Meditation Instructor Program Article on PTSD and Transcendental Meditation

Posted on by Dominick Flarey

PTSD is a severe reaction to trauma.  It haunts millions, especially veterans who have witnessed war at its worst.  Transcendental Meditation may be able to help individuals relax and process the trauma in more productive ways.  It has the possibility to heal the mind and soul through the process.

PTSD is a serious condition due to severe past trauma. Please also review AIHCP’s Meditation Instructor Program

 

The article, “Could transcendental meditation treat PTSD?” from MedicalNewsToday takes a closer look at how Transcendental Meditation can help veterans with PTSD. The article states,

“A common plot device in fiction finds a character overcoming past traumatic experiences by finally confronting their pain. In real life, recovery is not so simple. While therapies for people with PTSD typically focus on facing one’s trauma, a new study finds that the restful effects of TM may more readily help people with PTSD heal.”

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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

 

ADHD Consultant Certification Article on ADHD and High IQ

Posted on by Dominick Flarey

ADHD does not discriminate.  Individuals with very high IQs are also victims of ADHD.  When these things collide, individuals need to learn how to cope with ADHD display the disorder in different ways.  Sometimes, due to the higher intelligence, children with higher IQs and ADHD may go undiagnosed but there are signs to look for.

Some children may be hard to diagnose with ADHD due to higher IQ. Please also review AIHCP’s ADHD Consulting Certification

 

The article, “When High IQ and ADHD Collide” by Mary Beth Richie looks closer at ADHD and how it manifests with children of higher IQ.  She states,

“Misdiagnosis is not uncommon when high IQ and ADHD collide. Very bright children who are also highly active are sometimes misdiagnosed with ADHD. On the other hand, some highly intelligent children with ADHD can focus on things that interest them for an extended period of time, which can lead to misdiagnosis as well. The result is that these children often don’t receive the treatment they need.”

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Please also review AIHCP’s ADHD Consulting 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 certification as an ADHD Consultant.

 

How Poor Eating Habits Are Affecting Health Employees

Posted on by Joseph Gerard

Potato free and ketchup food on the wooden table. Georgian cuisine.

By Lucy Peters

It may be one of the great ironies in our modern workforce that the diet of health employees is not as healthy as it should be. Given the demands of many health professionals, especially nurses and other frontliners, having the time to prepare meals, go out to a healthy lunch, or even stop to have a healthy snack can be challenging. Fortunately, a variety of initiatives are being implemented to make sure that healthcare workers stay healthy.

The root of the problem

Being a healthcare worker can be exceptionally demanding, and it can limit one’s ability to enjoy a healthy diet. Although many professionals, such as nurses, work as few as three days a week, the demands of the day can be incredibly taxing and prevent access to or time for a balanced diet: limited time for an actual lunch break, little time to leave the healthcare facility, and shifts that extend into overtime contribute to the problem. When you factor in swing shifts, increased demands because of health emergencies and the demands of taking care of a family, healthcare professions can be incredibly draining and compel employees to seek energy boosts in the form of caffeine, sugar and fast food. Making matters worse is the fact that many cafeterias and hospital dining facilities offer minimal healthy food options, or offer an abundance of fast food. For employees who are pressed for time and who prefer convenience, and therefore choose to eat in the hospital canteen, it’s no surprise that many healthcare workers succumb to poor eating habits.

Strategies to address the issue

Fortunately, a variety of strategies are being implemented to improve the dining options for healthcare workers. One approach involves educating and informing cafeteria patrons about the health benefits and risks of various food options with a color-coded information system. This system can also incorporate text messaging to update patrons on their cafeteria spending habits. Another option being sought is to improve the options being offered in the cafeteria, whether by limiting fast food options or making healthier options more presentable and appealing.

Given the rise of meal delivery services, there are a variety of companies offering healthy meal plans for delivery. These delivery providers, including Blue Apron, Home Chef and Green Chef, provide meal options that can accommodate a variety of dietary preferences, including keto, vegan and organic meals, while providing the same convenience as in-hospital dining. A rising number, including Green Chef, Purple Carrot and Sunbasket, are also working to make the meal delivery industry more sustainable. In many ways, enjoying healthy eating as a healthcare worker is much easier than before.

Health care workers aren’t always the beacons of health that we would assume based on their profession, but that doesn’t need to be the case. With a variety of changes in hospital dining options, improved presentation, and accessibility, healthcare workers will hopefully have much greater access to enjoying quality, nutritious and delicious meals during their hectic schedule. Likewise, with the prominence of various healthy meal plans for delivery, healthcare workers can expand their options and enjoy the convenience of a customized meal plan for delivery. These are just some of the measures available to ensure that healthcare workers stay healthy. If there’s anything we now appreciate, it’s that staying healthy, and keeping healthcare workers healthy, is critically important.

