EFT or the Emotional Freedom Technique is a new and innovative energy healing practice. It is based on the meridian points in the body and releasing negative energy but enabling energy to again flow freely through the body.
EFT can help unlock stress and trauma. Please review AIHCP’s EFT Practitioner Certification to learn more about EFT and if meets your goals
This is accomplished through a series of tapping procedures that are reinforced through verbal affirmations. EFT looks to unblock energy through this manual like acupuncture tapping. One can face past trauma and release the negative energy focused around it. EFT can also help one with depression or stress. It is an excellent way to calm a person facing a current issue.
EFT is relatively new but its ideas are age old and looks to help stressed individuals. EFT Practitioners can guide and teach clients through the necessary steps of utilizing EFT. EFT Practitioner certifications are offered by AIHCP. AIHCP offers an online, self paced program for qualified professionals and counselors who would like to utilize this modality in their practice.
The effects of EFT are amazing. EFT can help some clients quickly while others require longer sessions. With guidance, individuals can also self master the practice after a few sessions for themselves.
Great article on what Palliative Care as part of the overall Hospice care. Palliative care is more diverse in that it deals with the serious illness at any phase, helping many recover. Sometimes, it leads to ultimately hospice in itself, but Palliative Care can be part of your medical team.
Palliative Care addresses serious illness at any phase. Please also review our Pastoral Thanatology Program and see if it matches your professional goals
The article, “A Good Life And A Good Death: What Is Palliative Care?: by Camel Wroth states,
“Palliative care is attending to the physical, emotional and spiritual suffering of patients and families who are dealing with a serious illness. Hospice is a type of palliative care that we provide in the last six months of life.”
Stress is a major issue in the workplace. It not only is unhealthy for the individual but can also lead to lower productivity and distractions. Reducing stress in the workplace should be a high priority. Many look for ways to better cope and also utilize Stress Management Consulting professionals to help guide others.
How can work at stress be reduced? Please also review our Stress Management Consulting Certification and see if it meet your professional goals
The article, “5 ways to help reduce employee stress in the workplace” by Jonathan Cohn states,
Stressed out? You’re not alone. About 43 percent of the workforce suffers from chronic stress, according to the Society for Human Resource Management. This costs U.S. businesses upwards of $300 billion per year in absenteeism, turnover and lost productivity.
Substance abuse among underage adults is becoming a national trend. Data shows this rise in the teen population. As a society, we need to answer this call and see where to root out this addiction. It definitely starts at home but good substance abuse programs and counselors are also a need.
Substance abuse is on the rise for teens. Please also review our Substance Abuse Counseling Program and see if it meets your professional needs
The article, “Data show underage substance abuse on the rise” by by Kenneth Anton states in regards the dates,
“The number of substance abuse related felony hearings tripled during the same period. It should be noted that most of the Substance abuse cases, whether pre-expulsion or felony hearing, were mostly at the high school level, yet the lower grades were not immune to the unfortunate effects”
The article and data clearly shows that multiple addictions are on the rise in the youth and next generation. Please also review our Substance Abuse Counseling Program and see if it meets your professional needs.
Grief, especially traumatic grief due to shooting events, can leave families in a deep valley of despair. Such tragic events can alter lives forever and scar the future. Senseless and traumatic it is hard for families to understand why
Good article on mass shootings and how time never heals. Please also review our bereavement counseling certification
The article, “Time doesn’t erase grief, strong emotions connected to the victims of mass shootings: by Brian Hutchel states,
“It was April 1999 when the mass shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado shocked a nation. Video of students desperately sprinting from the school to safety under the watch of armed police flooded televisions across the nation.”
Great article on lowering readmission. Readmission is a huge problem for many institutions. It is not only financially good but also poor for overall patient health.
