Assignment: Rage Therapy Complementary and Integrative Health Paper

The class is Complementary and Integrative Health (all about mindfulness and holistic practices – natural health)

The topic I chose was Rage Therapy

• Individual projects will be presentations about a topic associated with Complementary and Integrative Healing modalities from the provided topic list. The student is to select one form of healing and experience it if possible himself or herself or interview an individual that has direct knowledge with the experience of the therapy themselves.

A systematic review of controlled trials concluded that cognitive behaviour therapy appears to be effective as an intervention for anxiety disorders in children and adolescents, although just over half of patients will improve with this treatment.4 Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are recognised as an efficacious treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder in this age group.5 It has been suggested that the increased risk of suicidal behaviour linked to depressed children’s and adolescents’ use of SSRIs may not apply in treating those with mental disorders other than depression.6 Little is known about the efficacy of other pharmacological interventions for anxiety disorders in this age group.1

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and self-help treatments that claim to relieve anxiety symptoms are more readily available to the individual, either by purchase in supermarkets, health food stores, and on the Internet, or by undertaking particular activities. Such treatments may be used by children and adolescents or given by their parents. There are few CAM and self-help treatments for anxiety in adults with evidence of efficacy,7 and only minimal information is available publicly on the efficacy of such alternative treatments in reducing anxiety in children and adolescents.

Another reason for examining these treatments is that they are commonly used with children and adolescents. For example, a United States survey of children and adolescents attending an outpatient psychiatry clinic showed that 11% were using herbal medicines.8 This use has implications for compliance with conventional treatments, as well as for potential drug interactions and adverse events.

This review summarises the evidence on CAM and self-help interventions as effective treatments for children and adolescents with anxiety disorders or situationally specific symptoms of anxiety, including test anxiety, anxiety relating to medical treatments, and specific children’s fears (eg, fear of the dark). CAMs are treatments that are usually not supported in the dominant medical systems in Western countries, while self-help treatments are those which the individual is able to use without first seeking advice from a health care professional.

Methods
A literature search was performed of CAM and self-help treatments previously reviewed for anxiety in adults.7 PubMed, PsycINFO and the Cochrane Library were searched using the following terms: name of treatment AND (anxiety OR panic OR phobi* OR agoraphobi* OR post traumatic stress OR posttraumatic stress OR acute stress OR obsessive compulsive) AND (adolescen* or youth or young or children or juvenile or pediatric). The list of treatment terms used in the searches is available on request. The literature searches were performed up to February 2006, except for bibliotherapy, which was searched up to June 2006. Studies were included if participants were identified as children or adolescents, or if the mean age of participants was 19 years or younger. Included studies were required to assess interventions for anxiety disorders (formally diagnosed or highly symptomatic samples) or assess interventions for situational anxiety such as test anxiety, preoperative anxiety and specific children’s fears. Studies were excluded if participants were healthy volunteers or had anxiety secondary to other problems (eg, learning disabilities, juvenile delinquents, and psychiatric inpatients).

The literature on each treatment was independently evaluated by a pair of reviewers according to the Oxford Centre for Evidence-based Medicine levels of evidence (see Box 1), who then reached a consensus. The level of evidence refers to the certainty with which conclusions can be drawn, rather than whether the evidence is supportive of a particular treatment. As such, an intervention that has been shown in a well designed study to be ineffective would be described as having a high level of evidence.

Important information for writing discussion questions and participation

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Hello class and welcome to the class and I will be your instructor for this course. This is a -week course and requires a lot of time commitment, organization, and a high level of dedication. Please use the class syllabus to guide you through all the assignments required for the course. I have also attached the classroom policies to this announcement to know your expectations for this course. Please review this document carefully and ask me any questions if you do. You could email me at any time or send me a message via the “message” icon in halo if you need to contact me. I check my email regularly, so you should get a response within 24 hours. If you have not heard from me within 24 hours and need to contact me urgently, please send a follow up text to

I strongly encourage that you do not wait until the very last minute to complete your assignments. Your assignments in weeks 4 and 5 require early planning as you would need to present a teaching plan and interview a community health provider. I advise you look at the requirements for these assignments at the beginning of the course and plan accordingly. I have posted the YouTube link that explains all the class assignments in detail. It is required that you watch this 32-minute video as the assignments from week 3 through 5 require that you follow the instructions to the letter to succeed. Failure to complete these assignments according to instructions might lead to a zero. After watching the video, please schedule a one-on-one with me to discuss your topic for your project by the second week of class. Use this link to schedule a 15-minute session. Please, call me at the time of your appointment on my number. Please note that I will NOT call you.

Please, be advised I do NOT accept any assignments by email. If you are having technical issues with uploading an assignment, contact the technical department and inform me of the issue. If you have any issues that would prevent you from getting your assignments to me by the deadline, please inform me to request a possible extension. Note that working fulltime or overtime is no excuse for late assignments. There is a 5%-point deduction for every day your assignment is late. This only applies to approved extensions. Late assignments will not be accepted.

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Plagiarism is highly prohibited. Please ensure you are citing your sources correctly using APA 7th edition. All assignments including discussion posts should be formatted in APA with the appropriate spacing, font, margin, and indents. Any papers not well formatted would be returned back to you, hence, I advise you review APA formatting style. I have attached a sample paper in APA format and will also post sample discussion responses in subsequent announcements.

Your initial discussion post should be a minimum of 200 words and response posts should be a minimum of 150 words. Be advised that I grade based on quality and not necessarily the number of words you post. A minimum of TWO references should be used for your initial post. For your response post, you do not need references as personal experiences would count as response posts. If you however cite anything from the literature for your response post, it is required that you cite your reference. You should include a minimum of THREE references for papers in this course. Please note that references should be no more than 5 years old except recommended as a resource for the class. Furthermore, for each discussion board question, you need ONE initial substantive response and TWO substantive responses to either your classmates or your instructor for a total of THREE responses. There are TWO discussion questions each week, hence, you need a total minimum of SIX discussion posts for each week. I usually post a discussion question each week. You could also respond to these as it would count towards your required SIX discussion posts for the week.

I understand this is a lot of information to cover in 5 weeks, however, the Bible says in Philippians 4:13 that we can do all things through Christ that strengthens us. Even in times like this, we are encouraged by God’s word that we have that ability in us to succeed with His strength. I pray that each and every one of you receives strength for this course and life generally as we navigate through this pandemic that is shaking our world today. Relax and enjoy the course!

Hi Class,

Please read through the following information on writing a Discussion question response and participation posts.

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Important information on Writing a Discussion Question

• Your response needs to be a minimum of 150 words (not including your list of references)
• There needs to be at least TWO references with ONE being a peer reviewed professional journal article.
• Include in-text citations in your response
• Do not include quotes—instead summarize and paraphrase the information
• Follow APA-7th edition
• Points will be deducted if the above is not followed

Participation –replies to your classmates or instructor

• A minimum of 6 responses per week, on at least 3 days of the week.
• Each response needs at least ONE reference with citations—best if it is a peer reviewed journal article
• Each response needs to be at least 75 words in length (does not include your list of references)
• Responses need to be substantive by bringing information to the discussion or further enhance the discussion. Responses of “I agree” or “great post” does not count for the word count.
• Follow APA 7th edition
• Points will be deducted if the above is not followed

• Remember to use and follow APA-7th edition for all weekly assignments, discussion questions, and participation points.
• Here are some helpful links
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