Program In Pastoral Thanatology : Adding Life to the Days of Terminally Ill Children in India

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program in pastoral thanatology

The article, “Adding Life to the Days of Terminally Ill Children in India”, by Hila Mehr states

“The care is delivered to the patient and their family or support system, usually by a team of experts that include physicians, nurses, social workers, health aides, chaplains as well as support personnel.

American Institute Health Care Professionals’ insight:

This sad article looks at the reality of terminally ill children in India who cannot afford proper care.  Pastoral care givers hope to give some quality of life to these suffering children.

This is the primary purpose of any Pastoral Thanatology–to care for the dying, of any age.  It is even more painful when one sees death coming so early to these young faces.  The study of Pastoral Thanatology hopes to teach care givers the skills to help alleviate the suffering of the dying and guide them.

If you are interested in Pastoral Thanatology, then please review our program.  Our program in Pastoral Thanatology is for qualified professionals who seek certification in this field.  By taking the core courses in the program in Pastoral Thanatology, qualified professionals become eligible for certification

Recertification in the program in Pastoral Thanatology occurs after three years.  For those interested in learning more about the program in Pastoral Thanatology, please review our blog.  If you have any questions, please let us know.

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How To Stay Jolly With A Stress Management Program

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The article, “3 Tricks to Prevent a Nervous Breakdown at Work This Month”, by Tasha Eurich states

“The bottom line: Time off helps maximize the good stuff about this time of year. And in the battle to keep your cool this month, time with your loved ones may just be the best medicine of all.”

American Institute Health Care Professionals’ insight:

Stress management is key to a healthy and productive working environment.  This article looks at how to stay happy and stress free during the Holidays.

Stress Managers can help teach workers and managers to work in harmony and keep office life and the work place to be a happier place.  This article recommends one to take care of your mindset and to give yourself a break where needed.

This is especially true during the holidays.  The holidays can bring lots of stress not only to the home life but also to the office.  Good stress management techniques can help keep a happy and festive environment in the office during the Holidays.

If you would like to learn how to become certified in stress management, then please review the stress management program.  The Stress management program at AIHCP has core online courses that must be completed to become certified.  Those qualified to enter into the stress management program can become certified after the courses are completed.

Hopefully the stress management program matches your education and professional needs.  In the meantime, please enjoy the blog and if you have any questions please do not hesitate to call us.

 

 

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Courses in Grief Counseling: A Short List for Grief and the Holidays

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The article, “A Short List for Grief and the Holidays”, by Rev. Sue Wintz states

“For those who are dealing with acute grief, remember that they are probably living in a fog: nothing seems real because of the shock that grief causes.”

American Institute Health Care Professionals’ insight:

This article looks at how to answer grief related problems during the Holidays and how a bereaved parent or chaplain can answer them.  Many people who have not experienced loss do not understand the pain and loss people go through during the Holidays who have lost a family member.

The article discusses how the bereaved is mourning, what to say and how to help someone cope.  Grief counselors can help those grieving during the season with these basic steps.  Proper response can mean the world to a grieving person during the Holidays

If you are interested in learning more about grief counseling, then please review our program.  Our program consists of four core courses.  These courses in Grief Counseling are online.  After the qualified professional takes the courses in Grief Counseling, he or she then becomes eligible for certification.

If you are interested in learning more about the program, then please review the program and the blog.  If you have any questions, we will be more than glad to help you.

 

 

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Are Pharmaceutical Companies Over-Selling ADHD Drugs to Our Children?

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Is the Rise in ADHD Drugs a Pharmaceutical Campaign?

Could the increase in doctor prescribed ADHD drugs be because of pharmaceutical companies trying to cash in our the mental health of our children?   It sounds like the plot of a Hollywood thriller, however in this ending our child’s health is at stake.

By Alan Schwarz
From New York Times

“The rise of A.D.H.D. diagnoses and prescriptions for stimulants over the years coincided with a remarkably successful two-decade campaign by pharmaceutical companies to publicize the syndrome and promote the pills to doctors, educators and parents. With the children’s market booming, the industry is now employing similar marketing techniques as it focuses on adult A.D.H.D., which could become even more profitable.”

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Learning about ADHD counseling and alternative treatments to ADHD is the best way to keep your child off ADHD drugs.    We owe it to our children to give them the best treatments possible.    In today’s society it is fun to pretend a magic pill can solve all of our problems but often it is not.   The mental health of our children are at stake.   They deserve better.

Some alternative treatments for Childhood ADHD are; low processed and sugary food diet, plenty of exercise, keeping options for the child simple (for example only limit selections of dinner to 2 choices instead of a whole menu.), etc.    These are simple strategies to control your child’s ADHD without the use of potentially addictive and mind altering ADHD drugs.