 

 

 

Please also review AIHCP’s Holistic-Integrative Health Care Specialist Certification Program and see if it matches your academic and professional goals.  The program in online and independent study and open to qualified professionals.

Stress Management Consulting Program Article on Stress and Weight Gain

Posted on by Dominick Flarey

Stress causes multiple problems to the body due to the stress response.  In such a tense state, it can also affect over time one’s waist line and add to gaining weight.  Weight gain is directly correlated with chronic stress.

Stress can negatively affect one’s weight. Please also review AIHCP’s Stress Management Consulting Program and see if it meets your professional goals

 

The article, “Surprising Side Effects Stress Has On Your Waistline, Say Experts” by Perri Blumberg looks closer at how stress can affect weight gain.   She states,

“As Ivanir further elaborates, stress can lead to weight gain via a hormone called cortisol. “When under stress, the adrenal glands produce cortisol, which leads to a surge of energy by stimulating fat, carbohydrate, and protein metabolism,” she explains. “However, cortisol also increases appetite and cravings for sweet, fatty, and salty foods. With chronic stress, this overexposure to cortisol can lead to weight gain,” she adds, further noting that cortisol secretion also promotes abdominal fat accumulation.”

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Reducing stress is imperative to overall health and as one can see, stress affects almost every aspect of our life.  It is important to manage it in order to live a healthy and productive life.

Please also review AIHCP’s Stress Management Consulting Program 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 Stress Management Consulting.

Healthcare Life Coach Program Article on High Intensity Workouts

Posted on by Dominick Flarey

Exercise is always portrayed in a healthy light but some types of exercises in extremity or frequency can be bad for certain individuals.  Knowing what exercise is best for an individual is key to a healthy workout that is keyed into an individual’s needs.  Healthcare life coaches can help individuals find the best exercise routine needed.

What is the best intensity workout for you? Please also review AIHCP’s Healthcare Life Coaching Program

 

The article, “Too Much High-Intensity Exercise May Be Bad for Your Health” by Gretchen Reynolds looks at how for some, high intensity exercise can be counter productive.  She states,

“If high-intensity exercise is good for us, is more necessarily better? Maybe not, according to an admonitory new study of the molecular effects of high-intensity interval training, also known as HIIT. In the study, people who began working out strenuously almost every day developed sudden and severe declines in the function of their mitochondria, which are the energy powerhouses inside of cells, along with incipient signs of blood sugar dysfunction.”

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Please also review AIHCP’s Healthcare Life Coach Program and see if it matches your professional and academic needs and goals.  The program is online and independent study and open to qualified professionals seeking a four year certification as a Healthcare Life Coach

 

ADHD Consulting Certification Article on ADHD and Relationships

Posted on by Dominick Flarey

ADHD when undiagnosed can lead to multiple issues in adult relationships.  Partners may never know why a spouse or significant other behaves a certain way.  The ADHD may cause outbursts, spending sprees, or even rude comments.  This can lead to broken relationships when not understood why.  This is why it is so important to to identify ADHD as the culprit and to find the coping or medication needed to reduce the destructive symptoms in the relationship.

Relationships can suffer from undiagnosed ADHD. Please also review AIHCP’s ADHD Consulting Certification

 

The article, “What to expect from ADHD in relationships” from MedicalNewsToday looks at the problems that can arise from ADHD in relationships but also some of the benefits.  The article states,

“Depending on the person and the relationship, familiar ADHD-related difficulties may be present or new ones may arise.  However, a person with ADHD and their partner can use a range of strategies to work around these challenges. Also, many characteristics of ADHD can be strengths in a relationship. Below, we explore the challenges, techniques that help, and possible benefits of having a partner with ADHD.”

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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 certification in ADHD Consulting.

Clinical Hypnotherapy Certification Article on Hypnosis

Posted on by Dominick Flarey

Hypnosis is beyond a Las Vegas stage show but in reality is a science based on how the mind and subconscious works.  Hypnosis when properly employed does not put some under a mind spell but helps individuals face issues at the subconscious level.  Whether dealing with past trauma or facing an addiction or fear, hypnotherapy under a trained and qualified professional can be an alternative therapy that can help many people.

