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We are all aware of sexual orientation and its influence on sexual behavior, but the true nature of this complex occurrence is elusive. Despite extensive investigations there is no clear answer as to what sexual orientation is. Conjectures far outweigh proven fact. Based on extensive experience counselling clients regarding sexual orientation issues, such as discrimination and persecution, it became apparent that common perspectives are inaccurate. A major problem pertains to how theories of sexual orientation are generated, without first establishing criteria for a robust theory. Correcting this error, twelve comprehensive criteria for a robust theory of sexual orientation are presented. Major biological, evolutionary, and psychosocial perspectives are evaluated based on the theory criteria, revealing weak performance. With the goal of aligning clinical and research realities, and guided by the twelve theory criteria, a four-component approach—homoerotic and heteroerotic dimensions, activation/deactivation of these dimensions, erotic fantasy, and social construction—that comprehensively define sexual orientation, is proposed. This proposition represents the first novel theory of sexual orientation in decades, explaining many fascinating sexual orientation occurrences. It is a must read for researchers/scholars, graduate/undergraduate students, and sexual orientation counsellors.

A New Perspective On Sexual Orientation: Theory Meets Reality You Tube

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Psychotherapy is the most common intervention for mental illness when the full spectrum of problems is considered. Many clients have benefited enormously, suffering transformed into healthy functioning. Unfortunately, progress is often limited with approximately one-third drop-out rates an indicator, and for the two-thirds of clients that persist with psychotherapy, less than ideal outcomes are fairly common. Hence, an exploration of factors impeding the progress of psychotherapy, and application of robust strategies to reduce drop-out rates and enhance outcomes is required. Overcoming Barriers To Progress In Psychotherapy: A Clinician’s Guide, explores the full range of client, therapist, and interactive impediments to psychotherapy progress, and provides effective strategies to manage these barriers. Diverse and comprehensive theoretical perspectives are applied, ensuring that the material spans the range of therapies and mental health conditions. Illustrative case examples enhance the perspectives and approaches. With the knowledge and strategies provided, progress can be optimized allowing psychotherapy to achieve its full potential.

Overcoming Barriers To Progress In Psychotherapy: A Clinician’s Guide You Tube

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Indigo

States and Processes for Mental Health: Advancing Psychotherapy Effectivenesspresents a novel mechanism of action for psychotherapy, revealing how psychotherapy actually works by advancing key states and processes characterizing mental health. This new understanding is presented in three sections. The first section identifies 7 states and processes for mental health. The second section examines 15 major forms of psychotherapy and non-specific factors with a comprehensive overview of each, followed by an empirical and theoretical proof of concept showing how they do indeed enhance the states and processes for mental health. In the third section, the author explores conceptual and practical problems in the current approach to psychotherapy, whereby discrete forms of psychotherapy are oriented to remedying psychopathology. Dr. Bowins then offers a new trans-therapy approach applying general strategies and those derived from existing forms of psychotherapy, to advance each of the states and processes characterizing mental health.

Key Features

Identifies states and processes for mental health—activity, psychological defense mechanisms, social connectedness, regulation, human specific cognition, self-acceptance, and adaptability.

Reveals how current forms of psychotherapy and non-specific factors actually advance the states and processes characterizing mental health.

Demonstrates problems with the current system of psychotherapy.

Provides a novel unified approach to psychotherapy.

States And Processes For Mental Health: Advancing Psychotherapy Effectiveness You Tube

Elsevier

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Indigo

For the natural world to survive and thrive, it is an Inevitable Conclusion that humans must rapidly cease their destructive ways or disappear from the planet! A radical group of scientists from the Survival Alliance For Ecosystems (S.A.F.E.), is determined to force this decision on humankind by creating a doomsday virus, and presenting an ultimatum with the Manifesto for Social & Environmental Justice. When Scott Taylor of the International Wildlife Protection Agency hears of their plan, he initiates an investigation that spans the Caribbean, revealing the natural beauty of this region. Despite the best efforts of the investigators, the scientists always evade them, the reason for this occurrence highlighting the greed and destructive capacity of people. The fate of humankind is settled at the Valley of Desolation and Boiling Lake of Dominica, sites symbolizing the power and resilience of nature.

Inevitable Conclusion You Tube

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Activity for Mental Health explores all forms of activity, as a means to both manage mental illness and advance mental health in the general population. This book not only reviews the evidence behind activity, but also reveals why it is so effective. Physical, social, nature, cognitive, art/hobby, and music activity are thoroughly investigated in separate chapters. The focus is on informal activity therapy as a simple, direct, and very positive intervention. More formal Behavioral Activation Therapy (BAT) is also presented to demonstrate the power of behavioral activation. Case examples connect the benefits with real life scenarios and assist in the application of activity therapy. From this comprehensive coverage, Activity for Mental Healthprovides the information needed for clinicians, researchers, and policy makers, to effectively treat mental illness and advance mental health.

Key Features

Distinguishes informal activity therapy from more formal Behavioral Activation Therapy (BAT), revealing the role that behavioral activation plays in both.

Provides evidence for physical, social, nature, cognitive, art/hobby, and music activity, in regards to treating mental illness and advancing mental health in the general population.

Reveals the unique ways that specific forms of activity work, as with nature exposure modulating nervous system stress responses and music processing emotions.

Highlights the core reasons why activity is so robust, including evolutionary influences.

Presentation of intriguing case examples showing the negative impact of inactivity and benefits of activity for mental health.

Demonstrates the ease of applying activity therapy, thereby providing clinicians with a simple and robust intervention strategy.

