Symptoms for ADHD are universal but they exhibit themselves differently in adults than in children. These symptoms can affect adult relationships, finances and work progress. It is important to identify ADHD within adults to help them understand why their life is a certain way.
Adults need to learn to cope with ADHD to ensure successful relationships and careers. Please also review AIHCP’s ADHD Consulting Program and see if it meets your academic and professional goals
The article, “Need Motivation to Cope With Adult ADHD?” by Dr Russell Ramsay looks at how to deal with the issues of ADHD in adulthood. He states,
“Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a uniquely frustrating condition to manage. Adults with ADHD struggle with various day-to-day tasks tied to work, school, at-home chores and errands, and even getting out the door in the morning, that most people navigate with only trifling bother.”
Adults with ADHD can live very productive lives but they need to know how to cope and deal with it. Please also review AICHP’s ADHD Consulting Program and see if it matches your academic and professional goals. The program is online and can grant certification to qualified professionals.
ADHD affects many children in the USA. Parents may not even know their child has ADHD. If a certain number of multiple symptoms exist, then a child can be diagnosed with ADHD.
There are numerous signs if your child has ADHD. Please also review AIHCP’s ADHD Consulting Certification and see if it meets your academic and professional goals.
The article, “14 Signs of ADHD: Does Your Child Have ADHD?” by Dr. Karthik Kumar looks at the multiple signs parents can look for in regards to if their child has ADHD. He states,
“Usually, children have trouble focusing and behaving at one time or another. However, children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) do not just grow out of these behaviors. The symptoms continue, can be severe, and can cause difficulty at school, at home, or with friends. Below are a few common signs and symptoms of ADHD:”
It is important for parents to be alert and aware for symptoms. To review the entire article, please click here
AIHCP’s ADHD Consulting Program can also help parents, as well as counselors identify ADHD symptoms. It is designed for counselors and non counselors alike who meet proper requirements to achieve certification. If you would like to learn more then please review the ADHD Consulting Certification and see if it matches your academic and professional goals.
Stress greatly depends on one’s personality. Personality plays a key role in how we interpret stressors and how we react to stresses. Certain characteristics and personalities are more conducive to stress and its ill effects.
Personality A is a type of personality that is more proactive, hyperaggressive, easily frustrated, impatient and assertive. One can vary within it. One can be on the higher end or the lower end of it. The important reality is that one identifies it as a higher stress prone personality and how one responds to these more natural impulses.
Personality A in work or home life is very consumed and competitive in life. The personality wants to accomplish as much as possible with limited time. It has a difficult time enjoying accomplishments, but judges them and looks for more. It finds little time to relax the mind. It finds competition with others and expects more out of others. Due to this, is is also prone to quicker frustration, as well as less patience in its everyday dealings.
Personality A is very hyper goal orientated but with balance it can help one be very productive. Please also review AIHCP’s Stress Management Consulting Certification
Stemming from this also is a perfectionism that goes beyond doing a good job but looks for impossible levels that cannot be reached. Due to this, many with Type A Personality are all in and when something goes wrong, they can binge to the opposite extreme. It also pushes one to overtly dependent on self with little trust upon others. Internal and external balance for achievement is in flux.
Believe it or not, this may look confident from the outside, but in fact, most Personality A also have low self-esteem. They need external approval and measure success by completed goals and achievements instead of one’s self.
Many individuals are Type A personality or share in the competitive and sometimes aggressive spirit. They have impatience and easy frustration and may exhibit lower self esteem deep down, but many are able to identify these impulses and alter them. They can use the impulses, much like OCD, or even ADHD, and utilize them for the good they create but not allow it to dominate them. Of course, the more severe the trait, the harder it is to be more relaxed, easier going, but balance is always the key.
Spirituality, a moral compass, and a objective conviction can also ground a personality driven by A. It can lessen the necessity of materialism and help one focus on the family and the soul.
Noone fits completely in one type of group. One may possess certain characteristics and not others within a personality trait but if one possesses enough traits and feels enough of the trait’s impulses, then one should be aware of it and know what it entails. In knowing this, one can better cope with one’s natural inclinations and live a more balanced and spiritual life.
Managing stress and having good health is essential to managing a Type Personality A. One can utilize the good drives that come from it but also manage the excess that can be found it. Balance is key.
If you would like to learn more about Stress Management Consulting, then please review AIHCP’s Stress Management Consulting Certification and see if it meets your academic and professional goals.
The pandemic has caused havoc in many life styles and routines. Going back to school is no different. The debate when or if to open schools have left many Americans in doubt. Some areas opened, while others did not and the areas that did open had new guidelines.
Back to school may be a difficult time in 2020 for ADHD children with all the issues of the pandemic. Please also review AIHCP’s ADHD Consulting Certification
ADHD can make everything more complicated. Parents helping prepare children with ADHD for school definitely will face harder adjustments. Whether at doing home schooling or helping the child adjust in school itself, it will be a challenge.
