May 11th 2012
Destructive Myths in Family Therapy: How to Overcome Barriers to Communication by Seeing and Saying — A Humanistic Perspective
Exposes destructive patterns of communication within family cultures and provides strategies for promoting more open dialogue among family members.
- Equips family therapists to help clients see the barriers they place in the way of healthy communication, and adopt more constructive alternatives
- Provides activities designed to spark open dialogue between therapist and clients, strengthening the therapeutic relationship and facilitating family interaction
- Includes communication strategies for reversing disengagement, defusing power struggles, overcoming sibling rivalry, disentangling marital problems and more
- Offers a new understanding of family dynamics, an area in which many family therapists want to improve their skills but have struggled to find a text to guide them in doing so
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a well spread disease among Americans. Old, middle aged and even young people are subjected to it. Both men and women may suffer from this disease. Because of irritable bowel syndrome thousands of men are forced to miss their work, loosing their time, or to be less productive than they might be. So this disease is a scourge of American economy and American culture. Still there are certain IBS treatments, which help to forget about this disease.
Researchers from the University of Washington have developed a sensor capable of sequencing a single DNA molecule. The sensor is based around a genetically engineered protein nanopore and has an opening one billionth of a meter wide, just wide enough for a single DNA strand to pass through.