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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Therapy Assessment"”.
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Art Therapy Assessment and Sense of Safety
… to understand how artmaking experiences during assessment may influence the formation of the therapeutic alliance at the start of therapy. Rather than measuring therapeutic alliance directly, this study identified psychological safety as a vital component of the therapeutic relationship and an …
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Development and Reliability of a Music Therapy Assessment Tool for People with Dementia
… quality of life for as long as possible. Music therapy is one treatment option that has been shown to provide cognitive, physical, emotional, social and behavioral benefits for this population. However, music therapy-specific assessments are needed to document the clinical and research outcomes …
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Prediction of Discharge Destination from Initial Physical Therapy Assessment using the Physical Assessment Key (PAK)
… by information available upon the physical therapy initial evaluation using the Physical Assessment Key (PAK). There were 141 subjects (58 male, 83 female) included in this study and their ages ranged from 19 to 89 years (mean age=57.1 years). Each subject was given a PAK score on the day of …
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Towards patient selection for cranial proton beam therapy – Assessment of current patient-individual treatment decision strategies
Proton beam therapy shows dosimetric advantages in terms of sparing healthy tissue compared to conventional photon radiotherapy. Those patients who are supposed to experience the greatest reduction in side effects should preferably be treated with proton beam therapy. One option for this patient …
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Does The Picture Fit the Diagnosis? A Comparison of an Art Therapy Assessment, A Person Picking an Apple From a Tree (PPAT) and Existing DSM IV-TR Diagnoses in Children with Severe Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities
… IV-TR diagnoses in student files and the art therapy assessment to draw “A Person Picking an Apple from a Tree" as measured by the Formal Elements Art Therapy Scale (Gantt & Tabone. 1998). A pool of thirty-eight students enrolled in county special education classes for behaviorally and …
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In the Bird's Nest: Birth Orders Influence on the Art
… use of Kaiser’s bird nest drawing (1996); an art therapy assessment tool in conjunction with Simpson’s Attachment Index (1990). Due to the small sample size (n=45) distributed across three birth orders (oldest/only, middle, youngest) the findings were unable to yield statistical significance. The …
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The psychological effects of work-related hand injuries
… were sixteen patients receiving hand therapy for work-related hand injuries. An Injured Worker Survey was given prior to the initial hand therapy assessment. The participants' medical charts were reviewed to obtain medical history, demographic information and the "yes" responses for …
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Measuring Depression with the Hernandez Art Depression Assessment for Children: A Pilot Study Introducing a New Inventory to Measure Depression in Children with the Inclusion of Art Therapy
<p>This was a pilot study introducing a new art therapy assessment called the Hernandez Art Depression Assessment for Children (HADA). The hypothesis was that HADA will screen children with depression with the use of art. HADA was compared with the Children Depression Inventory to support the …
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Assessment of Multiple Personality Disorder Using Art Therapy
… of MPD.</p> <p>Verbal interviews and other assessments have failed to accurately diagnose MPD. The purpose of this research was to test the validity of an art therapy assessment designed to facilitate the diagnosis of MPD.</p> <p>The drawings of five women with a diagnosis of MPD were …
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Studies on the Changes Occurring in Speech and Masticatory Functions during Prosthetic Treatment // Изследвания върху промените, настъпващи в говорната и дъвкателната функции при протетично лечение
… on patients from Northeastern Bulgaria. A speech therapy assessment was conducted on patients with single frontal maxillary defects before and after prosthetic treatment. An analysis of masticatory efficiency after prosthetic treatment was also conducted using subjective methods. The study …
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Evaluation of a Developmentally-Based Music Therapy Tool for Children with Autism
… of the scores obtained with a new music therapy assessment tool for children with autistic disorder: the Autism Developmental Skillset Assessment (ADSA). Participants included one child with autistic disorder (N = 1, male, age 3) and board certified music therapists (N = 4). Five children …
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Original and Digital AVPT: An Art-Based Assessment Comparison Study
… that focus on the human experience such as therapy. One primary component of therapy which is beginning to bridge into the digital area is assessment. The purpose of this thesis is to explore a digital version of an art-based assessment.</p> <p>Digitalized art-based assessment has rarely …
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The Therapeutic Benefits of Children’s Literature: Responding Through Making Art and Writing Stories
… by the application of the Draw A Story (DAS) art therapy assessment tool by Rawley Silver (1988). The study takes place in three elementary school classrooms located in the greater Bay Area region. Previous literature addresses the historical uses of children’s books and their potential to offer …
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A mixed method investigation into the impact of activation therapy with and without word finding for people with aphasia
Background Information Impairment based therapy studies for people with aphasia indicate that therapy which involves word finding practice can help people with aphasia find words. Research has also suggested that the impact of therapy can generalise to other words not used in therapy and that it …
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AI Assisted Cellular and 3D Spheroid Analyses for Combined Therapies Against Glioblastoma
… survival of only 15 months despite maximal therapy. While combination therapies involving radiation with immunotherapies, epigenetic therapies, molecularly targeted therapies, etc., show promise, current methods for evaluating whether combination therapies work are slow, need extensive …
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Understanding Physicians’ and Non-Physician Practitioners’ Recommending Practices, Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs and Expectations Regarding Music as a Cost-Effective Complementary and Alternative Medicine Approach
… medical approach. Specifically, Music Therapy, a form of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) has been shown to decrease the severity of the problem by alleviating symptoms of an illness and improving overall well-being. The purpose of this study was to create a valid tool …
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Knee Osteoarthritis: gagCEST MR Imaging of Articular Cartilage
… MRI can help in clinical treatment planning a therapy assessment. The comparison with the gold standard delayed gadolinium-enhanced MRI of cartilage (dGEMRIC) was made on twelve college football athletes who has been reported to have higher prevalence of cartilage lesions than the general …
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Novas ferramentas para avaliação e monitoramento do controle da asma para crianças e adolescentes brasileiros
… properties of measures for asthma control assessment following the Consensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN). This SR summarizes 81 studies, covering 39 instruments. Study 2 comprises the process of translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and …
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Novel approaches to MRI of glioma
… glioma is insufficient for a thorough diagnosis, therapy assessment and prognosis prediction. Moreover, refined and more sophisticated imaging technique could help in furthering our knowledge of gliomas. In order to facilitate proliferation, cancer cells undergo a change in structure and an …
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Quantitative ultrasound assessment of thermal therapy in liver
… work, the potential of QUS to assess thermal therapy in liver tissue was examined. Specifically, the QUS parameters of attenuation slope, effective scatterer size (ESD), effective acoustic concentration (EAC), and envelope statistics parameters μ and k were evaluated with respect to their …
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