The article, “How to Help Your Child With ADHD Start the School Year — Whatever It Looks Like — with Confidence” by Ashleigh Morley looks at how to help your child prepare your child. She states,
“With so many unknowns surrounding the coming school year, one of the important, foundational things that Dr. Theresa Cerulli, a neuropsychiatrist specializing in treating children and adults with ADHD, says parents can do to give their kids confidence and prepare them for the year ahead is to keep them involved with the planning. “With ADHD, structure needs to be your best friend,” Dr. Cerulli tells SheKnows.”
Stress, as grief, is very subjective. There are many universal elements to the science of stress but subjective personality traits react differently to stressors. While certain things may be stressful in nature, they can affect the person differently with greater or lesser stress based on the person.
One of the biggest contributing factors to grief is one’s personality traits in how they react to stress and life itself. Some individuals by their very nature are more compulsive or anxious or even quick to anger. Some may be more controlling and combative. Others may be low energy and very passive and meek. They may even possess a level of apathy to situations. They may not care what occurs.
These attributes and qualities of individual personalities are a very important ingredient in understanding stress and one’s ability to cope with stress but also one’s overall health and life span. Personality A is the more active personality towards stress. It responds to stress but it can be so in an excessive or moderate ways. Studies show moderate but active responses to stress are good for health and life. Individuals who react to stress but in a moderate fashion, respond to stress in an appropriate way. Stress and issues arise and one needs to react but if one reacts in a measured but productive way, one can handle situations, resolve conflicts and minimize stress damage via controlled emotional response. The same is true of any moderate responses. Personality B is a more passive response to stress but again, if moderate it can be a beneficial response system. It passively resolves the stressful situation again with the appropriate energy and understanding of the situation.
What type of stress response personality do you have? Please also review AIHCP’s Stress Management Consulting Certification
It when personality A or B enters extremes that one sees negative health and higher mortality rates in people. Individuals who do not respond to stress at all and exist in apathy have poorer health and shorter lives, while individuals who over react to stress also face negative health risks. Like everything in life, moderation is key to any response. Balance in life is critical. Stress and its many stressors are not necessarily negative things in the temporal world. Things happen that require change but when one fails to respond to stressors or over react to stressors, then acute and long term chronic poor health can result.
If we are more aggressive or more passive, we need to develop moderation in our personalities to face and deal with stress. Moderate reactions acknowledge stress and form solutions prevent immediate negative health symptoms to our heart or blood pressure or cardio vascular and digestive systems as well as long term and chronic damage.
Obviously, our personality and how we react is only one of the many elements in stress management. Exercise, diet, relaxation and interpersonal relations at home and work all play key subjective roles in how one responds to stress, but our personality and how we choose to deal with stress is definitely one of the front line determining factors in how one will live his or her life.
If you would like to learn more about Stress Management or would like to become a certified Stress Management Consultant, then please review AIHCP’s Stress Management Consultant Certification and see if it meets your academic and professional goals.
Legal Nurse Consultants deal with deaths or injuries of individuals resulting in negligence or failure to comply to a standard by a medical professional. Terms such as medical malpractice and wrongful death are used daily in these cases
Legal Nurses deal with Medical Malpractice daily. Please review AIHCP’s Legal Nurse Consulting Program and see if it meets your academic and professional goals.
There are differences though in these phrases. The article, “The Key Differences Between Wrongful Death And Medical Malpractice” by Legal Desire reviews this difference. The article states,
“The law is a broad field of study and there are many facets contained within. One of the areas of law that most commonly affects us is personal injury law. Personal injury law covers medical malpractice, wrongful death, car accidents, slip and fall, etc. Today we are going to take a look at the differences between medical malpractice and wrongful death.”
Please also review AIHCP’s Legal Nurse Consulting Program and see if it matches your academic and professional goals. The program is open to nurses seeking certification in Legal Nursing.
Stress is usually the unseen enemy. It be gradual or sudden but overtime, stress can kill. It can cause problems with the mind, body and soul. It is important to understand the dangers of stress and how to properly cope.
While stress is very subjective it also has some universal aspects. A generally accepted definition refers to stress as “universal human (and animal) response resulting from the perception of an intense or distressing experience” (1) Stress can influence our behavior and responses and our ability to cope and react. Stress can gain a foothold in one’s life through an event but the event itself is not always universally stressful. Beyond the stressor itself, one must look at the person’s coping strategies, diet, exercise, genetic dispositions and daily schedules. Regardless, if stress is not properly coped with, it can cause a variety of diseases in the body, most notably heart disease.
