual leisure), find a hobby (serious leisure) and engage in meaning-making activities such as volunteering in their communities or toward social causes (project-based leisure).
All explanations are given space to be heard in the Hearing Voices Network, including the medical model, psychological models such as voices being subpersonalities of the voice hearer, spiritual beliefs that the voices are spirits, and other possibilities.
The mental health needs of veterinarians and veterinary students are increasingly coming to light as more research is conducted on the stresses and strains under which these professionals operate.