ADHD can enhance irritation. People can be less patient, more irritable due to ADHD. This is important to note especially with someone who may not know they have ADHD but always find themselves frustrated. It may not be so much about irritability but ADHD.
Frustration from ADHD can leader to anger outbursts. Please also review AIHCP’s Anger and ADHD Consulting Programs
The article, “ADHD and Anger: What’s the Connection?” from Healthline looks closer at how anger can be enhanced through ADHD. The article states,
“Irritability and ADHD appear to go hand in hand. In one recent studyTrusted Source involving 696 children with ADHD, 91 percent had at least one symptom of irritability. In this study, researchers found that irritability was associated with both anxiety and depression symptoms.”
With such cases of irritation and moods from ADHD, anger can reduced with proper treatment of the ADHD.
Please also review AIHCP’s Anger Management Certification, as well as AIHCP’s ADHD Consulting Certification and see the programs meet any of your needs. The programs are both online and independent study and are open to qualified professionals seeking four year certifications in Anger Management or ADHD Consulting.
Hypnosis can help with many phobias and fears that cripple individuals from enjoying life. Some individuals have a deep fear of flying. Anxiety can cripple them from getting onto a plane and while flying they may need medicated. These issues can possibly be helped through hypnosis.
Hypnosis can look to the root problem of phobias. Please also review AIHCP’s Hypnotherapy Certification
The article, “Best of travel: Can hypnotherapy cure a chronic fear of flying?” by Dougie Gerrard looks into how hypnosis can help people deal with flying. He states,
“Ultimately, however, correctly understanding aviophobia isn’t especially important to me; the aim is to get rid of it, or at least to blunt it enough that I can always be confident of catching planes. There is a lot that I want to see in the world, and almost all of it requires flying. ”
Hypnosis can help the mind see things differently at the subconscious level and also help the mind discover the root of many issues. Through sessions, one can begin to understand the fear and eventually even possibly overcome the phobia.
Please also review AIHCP’s Hypnotherapy Certification and see if it meets your academic and professional needs. The program is online and independent study and open to qualified professionals seeking a four year certification in Hypnotherapy
With peer pressure and fast developing minds, kids and teens can make poor choices. Even the best raised teen with faith and family can give in to the temptation from time to time. How parents teach their children about drugs and addiction varies but it is nevertheless an important conversation.
It is important to teach teens about the dangers of addiction. Please also review AIHCP’s Substance Abuse Counseling Certification
The article, “How to talk about alcohol and drugs with kids of all ages” by Elissa Strauss looks at how parents can help their children be better prepared to deal with drugs and alcohol. The article states,
“The adolescent brain is in this process of developing and becoming, and it is not finished cooking until young people are in their early or mid-20s. Adolescents aren’t wired for addiction, but they are wired to take risks. Their baseline levels of dopamine (a type of neurotransmitter associated with pleasure) are lower than they are for children or for grown-ups. Drugs and alcohol became a route to novelty and risk — to feel something.”
Risk and dangerous choices can manifest into drugs, which later lead to addiction.
Please also review AIHCP’s Substance Abuse Counseling Certification and see if it meets your academic and professional goals. The program is online and independent study and open to qualified professionals seeking a four year certification in Substance Abuse Counseling.
Grief is a reaction to any loss. Sometimes this loss is focused on death but injuries and loss of capabilities or limbs are also a loss that many deal with daily. Losing a limb is tragic and is a loss that involves a long adaptation period. Numerous secondary losses stem from the initial trauma and pain.
Loss of a limb or other body part can take a long time to recover from. Please also review AIHCP’s Grief Counseling Certification
Phantom pains can haunt one well after the initial accident, as well as emotional distress. The inability to do walk, or hold things, or do things prior the accident haunt the individual. Hobbies, activities and other events become cold memories of a life once was. In addition to this, one’s own self image and self esteem can be affected. Feeling less than whole and new forms of transportation or clothing may be required. These changes can cause grief and in some cases depression.
It is difficult to cope with such a loss but not impossible over time. As the grief of the loss is adjusted, one can begin to find new meaning. This does not mean, one accepts the loss as a good thing, it just means the person has incorporated this unfortunate incident into one’s life narrative and now is looking to find new ways to exist with a disability. Not just learning to make life easier through therapy, strengthening and new technology, but also seeing what other opportunities exist.
The article, “Limb Loss and Grief: 5 Coping Strategies for New Amputees” by Richard Console Jr takes a closer look at the grief of limb loss and how some can learn to cope. He states,
“Why does grief often accompany an amputation? Feelings of grief can arise from any kind of meaningful loss – and the loss of a limb certainly counts. In the case of amputation, the absent body part itself isn’t the only loss you suffer. Amputation also leads to many other kinds of losses.”
