When I first started my clinical training as a psychologist, some of the first techniques I learned were relaxation exercises. These are concrete, specific behaviors that clients can use to reduce the ...

Teaching cancer patients how to relax while they undergo a variety of hard-to-tolerate cancer treatments helps them cope with symptoms such as nausea and pain, according to a new analysis of 15 ...

Background: Relaxation training is a common treatment for anxiety problems. Lacking is a recent quantitative meta-analysis that enhances understanding of the variability and clinical significance of ...

Expressive dance movements are all about using body language to express emotions. This technique encourages individuals to ...

Exposure Therapy as the Gold Standard for Phobia Treatment Exposure therapy is the most widely used method for phobias, ...

Sit back, relax and let the sound waves wash over you. Sound baths — which do not involve water, but rather laying on a yoga mat and listening to instrumental music, such as the sounds of gongs, bells ...

Sleep paralysis -- a condition thought to explain a number of mysterious experiences including alleged cases of alien abduction and demonic night-time visits -- could be treated using a technique of ...

Palliative care is necessary to ensure comfort and an improved quality of life towards the end of one’s life when enduring chronic or fatal diseases. With the graying of the population in many ...