The leading cause of stress unfortunately comes from work. Better strategies can reduce work stress and save millions to the economy. Please also review AIHCP’s Stress Management Consulting Program
With this danger of stress so apparent and modern humanity facing more stress than ever before, it is important to understand where stress originates in our lives. Ancient man dealt with stress at a basic level. Hunting, eating, gathering, and flight or fight responses. These needs were very much connected to the nature of man. However, humanity in the modern era faces many different types of challenges beyond the basic needs and these needs are rarely faced externally but allowed to internalize due to social norms and work.
Work is one of the biggest sources of stress but having a job is not necessarily the source of negative stress. One of the biggest issues at the job site is interpersonal relationships. The inability to deal with these issues leads to multiple problems. Work place violence is becoming a bigger issue in this nation as stress at work between employees continues to rise. The inability to properly work with others and deal with issues is a huge source of workplace stress.
In addition, on the job site stress can be related also to the work load. Work load is not always directly correlated to stress due to subjective reactions, but usually, overwork load can play a role in stress. Workload can be an issue due to quantity or quality of the work. Individuals with too much to do in a little time will experience work load stress, while others under trained to perform a task, may feel helplessly lost in fulfilling it.
Other issues can include, micromanagement. Individuals with less control and freedom to complete a task will experience higher levels of work stress. This dismisses the myth that higher level positions are more stressful. The fact is, lower level and moderate level positions have more stress due to a lack of freedom to complete tasks. Middle managers experience the most stress in being given tasks from higher management and then translating it to the floor workers.
Ultimately, most stress does come from work but it does not have to. Stress from work will exist at a healthy level but excessive stress is not usually due to the job itself, but more so the inability to work with relative freedom and in a non hostile environment with tasks conducive to skill set and time frame.
Without stress at work, ambition, motivation and completion of tasks would be impossible. With no stress at all, the mind would fall into disconnect and lack of interest, but it is important to avoid the other extreme where certain issues can lead to panic, anxiety and resentment. Unfortunately, for most, the natural level of needed stress in one’s life is not present. In work, it is either a lack of motivation or too much pressure.
In essence, it is not necessarily the job or the career, but the unneeded stresses that come with human interaction with job related tasks. Work is necessary and work is good but unfortunately it is also a leading cause of many people’s stress due to improper stress management and stress reducing policies in organizations.
How work and career is handled will greatly affect one’s health. Overworking, like anything in excess, can eventually cause health issues and death. In addition to over working, how one handles interpersonal drama as well as handling tasks is important to long term health. If interpersonal drama is minimal, and tasks are correlated with proper alignment of time and professional training, granting some autonomy to the employee, then less stress can be found at one of the leading places of stress.
Yet, stress is not only found in the work place. Stress is a very personal thing and can affect well beyond the work place but follow one with finances, health, family and loss of loved ones. These issues can accumulate and over time cause serious health issues.
Stress can be a source from work but also due to family, social, financial and personally losses. Stress can accumulate over time as well
Stress kills but it kills over time. It sends messages to the body to exert certain amounts of energy and hormones to face certain problems. While this is natural and important to achieve goals, chronic stress and intense situations can in fact hurt the body. Excessive tear on the body, internally and externally can create issues for the function of the body. Stress hence internally can affect heart health, cholesterol levels, stroke, as well as affect the body’s immune system through fatigue or tiredness. It can affect the digestive track, causing intestinal issues, as well as ulcers. Stress can also cause muscle aches, migraines and tightness in the muscles. Stress can also cause an array of emotional responses that can lead to anger, depression or anxiety. These in turn can lead to bad coping strategies through smoking or drinking and other drug abuse.
Stress overtime can kill. It can combine with numerous genetic, family, work, and social issues that weaken the body over time. Please also review AIHCP’s Stress Management Consulting Program
It is no wonder then that stress can kill.
In protecting oneself, no one answer suffices. One needs to have an overall holistic approach of body, mind and spirit when dealing with stress. And even then, genetic dispositions of bad health, or places in society or finances can still make it subjectively difficult for one to deal with stress better than the other. Regardless though, one needs to reduce the level of stress one faces in order to have a longer more healthy life.
If you would like to learn more about Stress Management techniques or would like to become Certified Stress Management Consultant, then please review AIHCP’s Stress Management Program and see if it meets your academic and professional goals.
The Stress Management Source Book: Everything You Needt o Know” by J. Barton Cunningham, PH.D
Anger is sometimes a result of intense self righteousness or firm belief in a cause. The frustration results from others who do not believe the same way. The individual is so firmly entrenched in his or her belief, RIGHT OR WRONG, that when others are oblivious to it, one can become triggered to rage or feel justified in one’s violence.
One can see this type of political and social anger today. Protests become riots and friendly political rivalries between friends become heated exchanges that can damage a friendship. This all stems from this ideal that one forms as an identity to oneself. One may despise a certain or like a certain president because of how he connects or disconnects from one’s belief system. The president can represent such evil to one that when others find good in him, the end result is anger that can turn rude or even violent.
