First 16-Patient, Multicenter 'Domino Donor' Kidney Transplant Lead By Johns Hopkins
Surgical teams at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City and Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit successfully completed the first eight-way, multihospital, domino kidney transplant. The transplant involved eight donors -3 men and 5 women along with eight organ recipients - 3 men and 5 women. "All Johns Hopkins patients are in good condition and are recovering as anticipated," according to Robert A. Montgomery, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center.
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What Is Psychotherapy? What Are The Benefits Of Psychotherapy?
will react in a more positive way. Put more simply, interpersonal psychotherapy focuses on the client"s relationship with family members and peers and the way the client sees himself/herself. It explores issues in relationships with other people. The aim is to help the client identify and modify interpersonal problems, understand them, and to manage relationship problems. The majority of women with recurrent depression may be able to prevent subsequent depressive episodes with monthly maintenance interpersonal psychotherapy, say researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. *Group therapy In group therapy there are usually between 6 to 12 clients and one therapist in a session. All the clients have related problems. The clients benefit from the therapist, and also by observing how other clients suffer and respond to feedback. Getting feedback from other people with related problems gives the clients a different perspective and is frequently helpful in triggering improvement and change. Taking part in group psychotherapy can help men who have erectile dysfunction to overcome their problem, and adding sildenafil (Viagra) to group therapy was found to be more effective than sildenafil alone, according to a team of Cochrane researchers. *Psychodynamic therapy This is also called insight-oriented therapy. It focuses on the automatic processes as they are exhibited in a person"s current behavior. This type of therapy aims to increase the client"s self-awareness and understanding of the impact of the past on present behavior. It enables the client to take a good look at unresolved issues and symptoms that arise from past dysfunctional relationships and exhibit themselves in the need and desire to abuse substances. Put simply, psychodynamic therapy helps people understand the roots of emotional distress, usually by exploring unconscious motives, needs and defenses. Psychodynamic therapy is especially effective for people with complex mental disorders, personality and chronic mental disorders, as this meta-analysis revealed. Another study carried out by researchers at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center found that psychodynamic therapy is efficacious in treating panic disorder. What does psychotherapy treat? Psychotherapy is used for treating many different problems. Some alone, and some in combination with drugs. The most commons ones are listed below: *Depression *Anxiety *Post-traumatic stress disorder *Low self-esteem *Anxiety disorder, including phobias *Emotional crises *Marital problems *Family disputes *Obsessive-compulsive disorder *Personality disorders *Alcoholism *Addiction *Problems stemming from child abuse *Behavioral problems *Bipolar disorder (in combination with drugs) *Schizophrenia (in combination with drugs) What are the benefits of psychotherapy? Professor Mick Cooper, of the University of Strathclyde, England, writes that the most important factor in successful therapy is the client, not the therapist. Participating in psychotherapy offers a number of benefits for the client. It is usually helpful to have somebody who really does understand you. Therapy may give the client a fresh perspective on a difficult problem and direct the client towards a solution. Most patients will say that the benefits of psychotherapy include: *Being able to understand yourself and your personal goals and values better. *Developing skills for improving relationships. *It helps the client overcome certain problems, such as an eating disorder, depression, or anxiety. *Obtaining a solution to the problems or concerns that made the client seek therapy. What are the disadvantages of psychotherapy *Some clients may find that the treatment results in changes they had not expected, or did not want. *Some people do not like to have to relive unpleasant events (not all psychotherapy techniques make the client do this). Written by Christian Nordqvist Copyright: Medical News Today Not to be reproduced without permission of Medical News TodayPages: 1 [2]