If you are interested and want to learn more ADHD treatment strategies or would like to earn a certificate in ADHD Counseling please feel free to check out our webpage.

Become a Certified Case Manager and Help Hospitals.

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The article, “6 ways hospitals can reduce length of stays”, by Katie Sullivan states

“As hospitals and healthcare systems pinch pennies and look for ways to operate more efficiently,  a new CentralLogic report reveals six simple steps they can take to reduce length of stay and increase on-time discharge.”

American Institute Health Care Professionals’ insight:

Case Management is about quality for the patient but also reduction of price for both the institution as well as the patient.

This article looks over some simple steps to help hospitals run more financially smooth. This is very important because good case management can help hospitals and patients save funds and also improve quality assurance.

If you are someone looking to become a certified case manager, then please review our program.  If our program matches your professional and academic needs, you could become a certified case manager.

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The Only Advice You’ll Need To Start Meditating

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learning how to meditate

The article, “4 Commonly Asked Questions About Starting a Meditation Practice”, by Eden Koz (Kozlowski) states

“Meditation isn’t a one-size-fits-all kinda thing. I always recommend that you start somewhat loose. Commit without overcommitting or feeling like to you have to force it.”

American Institute Health Care Professionals’ insight:

This is a good article on how to start a meditation.  It explores four commonly asked questions about meditation in regards to practice and understanding.

If you are interested in learning how to meditate, then this article may answer a few questions that have been on your mind about learning how to meditate.  Learning how to meditate is simple but it does take discipline and some understanding of basic core concepts.  Also guidance from another person is an excellent way when learning how to meditate.

Also if you would like to learn more about meditation, then please review our program in meditation.  By simply taking the core courses in the program, qualified professionals can become certified as a meditation instructor.

Recertification occurs three years after the initial certification.  During that time period, one must complete fifty hours of continuing education and practice over five hundred hours of meditation.

This is an excellent program for those learning how to meditate or those wishing to instruct.  In the meantime, please enjoy the articles and blog, and if you have any questions, please let us know.

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Advent as Grateful Waiting for God’s Gift of Spiritual Companionship

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The article, “Advent as Grateful Waiting for God’s Gift of Spiritual Companionship”, by Donovan Ackley III, Ph.D. states

“Waiting has been a powerful spiritual theme in my life, especially with regard to decades of delay in being able to live as a fully adult man, delayed for decades as a transgender person stalled by both doctors and religious mentors in a wilderness experience of confusion and falsehood.”

American Institute Health Care Professionals’ insight:

Christian Counselors await the birth of Christ, like all Christians.  Advent is thus a time of waiting and preparing ourselves as the patriarchs of old awaited the coming of the Messiah.

Spiritual reflection, fasting and good works are an important element of Christmas, especially during the Advent season where we re-celebrate the birht of Christ. Those who are thinking of becoming a certified Christian Counselor can help prepare their spiritual children during Advent.  Whether Protestant, Orthodox or Catholic, any form of spiritual preparation is acceptable.  Advent or in the Eastern Church, Phillip’s Fast does not need to be just for one form of Christianity but can be shared by all, as one Church prepares for the coming of their Savior.   While the spiritual preparation is not as intense, as for Easter,  one should remember it is still a spiritual time.  The amount of parties and Holiday sensationalism sometimes switch the time of preparation as a time of celebration.

The reality is that the Christmas season starts December 25th, in which the Eastern Church proclaims, Christ is born! and our response, Glorify Him!

If you are interested in becoming a certified Christian Counselor, then please review our program in Christian Counseling.  By simply taking the core courses in the Christian Counseling Program, those thinking of becoming a certified Christian Counselor can become certified.

The certification can be renewed after three years.  Within those three years, the certified Christian Counselor must take fifty hours of continuing education and practice five hundred hours worth of Christian Counseling.

In the meantime, if you are thinking of becoming a certified Christian Counselor, then please review our site and blog.  If you have any questions, please let us know.

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‘Evil did not win” Newtown Shootings

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The article, “‘Evil did not win,’ say parents of Newtown victim as families launch website”, source; Fox News

“Parents of the 20 children killed in the Newtown shooting announced the formation of a singular website Monday dedicated to the memory of all the victims, while one family released an emotional video declaring that evil did not win.”

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Becoming a Certified Grief Counselor

Parents continue to show resiliency in their darkest grief in Newtown as they share their stories and courage with the world.  The families have jointly created a new website in commemoration of the deaths of those killed in the Newtown shooting almost a year ago.

