Basically the plan is to give tools and support to a person to break old patterns Think clearly, be healthy in mind and spirit and be effective in life and empowered. For these skills I use alot of Marsha Linehan's process of treatment called DBT; Dialectical Behavioral Therapy: Dialectical behavioral therapy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia see Wikipedia for details, again a great resource. Now what are we doing here is talking about forms of treatment where we are intent on getting a really good diagnosis, so we can make a really good treatment plan and start a treatment that is adaptable, flexible and works. The treatment planning thus has many variables in play sometimes we even work back from the solution{effective treatment} to the question. Of course to make it more interesting let's make it clear that the answer is not always DBT or it is that in combination with other forms of healing,in fact the treatment doesn't have to even use the same words, one person's pain in the neck to one chiropractor can be an acupuncturist's blocked chi, a good diagnosis simply to completely assess a person's bio-psycho-social-sexual-legal-spiritual and existential situation, in the moment and thru time and generations back on both sided of the family. Using MD's, MD specialists,therapist's ,family therapists social workers,learning and pain management specialists, and so importantly the self reporting and goals. Once all the info and opinions are evaluated, we can start to match the multiple goals through time to the person's safe goals.
the importance of this flexible approach is that it is dynamic; the results desired determine the approach rather than a stale programmed model. Thus we can be top down; that is we can treat each most serious symptom as it appears, or we can be bottom up; and treat all conditioned brain and other systems in a basic and strengthening way until progress in nueroplasticity and all body systems are strengthened until treatment requires a specific top down approach again. one of the reasons I like practical cognitive work like DBT, and also diet and yoga and endocrinology,etc. is the observable progress as well as the idea that skills in one system don't generalize but that all mind and body systems benefit from treatment and can change dynamically while being addressed and progressed separately and as needed at the time. This approach is especially successful when coupled with inspirational channeling into creative enterprise and improved personal and universal relationships, thus our model goes beyond just disease to eventually utilizing creative human potential. Thus we can treat addiction, pain body injury and traumas and other conditions, as needed in the order that works for the person. written 3/20/2008
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