Activity For Mental Health You Tube

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Imagine a book that provides the answer to what happens after our time on this world is over, reveals a “treasure” worth more than all others combined, and merges religion and science. The Informative God is that book! Following a life changing event, a young internal medicine specialist embarks on a round the world odyssey to uncover the meaning of life and death. This adventurous journey of discovery highlights the contribution of past and present religions. Making the most of this information and the input of science, he achieves the answer that also identifies a “treasure” of infinite value. Consistent with the uniqueness of these discoveries, the book represents a first for combining fiction, non-fiction, and travelogue. For a refreshing and optimistic answer to the ultimate question, take a journey of discovery to The Informative God.

The Informative God You Tube

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Accurately defining mental illness is crucial for treatment providers and researchers, because it fosters a comprehensive understanding and optimizes therapeutic interventions. In addition, it frees psychopathology from political and financial influences that weaken its scientific integrity.

In combination, continuums, regulation, and defense, robustly define mental illness.

Continuums: Psychopathology embodied by major diagnostic systems (DSM and ICD) emphasizes discrete conditions, in line with our psychological preference for discreteness. However, nature almost universally gravitates to continuums. Naturally occurring mental illness continuums are identified, based on neuroscience and other relevant data.

Regulation: Despite how biological systems rely on regulation, it is largely neglected when it comes to mental illness. Psychopathology frequently arises from impaired regulation, fostering a shift from milder expressions on continuums to extreme manifestations. A diverse collection of therapeutic techniques, under the umbrella of cognitive regulatory control therapies, is presented that restore effective regulation.

Defense: The surprising role of psychological defense, understood in terms of compensation for stressors, is described for the various mental illness continuums, and techniques are provided to augment healthy defensive functioning.

The model of psychopathology proposed aligns with its natural organization, thereby placing mental illness on a more scientific foundation.

Mental Illness Defined: Continuums, Regulation, And Defense You Tube

Routledge

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No aspect of who we are generates more inner confusion, turmoil, and misunderstanding than sexual orientation. In addition, discrimination and persecution based upon homosexuality, bisexuality, and transgender is still rampant. We all live with our sexual orientation but no one really understands it, warranting the question, what is it all about? A key to this mystery is the so-called evolutionary paradox of how behavior that does not lead to reproduction could ever have evolved. Current theories fail to explain this paradox. As a researcher with several game changing theories, founder of the Centre For Theoretical Research In Psychiatry & Clinical Psychology, and psychiatrist having treated many people suffering from sexual orientation issues, Dr Bowins solves this paradox, and outs the truth about sexual orientation. As it turns out, we all have the capacity and motivation for both homoerotic and heteroerotic behavior, with dimension activation, erotic fantasy, and social construction playing key roles in how sexual orientation is expressed. The enlightened perspective presented offers the hope of much less discrimination and real self-acceptance.

Outing The Truth About Sexual Orientation You Tube

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Collectively we are engaging in self-destructive behavior, compromising our present and jeopardizing our future. Rampant greed, irregular regulation, unrestrained urban and resource development, out of control global warming, biased pharmaceutical and biotechnology research, and lethal levels of obesity, are all severely damaging us. Dr. Bowins drills down exposing these forms of self-destruction, and shows why we might be setting ourselves up for widespread revolution and devastation. Also revealed is how our psychological defenses ironically perpetuate major forms of self-destructive behavior. We have reached the tipping point, but the solutions proposed can save us from self-destruction, if we each take action.

At The Tipping Point: How To Save Us From Self-Destruction You Tube

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At the Tipping Point

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Vasectomy:  The Cruelest Cut Of All exposes the modern medical nightmare that is Post-Vasectomy Pain Syndrome (PVPS). Widely viewed as “safe and simple” vasectomy frequently produces lifelong pain, often worsened by sexual activity, arising months or years after the procedure. PVPS represents the proverbial tip of the iceberg, damage to the male reproductive system comprising the massive portion below the surface. Too ashamed to speak up many men suffer in silence unless the pain is agonizing. Effective treatment for the affliction is very expensive and not readily available in many countries where vasectomy is heavily promoted.  This comprehensive and clear exposition of the topic covers changes to the male reproductive system following vasectomy, the incidence and symptoms of PVPS, mechanisms of pain, treatment options, counselling and informed consent, and other vasectomy related problems. It is a must read for men and their spouses considering a vasectomy, those experiencing pain following a vasectomy, physicians providing this procedure, and counsellors.

Vasectomy The Cruelest Cut Of All, Second Edition, You Tube

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FIRST EDITION (2006-2023)

Vasectomy is widely promoted as a “safe and simple procedure.” Rarely are men or their spouses informed that a life long pain condition, known as Post-Vasectomy Pain Syndrome (PVPS), is caused by the procedure. Months or years after being vasectomized, close to 15% of men will experience pain in one or both testicles, with the pain being severe in approximately 5%. Frequently, the pain is worsened by sex and other physical activities, motivating the sufferer to avoid pleasurable pursuits. Too embarrassed to speak up about the problem, many men suffer in silence, and if they do raise the issue with a physician the problem is often misdiagnosed, particularly when years have passed since the vasectomy. In third world countries where vasectomy is intensely promoted as a “safe and simple procedure,” effective treatment is essentially non-existent. Treatment for PVPS often involves sophisticated microsurgery that is very expensive, not covered by most health insurance plans, and not widely available. For those lucky enough to access treatment there is often no resolution of the pain, as it can recur on the treated side and arise in a seemingly unaffected testicle. Vasectomy: The Cruelest Cut Of All (The Modern Medical Nightmare Of Post-Vasectomy Pain Syndrome) debunks the “safe and simple procedure” myth and calls for an end to vasectomy.

Vasectomy: The Cruelest Cut Of All You Tube

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