Light therapy

Examples of Light therapy in the following topics:

• Body-Oriented Psychotherapies

  • These alternative methods include (but are not limited to) eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), light therapy, hypnotherapy, and yoga.
  • Light therapy (also known as phototherapy or heliotherapy) consists of exposure to daylight or to specific wavelengths of light using polychromatic polarized light, fluorescent lamps, or very bight, full-spectrum light.
  • Light is usually controlled with various devices.
  • The light is administered for a prescribed amount of time and, in some cases, at a specific time of day.
  • Light therapy is used to treat certain sleep disorders and can also be used to treat seasonal affective disorder.

• Seasonal Affective Disorder and Jet Lag

  • Seasonal mood variations are believed to be related to light.
  • An argument for this view is the effectiveness of bright-light therapy.
  • Another theory is that the cause may be related to melatonin which is produced in dim light and darkness by the pineal gland , since there are direct connections, via the retinohypothalamic tract and the suprachiasmatic nucleus, between the retina and the pineal gland.
  • Bright light therapy is a treatment for SAD and circadian rhythm disorders.

• Research Methods for Evaluating Treatment Efficacy

  • The techniques of the therapist include the ways in which the therapist approaches the therapy sessions.
  • Ideally, therapies should use mixed methods to provide both quantitative and qualitative data.
  • Each type of data provides different forms of information, together providing a fuller evaluation of the therapy.
  • A meta-analysis comprises statistical methods for contrasting and combining results from different treatment-focused studies in the hope of identifying patterns among study results, sources of disagreement among those results, or other interesting relationships that may come to light in the context of multiple studies.
  • Describe the research methods and criteria that are used to determine the effectiveness of therapy

• Classical Conditioning in Behavioral Therapy

• Operant Conditioning in Behavioral Therapy

• Behavioral Therapies

• History of Antibiotic Therapy

• Other Approaches to Therapy

  • Expressive therapies use the creative arts as a form of therapy; systemic therapies emphasize the treatment of a system rather than an individual.
  • Expressive therapy, also known as expressive arts therapy and creative arts therapy, is the use of the creative arts as a form of therapy.
  • "Expressive therapy" is a general term for many types of therapy.
  • writing therapy, a term that may encompass journaling, poetry therapy, and bibliotherapy;
  • Systemic therapy has its roots in family therapy, or more precisely, family systems therapy, as it later came to be known.

• Biological Control of Microbes

  • Examples of such biological control included bacteriotherapy, bacteriophage therapy, malaria therapy, probiotics, and the use of living maggots .
  • Modern studies suggest that the use of biological control in the treatment of human infections should be re-evaluated in the light of the increasing world-wide occurrence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and the opportunities provided by recent developments in gene technology.

• Evaluation of Psychological Therapy Options

  • Therapy falls into two general categories: individual and group therapy.
  • Psychoanalytic therapy is based primarily on Freud's theories .
  • Gestalt therapy was developed by Fritz Perls.
  • Person-centered therapy was founded by Carl Rogers.
  • Psychoanalytic therapy is based upon Freud's theories.