Grief counselors or those becoming a certified grief counselor will notice a healthy use of their energy and time as they grieve via constructive ways–namely remembrance.

Parents from the shooting proclaim evil did not win, and that the memory of their child has prompted them to give more to other children and funds.  The love their daughter had for others lives on as they donate in her name to less fortunate children.  In this way, her memory lives on as well as her heart.

They also have been overwhelmed by the love of support of so many other people around the country.  That love and support shows the parents the good that exists in this world despite the evil action that took place.  The support also helps them push forward in their own healing process.

If you are interested in becoming a certified grief counselor, then please review our program.  In becoming a certified grief counselor, qualified professionals take the core four courses and then apply for certification.

After certified, they have three years until they can renew their certification in grief counseling.  Certified grief counselors need to provide fifty hours of continuing education and fifty hours of practical grief related service.

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Sandy Hook dad talks about 911 tapes – CNN.com Video

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American Institute Health Care Professionals’ insight:

A sad video about the loss of the families at Sandyhook.  The videos in order talk about the pain of individual parents, the needs they have and the disturbing 911 call.

Compounded with the holidays, the approaching anniversary of the shooting, and the traumatic loss itself, these parents are facing a grief nightmare that no-one can imagine.

The best thing according to grief counselors is for them to talk and for others to listen.

One particular sad moment is how the father of one of the victims, has left the Christmas tree up all year, which was to be decorated the weekend after the shooting took place.  The grief has paralyzed him from decorating the tree.  One can only imagine the pain and suffering and our prayers go out to him and these families.

If you would like to learn how to become a grief counselor then please review our program.  The grief counseling program consists of four core courses.  After completion of those four courses, qualified professionals can become a grief counselor.

After three years, the grief counselor must recertify if he or she wishes to continue.  Recertification requires five hundred hours of grief counseling related work and fifty hours of continuing education in grief counseling.

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Depakote – A Medicine You Should Not Take When Pregnant

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We all want the best for our children, but what if you find out that they are suffering from a condition that was brought about by a drug that you took while you were pregnant? I’ll bet that it is the hardest feeling in the world, and you have all reasons to feel guilty about yourself. But you don’t have to! You are not the one to blame. It is the medicine that you took in full faith that it will help you out with your health problems.

If you had been prescribed with the psychotic drug Depakote when you were pregnant, then you definitely have cause to blame other parties for your child’s condition!

Side Effects of Depakote

Depakote was intended to be used for the treatment of people with bipolar disorder who suffered from constant seizures. Specifically, it is an anticonvulsant drug. First marketed in 1983, Depakote was used widely in the treatment of bipolar disorder and epilepsy. To some extent, it has also been used to treat migraines as well.

However, Depakote’s successes are also offset by its side effects especially in pregnant women. In 2006, the US Food and Drug Administration released warnings to the public regarding the dangers of using Depakote while pregnant. This was when its research and studies revealed that a staggering 20 percent of pregnant women who were prescribed Depakote had given birth to children with defects. These defects include:

  • Anencephaly, or underdevelopment of the brain and skull. This usually results to stillborn babies or babies that die shortly after being born.
  • Spina bifida, or the failure of the spinal column to seal itself shortly before childbirth. This usually results to leg paralysis.
  • Heart defects
  • Cleft lip and palate

In a nutshell, the side effects of Depakote on the newborn can really affect their health and the quality of their lives as they grow up. That definitely is not something we would want for our children, and one more reason for you to sue Abbott Pharmaceuticals Inc. for damages and the corresponding financial compensation for your suffering.

Why Sue?

While you had willingly taken Depakote because it was prescribed to you by your physician, you had done so in full faith. After all, the drug’s labeling initially did not indicate or warn against any possible risks especially for pregnant women. This constitutes gross misconduct and negligent misrepresentation in the part of Abbott. Although the drug has been given a black box label in 2006, it has been 22 years between the drug’s release and the publishing of the black label. Countless women have already seen the often fatal side effects of the drug on their children.

If you have suffered side effects, then it’s time for a visit to a known Depakote attorney. This is the person that can truly help you when you finally claim for damages from Abbott for all the suffering that using Depakote has brought upon you. Make sure to bare it all before your attorney so he can build a solid case that you can bring to Court and expect to win!

About the Author:

Aside from being a private practice attorney and a writer for AttorneyOne.com, Nancy Sturgis spends most of her time researching in the Internet. A true bibliophile, she likes to collect paperbacks and reads it on her free time. She particularly loves the John Grisham courtroom drama novels, with the bestselling A Time To Kill as a personal favorite.

 

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