Better patient engagement can lower readmission. Please also review our Healthcare Case Management Training and see if it meets your needs
The article, “Patient Engagement Strategies That Prevent Hospital Readmission” by Sarah Heath looks at how better patient engagement can lower readmission. She states,
“Hospital readmission is a key metric in the value-based care landscape, with many programs looking for organizations to lower their readmission rates in an effort to cut healthcare costs. Using strong patient engagement strategies, organizations can move the needle on hospital readmission rates.”
Road rage and road stress are killers. Hence it is very important for truckers to have the best coping abilities on the road. Truckers need to identify stress and prevent it from turning into rage.
Truckers need to identify sources of stress on the road. Please also review our Stress Management Certification and see if it meets your professional needs
The article, “Reducing driving-related stress for truckers on the road” by Vishnu Rajamanickam states,
Workers within the freight industry are generally stressed at their job, as logistics processes involve split-second decisions and remarkable planning to make sure freight movement is seamless and cost-efficient. Truck drivers are a vital cog in the supply chain and often suffer from depression and significantly higher levels of stress
Divorce can be a painful loss for many. It is not only a loss of a love, but also a loss of many secondary goods. Learning how to cope, advance and become a new person are key.
Divorce can shatter our reality and can take a long time to recover from. Please also review our Grief and Bereavement Certification Training
The article,” 5 Strategies To Help You Deal With a Divorce Grief Relapse” by Karen Finn looks at some strategies to help one deal with potential divorce relapse. The article states,
“Divorce grief relapses are fairly common. They don’t necessarily mean that you’re not over your divorce. They just signal there’s still a little more accepting you can do to fully heal.”
A mass shooting event affects not just the community but the entire nation. It shakes the very core of every person. It implants fear and grief for everyone.
In this type of horrific and traumatic loss, one does not just experience tragic loss of life, but also a collective loss. So apart from the long term pain and grief of the parents and school administration, the nation as a whole experiences a national grief.
Mass shootings impose a loss and grief that is personal and communal to the entire nation. Please also review our Grief Counseling Certification
In addition to this national grief and fear, survivors of the account face their own inner demons. Survivor guilt can overcome many teens. They can question why they survived or question in what ways they acted.
The waves of grief and loss that rock a nation with mass shootings are too many to detail.
The loss of life, the loss of safety, the loss of peace and the continuing scars of survivors and families all cry for better laws to help protect America from these tragedies. What these laws entail, the law makers will determine but in the meantime, the types of grief that rock the country will continue.
Survivors will experience survivor guilt. In some cases, this can become so severe, that students, or survivors will commit suicide. Survivor guilt exists in soldiers from war but exists in any type of traumatic experience. In these cases, individuals will feel guilt over not dying and question everything they did that die. Post traumatic stress disorder can also manifest in the individuals who are attempting to move on in life past the incident.
Those not involved in the shooting, but from a more distance will experience a collective national grief. The nation will mourn the loss but also mourn the injustice. This leads to political activism as well as new laws. The nation however remains scarred psychologically with the indepth fear that a mass shooting can happen at anytime. Whether Americans are going to the movies, or dropping their child off to school, or attending worship, there remains a fear in the back of their minds.
This is a collective type of grief that a nation inherits from such tragedies. These events shake the individuals involved but also shake the very soul of the collective nation. Grief and loss is shared by many at different levels of loss. Some of these losses are more personal and intense while others experience this grief in a more abstract way.
If you would like to learn more about loss and grief then please review the American Academy of Grief Counseling and its Grief Counseling Certification.
Grief is about loss. The primary loss is not the end story of grief. Grief has many secondary losses associated with the primary loss.
Losses transcend just the initial shock but have waves of loss. Please also review our Grief Counseling Certification
The article, “Four Types of Grief Nobody Told You About” by Sarah Epstein states,
“The word grief has come to be understood solely as a reaction to a death. But that narrow understanding fails to encompass the range of human experiences that create and trigger grief. Here are four types of grief that we experience that have nothing to do with death:”