Please also review AIHCP’s Grief Counseling Certification and see if it matches your academic and professional goals. The program is online and independent study and open to qualified professionals seeking a four certification as a grief counselor.
Overthinking minds naturally are more difficult to deal with when meditating. Minds like this cannot relax and they analyze even the function of meditation itself to the point no meditation can occur. These issues are difficult to overcome and make meditation a little more harder at first. It is important to learn how to silence the mind and find a way to reduce the overthinking when attempting to relax.
Learning to quiet the overthinking mind is key to meditation. Please also review AIHCP’s Meditation Instructor Program
The article, “9 Tips for Meditating When You’re an Overthinker” from HEALTHLINE reviews how one can quiet the mind and stop overthinking while trying to meditate. The article states,
“Although I’m a long-time meditator, I continually struggle to truly turn off my head. Enter my “monkey mind,” the intrusive, restless thoughts that derail me from finding mental calm. Even when I set aside time for stillness, a riptide of thoughts frequently washes me out to a sea of worries, concerns, and — wait, am I making chicken or fish for dinner tonight? Although the idea of quieting the mind and blissing out in meditation sounds wonderfully rejuvenating, actually achieving a meditative state can be an uphill battle for those of us with overactive thoughts.”
It is well worth learning how to quiet the mind and utilize the healing and soothing benefits of meditation. The peace gained is well worth it and the quiet from overthinking can replenish any person.
Please also review AIHCP’s Meditation Instructor Program and see if it meets your academic and professional goals. The program is online and independent study and open to qualified professionals seeking a four year certification as a Meditation Instructor.
Since Covid 19, the pandemic has forced telehealth into new unchartered waters but to continue the advancement in delivering high quality patient care, technology and healthcare must continue to work together well into the future. Accessing rural and other hard to reach patients is a imperative as well as being able to supply high quality care to patients who lack technological support.
Future technology will make telehealth more critical and everyday. Please also review AIHCP’s Healthcare Case Management Certification
The article, “How Healthcare Organizations Can Break Down Barriers to Care” by Zafar Chaudry looks closer at how technology and healthcare can closer align for better patient care. He states,
“These efforts impact every aspect of healthcare, especially the patient. Digital initiatives have made it possible for healthcare providers and patients to connect while maintaining social distancing, just as similar transformation efforts have enabled work from home for many industries and remote schooling for students. But there has been a downside to this trend. Many people don’t have the tools or the infrastructure in place to support remote connections.”
Strengthening these connections between technology and healthcare will be a key trend as the future of healthcare continues to serve patients in ways never thought before. Case Managers will no doubt also benefit from these abilities to better communicate with patients they could not monitor as close before due to logistics.
Good bedside manner can go much farther than just kindness and professionalism. In fact, the better the bedside manner, the less chance of confusion and hurt feelings. This pays huge dividends when something goes wrong and how the patient interprets it. It may pay for physicians and surgeons to spend that extra moment or say that extra kind word when dealing with patients.
Bedside manner does matter in how patients react when things end up not right. Please also review AIHCP’s Legal Nurse Consulting Program
The article, “Bad Bedside Manner or Medical Malpractice?” by Richard Console Jr takes a closer look at malpractice cases and the effect of good bedside manner in preventing them. He states,
“A good bedside manner is far more effective at reducing the risk of medical malpractice litigation than common practices of ordering excessive tests and procedures, sometimes called “defensive medicine,” The New York Times reported. The patients seeing doctors who faced the most malpractice lawsuits – not only the ones who actually filed those suits – felt that these doctors ignored them, rushed them or failed to explain things adequately. Frequently sued doctors are the subject of twice as many complaints as doctors without such a troubled history. Most often, complaints referenced the doctor’s poor communication”
Doctor bedside manner can prevent many unneeded conflicts when no actual malpractice even exists. It is when patients perceive a slight that a case has a chance to develop even if it ultimately goes nowhere. Yet is it worth the risk? Taking time to better explain and show some empathy is important to the total treatment of the patient.
Please also review AIHCP’S College of Legal Nurse Consulting. The program is online and independent study and offers a four year certification in Legal Nurse Consulting for qualified nurses.
Addiction is a serious issue in society. Addiction tears apart families and destroys relationships. Knowing that one is addicted is the first step to recovery.
It is usually very self apparent if one is addicted, but there are questions and measurements to evaluate if one is addicted. Substance Abuse Counselors can go through a series of questions to determine if someone is addicted.