There is a science that supports the use of clinical hypnotherapy. Please also review AIHCP’s Clinical Hypnotherapy Certification

 

The article, “Is Hypnosis Real?” by Markham Reid reviews the science behind hypnosis.  He states,

“Once you’ve entered this hypnotized state — during which you’re still conscious, by the way — the person administering your hypnotherapy will suggest new ways of thinking about or engaging with the situation that’s giving you trouble. “The suggestions are different every time because people have different reasons or triggers for what they experience,” Kittle told me. For example, someone trying to overcome a phobia will require different suggestions than someone trying to quit smoking”

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Please also review AIHCP’s College of Hypnotherapy’s Clinical Hypnotherapy 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 Hypnotherapy

 

Grief Counseling Certification Article on Grief Therapies

Posted on by Dominick Flarey

Basic loss can be dealt with through coping and proceeding through the grieving process.  However, sometimes, grief can become complicated or more intense and require deeper aid and assistance.  Grief therapies can help an individual through loss and depression.  Grief therapies however are conducted under professional licensed counselors or psychologists.  If one is only a certified grief counselor, then they cannot delve into deeper grief pathologies, however, many licensed counselors and psychologists are also certified in grief counseling and may proceed with deeper treatments for deeper pathologies.

Some losses are so intense that the mind and heart do not heal and require deeper grief therapies. Please also review AIHCP’s Grief Counseling Certification

 

Grief however in itself is not a pathology and these other treatments can help those dealing with basic loss if necessary.  Some treatments in themselves involve cognitive responses to grief with reframing the loss or reinterpreting and others deal with deeper treatments in reviewing the loss and emotion.  Therapists are able to guide someone through trauma or greater loss.  Other therapies also include play therapy and art therapy for children.

The article, “Understanding Therapy for Grief and How It Can Help” from Healthline looks deeper at different grief therapies.

“It can be difficult to quantify or predict the outlook for people dealing with grief, especially since each person manages it in their own way. It’s also challenging to predict if any one treatment may work the best. Grief does not follow one particular path. Healing is unique to each individual, and the outlook for people dealing with grief looks different for each person. A therapist can play a key role in supporting the healing process by facilitating counseling sessions based on your situation.”

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Again, certain therapies can only be conducted by different levels of training.  Grief Counselors can usually deal with basic grief, but as grief becomes pathological or more deep therapy is needed, then higher trained professional are needed to help one through the loss.  Identifying complicated grief is key.

Please also review The American Academy of Grief Counseling and its Grief Counseling Certification and see if it 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.

 

Legal Nursing Training Article on Telehealth and Malpractice

Posted on by Dominick Flarey

Counselors and other healthcare providers are dealing with a potential increase of liability with telehealth but it does not have to be so with the increase of technology and other data collection.  With more information, telehealth can still be effective and reduce liability, especially in cases of suicide.

AIHCP offers a four year certification in Legal Nursing for qualified professionals. The program is online and independent study

 

The article, “Suicide and the malpractice myth” by Matt Miclette looks at telehealth and how technology can reduce liability.  He states,

“Despite fears that remote health assessment and diagnostic tools will increase medical malpractice liability — particularly in cases of suicide ideation — the adoption and implementation of a new generation of remote assessment and treatment plans during the pandemic are not only bridging the mental health care gap in formerly underserved communities across the U.S. — it’s lowering clinicians’ exposure to civil liability.”

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Please also review AIHCP’s Legal Nurse Training program and see if it meets your academic and professional goals.  The program is online and independent study and open to qualified nurses seeking a four certification in Legal Nursing.

ADHD Consulting Program Article on Identifying Adult ADHD

Posted on by Dominick Flarey

ADHD is usually seen more as a child mental problem but it is also very much an adult issue. If untreated, adult ADHD can cause a myriad of issues ranging from job stability to relationship problems.  When diagnosed, it can explain many of one’s personality traits and give some understanding why one behaves a certain way.  Treatment can help alleviate the symptoms as well and this is why it is important for it to be treated.

Identifying Adult ADHD is important and can help someone’s relationships and careers. Please also review AIHCP’s ADHD Consulting Program

 

The article, “What to know about untreated ADHD in adults” from Medical News Today looks at adult ADHD in greater detail.  The article states,

“ADHD can affect both children and adults, but the condition often goes unnoticed in people aged 18–44 years.  There are no laboratory tests that diagnose ADHD. When treating symptoms in adults, a doctor may evaluate a person’s medical and developmental history and look at their behaviors and how they interact with those around them.”

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Please also review AIHCP’s ADHD Consulting Program 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