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How do I know if a therapy is working

The top 10 indicators that you are receiving a good therapy, medication or service: You are encouraged to work on learning, personal growth, rehabilitation or recovery as solutions to the challenges you face. You are respected and treated as an equal with choice and control over yourself. When you disagree…
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The difference between Counsellors and Consultants

I am trained in Clinical Counselling. Counselling is a valuable skill to build rapport and support good communication between ourselves. We differ from the counselling approach when we engage scientific evidence and data collection to do an Analysis of the challenges that you identify. At that point I become a…
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Judging whether your family member in care is happy & okay

Quality of life indicators are often discussed with people whose lives include barriers to obtaining security and satisfaction. It is an important issue for having good mental health and wellness. Indicators that are typically measured include: Having good physical healthHaving a homeMaintaining meaningful relationshipsParticipating in meaningful activitiesChoice and control regarding life activities Those are…
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What is Evidence-Based Therapy

Since Applied Behaviour Analysis and Parley Services’ work is grounded in these principles, here’s our stab at defining empirically-supported treatments and tips for using evidence-based decision-making. Much of the confusion with identifying a true evidence basis is thanks to an overwhelming amount of misinformation on the information spectrum that is…
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Health Care And Your Tax Dollars at Work

Most of the people who serve you in health care really do care about you and it shows.  When they really don’t and you have good evidence of that, you can go to the Patient Care Quality Review Board in your health region to make a complaint and they’ll listen. The problem…
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What is Normal Anyway

Over the last forty years the systematic pathologizing and medicating of individuals, has mushroomed, based on what we now know is false science and consumer manipulation. The website Mad in America collects the scientific evidence of this in North America.   CONTINUE READING
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Health Care And Human Rights

I heard about this on the news this week: Charter challenge of forced psychiatric treatment filed in BC Supreme Court.  I have been hoping for years that someone would tackle this. It is hard to defend people who seemingly have no rights and aren’t good at self-advocating in our systems and…
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Health Care – What’s the Problem

This is a new series of blogs to analyse why so many of our partners have lost hope and optimism, because of services and supports that tell you what you can’t do instead of what you can do. Many of our partnerships are with people who feel dependent and helpless…
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Understanding Applied Behaviour Analysis

It is challenging to explain Behaviour Analysis without using scientific principles because unlike other therapies the practice is based purely in science rather than in social theories. If you are curious and don’t mind science, read-on, and I will try to explain in plain language. Our successful outcomes depend on our…
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Is Mental Illness the New Normal

Accept life’s challenges and maintain resilience with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Somewhere in the hurry to diagnose psychological pain and suffering we have lost sight of what is a typical life experience. We are bombarded by messages everywhere that tell us that happiness is all that matters, and that there…
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Medication Use and Magical Thinking

Magical thinking is a common occurrence when someone sees a correlation with an observed effect, and pulls causation out of thin air. For example, believing that a particular piece of clothing is lucky because something great happened when it was worn. It is a belief based on jumping to conclusions…
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ABA Isn’t Only for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder

ABA Isn’t Only for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) ABA is widely recognized as a necessary treatment for children and adults with ASD. The epidemic of Autism Spectrum Disorder combined with an influential court case that made funding available in Canada for ABA treatment to children on the Autism…
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