There are many questions to determine an addiction problem. Please also review AIHCP’s Substance Abuse Counseling Certification Program
The article, “How Addiction Is Diagnosed” by Chrystine Wagner takes a closer look at addiction and what the dictates if one is addicted. She states,
“Since addiction is often a self-diagnosed condition, recognizing or deciding you may be struggling with an addiction is often one of the biggest challenges in recovery. Everyone who has an addiction comes to that recognition in different ways. Questions to ask yourself if you think you may have an addiction include…”
The most common elements are over indulgence and the inability to stop. Other factors to consider include loss of time for other things, broken relationships, loss wages and jobs, and excessive time and spending on the habit.
To learn more about addiction, please review AIHCP’s Substance Abuse Counseling Certification and see if it meets your academic and professional goals. The program is online and independent study and open to qualified professionals seeking a four year certification in Substance Abuse Counseling.
A restless mind can prevent focus as well as sleep. ADHD has the ability to disrupt a person’s train of thought and focus on one thing at a time. Anxiety and sleepless nights can be the result. Knowing how to calm the mind and cope with the symptoms of ADHD is critically important in finding peace.
Calming the restless mind can be a difficult thing with ADHD. Please also review AIHCP’s ADHD Consulting Certification
The article, “9 Calming Strategies for a Racing, Restless Mind” by Kate Moryoussef looks closer at how to calm the ADHD mind. She states,
Guard your headspace, and pay attention to where you’re focusing your mental energy; set clear boundaries for emotional wellbeing. When we’re not intentionally choosing the right thoughts, the negativity can quickly become our reality and we begin attracting relatable scenarios to match what we’re energetically absorbing. Try this EFT tapping video to help you overcome your anxious thinking and ruminating.
In addition, Meditation, EFT and Hypnosis can all be beneficial alternative practices to help calm the restless mind. AIHCP offers certifications in all these specialty fields.
Please also review AIHCP’s ADHD Consulting Certification and see if it matches your academic and professional goals. The program is online and independent study and open to qualified professionals seeking a four year certification in ADHD Consulting.
During grief, multiple emotions can emerge. Anger, sadness and even guilt. Guilt especially can be a harmful emotion during grief because it tortures one over the loss of a loved one. Thoughts torture an individual regarding potentially the final days. Did the person do enough, did she say something mean she regrets, or did he not give enough time while the person was alive? These thoughts can torment the soul.
Second guessing oneself in grief and finding guilt can eat at the soul. Please also review AIHCP’s Grief Counseling Certification
In addition, some individuals find guilt in things that were beyond their control. The guilt eats away and when they discuss it, they discover the guilt was unfounded. This is especially true with children and magical thinking. In many cases, children may feel responsible for the death of a loved one because they wished it or thought it. Hence guilt can be a true poison in the grieving process and the only way to weed it out is to discuss it and share it with others.
Another type of guilt in loss is survivor guilt. When experiencing a traumatic event, the survivor sometimes may feel guilty they survived or feel guilty they did not do enough to save others. In reality, there should be no guilt, but the guilt still haunts them.
The article, “Grief and Guilt: ‘I can’t believe I did that’ edition” from “Whats Your Grief” takes a closer look at guilt and grief. The article states,
“When it comes to grief and guilt, these ‘if-then’ thoughts often come up around the thing we did or didn’t do. We think if something had been different, the outcome would have been better. It is easy to imagine that the alternate reality would be the perfect outcome we wish for, instead of the reality we’re living. We look back and think things like:”
The article lists numerous what if scenarios of what if, but then looks at why we do certain things in different situations. Stress response of fight or flight and our various crisis responses provoke different responses. So in reality, we respond in a given situation and are programmed to do so. Yet, in grief, we still look back with guilt, why we did not go to the funeral, or why we did not fight longer with treatments for our loved one, or wish we would have done that one little thing to change an outcome.
We as temporal beings cannot know the final end or whether an alternate ending is any better. In fact, the same ending may have occurred regardless and we can merely torture ourselves over and over in the mind.
We need to accept the past, shed guilt and realize our mind reacts to stress and crisis differently and we cannot return to that moment. What we can hold tightly to is we do what we feel is best at that moment and that we cherish and love our loved one. Our loved ones do not wish us to torture ourselves after their death. They want us to grieve healthy and not find guilt in their death but eventual acceptance.
If of a religious mind, we know they are in a better place and will one day reunite with us. In the meantime, holding on to guilt and other toxic emotion is unhealthy whether religious or not. The memory of the person lives on in us and they would never wish for us to hold on to unfounded guilt.
Please also review AIHCP’s Grief Counseling Certification and see if it matches your academic and professional goals. The program is online and independent study and the training for qualified professionals leads to a four year certification in Grief Counseling.