Anger over political issues today is putting friend against friend. Please also review our Anger Management Training Program and see if it meets your professional goals.
Whether a president is good or bad is not the case in this article. The point is that one’s perception, whether valid or invalid, creates a source of potential anger which can become very rude or violent quickly. The riots taking place throughout the nation over race, police and reform is another prime example. When beliefs are so strong that justified or unjustified anger overflows into rage and violence, then one can see a larger issue. The anger may be critical to change, but when the anger becomes violent, then it becomes as evil as the issue itself.
Individuals who protest for change, or individuals who have a particular strong political allegiance to a party or president cannot demonize each other with propaganda, nor allow justified anger to overflow into violence. Violence is never justified. Terrorism is never justified.
Due to the division, the anger and rage, friendships are torn into two, relationships are torn into two, families are torn into two, communities are torn into two, and a nation is torn into two. It is fine to be angry. It is even fine to be angry if your wrong. What is universally wrong is when one allows emotions over issues to go beyond anger and social graces. It is wrong to allow anger over issues to become emotionally abusive and violent. Individuals need to utilize anger properly. To use it for true change, as well as better dialogue with understanding.
The riots of today will not solve any issues. The breaking and division of friends and homes will not solve any problems. What will change the problems is anger used properly and directed towards peaceful protests as well as meaningful and respectful dialogue between political rivals. This is something however that has been amiss. Our own politicians behave like children with name calling. The issue must be resolved from the family house to the White House itself.
Till then, we will continue to see friends, family and communities divided, as well as the rise of left wing and right wing terrorist groups that riot and threaten each other.
In turn, how can we react? We can stop believing that our opinion is infallible. We need to re-direct and see if our views are maybe in need of moderation. If not, so be it, but we need to access our beliefs as well as look to better communicate it with others. We need to be mindful that others may come from different backgrounds and approach situations differently. We can disagree with the their points but we cannot demonize them as individuals. We must further look to calm our own anger when others disagree. We need to utilize our anger to search for better ways to find justice without allowing our anger to become more evil than the injustice itself.
How we respond to social injustice and utilize our anger is important.
If we find ourselves too consumed with anger, like in any case, we need to walk away from the issue. We need to reflect deeper on our self and understand why we are angry and allow ourselves to find a time to calm down. If social media is a source of anger and frustration that can fall into the real world, we need to walk away from comments or threads that can create greater levels of anger. Every comment does not need a response.
If you would like to learn more about Anger Management or would like to review our Anger Management Training Program, then please review AIHCP’s Anger Management Certification and see if it matches your academic and professional goals.
What on an emotional scale is the value of your dog to you? What financial number would you place on your dog’s life? While many place the love they have for their dog equal to a human, courts have different views. Many love their dogs so much they will spend thousands to save him or her despite the low monetary values courts put in lawsuit cases.
Other things to consider is how long you have had the dog. Individuals tend to put less stock in a dog they may have just bought or found. Again with everything in life, love and grief are associated with attachment and bonds. The stronger the bond, the stronger the love and consequently loss and grief.
What is the value you place on the life of your dog? Please also review our Pet Loss Grief Counseling Training Program
The article, “A dog’s life :La Follette School researcher puts a number on man’s best friend” by AARON R. CONKLIN looks to understand how individuals differently value their dog’s life. He states,
“If you’re like most pet owners, the quick and easy answer is “priceless.” But in regulation and the courts, that sort of vague, emotion-based response doesn’t go especially far. Until recently, neither venue had any science-based estimate of dollar value pet owners implicitly place on the lives of their pets when they make decisions that affect their pets’ mortality risks. ”
So what value would you put on your dog’s life considering, he or she is young and been part of your life long enough to form a concrete bond? Please also review AIHCP’s Pet Loss Grief Counseling Training Program and see if you qualify to earn a certification in this field.
Exercise improves quality of life in every aspect. It helps with health issues, it helps keep the body strong and prevents disease. It also studies show helps keep one younger. Frequent exercise has the ability at the cellular level to reduce the effects of aging in numerous ways.
Exercise is a necessary component of any life style. It can help reduce the effects of aging as well. Please review AIHCP’s Healthcare Life Coaching Program
The article, “Work out and stay young” by Rita Matraia looks how frequent exercise can reduce aging effects. She states,
“We’ve written in the past about many of the positive health benefits of exercise, including how it can help a person be more productive, help to prevent heart disease, diabetes, cancer and weight gain, and improve a person’s mental health. All of these benefits can, of course, slow down the aging process, enabling you to live a longer, healthier life. But there are other reasons that exercise will keep you young.”
Exercise should be a constant staple in everyone’s life. It is critical to longevity and a healthy life. Please also review AIHCP’s Healthcare Life Coaching Program and see if you qualify to earn this certification.
