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How to Develop the Internal Locus of Control
The Internal-External Locus of Control Scale, developed by Julian Rotter, is a valid predictor of personality and behavior. Those with an internal locus of control attribute successes and failures to...
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How to Find Personal Strength
Each one of us possesses strength within ourselves that often lies untapped because we don't look inward, especially during the our everyday busy lives. But when tough times come, that strength is...
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Definition of Progressive Relaxation
Progressive relaxation, also known as progressive muscle relaxation (PMR), can train people to master their stress levels by deliberately inducing relaxation in their muscles. The technique relies on...
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How to Set Up a Stress Management Program
Stress is normal physical and mental response to events in our lives. Small doses of stress can motivate us at times, but a person who experiences constant stress may require a stress management...
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Unemployment & Alcohol Abuse
Alcoholism is a big enough issue for many people, but it can become intolerable when a person is unemployed. In addition, going without a job can put nonalcoholics at risk of drinking too much. Even...
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Online Activities Dealing With Anger Management in Teens
Teaching adolescents to deal with anger involves focusing on constructive ways to communicate effectively, identify the feelings of others, develop empathy and cope effectively with stress. Resources...
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How Your Daily Journal Writing Can Help Reduce Stress
People often use writing as a positive outlet for their emotions and ideas, whether it be creative writing, non-fiction or other forms. Journal writing specifically is a tool that can help to release...
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How to Find Passion & Purpose
Finding a passion and purpose for your life seems difficult in today's fast-paced world. Don't ignore this basic human need to search for meaning. Only you can discover what brings joy to your life....
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Nothing is worse than coping with the loss of a loved one. It feels like a piece of your soul has been removed, leaving you wounded and grieving to your very core. Moving on after such a loss isn't...
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Internal Vs. External Locus of Control Managing
Locus of control refers to the way a person processes events in his or her life. Locus of control is the source to which a person attributes successes or failures. How an individual attributes blame or...
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How to Deal With Ptsd
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a condition that prolongs the anxiety and stress of a painful or traumatic experience, negatively impacting normal life. People with PTSD may experience many...
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Caregivers & Anxiety
The National Alliance for Caregiving, in collaboration with the AARP, reports that more than 65 million people, 29 percent of the U.S. population, spend approximately 20 hours per week providing care...
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Role of Crisis Counseling in Natural Disasters
When natural disasters strikes, varying degrees of chaos and destruction can affect those involved. Some may invariably require physical, financial and emotional assistance to get back on their feet....
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How to Grow Confidence & Self Esteem
Self-esteem and confidence play a big role in our lives. Those traits can propel us toward our dreams and healthy lifestyles and inspire us when we're down. When we have low self-esteem, life can seem...
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How to Deal With Emotional and Behavioral Changes After a Stroke
After someone you care for has a stroke, she may seem like an entirely different person. A stroke affects the brain even if it didn't occur in the brain--centers of communication and emotion can be...
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How to Develop a Positive Mental Attitude
Positive thinking is the discipline of take conscious control over your thoughts in order to eliminate or minimize negative attitudes and replace them with positive attitudes. This requires time and...
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How to Set Goals for Self Management
Anyone can set goals for self management. The trick is setting goals and sticking to them. Fortunately, with the right motivational tools and quantifiable goals, keeping on track with your goals can be...
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How to Use NLP
Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) "takes advantage of the naturally occurring patterns found in language, both verbal and non verbal," according to Full Spectrum Communications. "Neuro" refers to the...
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Fragrances to Create Emotions
Fragrances have been used to create emotions since ancient times.The article "Aromatherapy and Emotions" by Dr. Joie Power states that records found in the archives of ancient cultures in India, China...
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How to Change Your Mood
Everyone has occasional black moods. Changing your bad mood isn't difficult. It just takes a little work and some responsible living. According to, natural-homeremedies.com, each color has its own...
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Job Description of a Recreation Program Coordinator
A recreation program coordinator or director's job description includes program and event planning; marketing and promotion of activities; supervision of group recreational activities; facility...
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Define Recreation Therapist
A recreation therapist, or more correctly, a therapeutic recreation specialist, is a member of the treatment team in many mental health and rehabilitation facilities. A certified therapeutic recreation...
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Scents for Helping With Relaxation & Depression
An effective and natural way to calm the mind and ease depression is to use aromatherapy. Aromatherapy involves the use of essential oils with both uplifting and soothing properties to produce pleasant...
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Cons of a Life Coach
A life coach can help a person navigate through life's choppy waters, such as relationship heartbreaks or career woes. Their focus is on transforming clients into confident winners with can-do...
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Freesia in Aromatherapy
Freesia flowers originated in South Africa as a type of iris. It comes in many colors including purple, red, yellow and orange. The plant got its name from Dr. Fredrich Freese, who studied South...
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Goals & Techniques for Positive Thinking
SuccessConsciousness.com describes positive thinking as an attitude where the mind entertains thoughts that foster personal growth and success, expecting positive results in life. The Mayo Clinic says...
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Internal and External Conflict
The concepts of internal or external conflict are highly broad ways to categorize conflict in general. External conflict, in very general terms, refers to threats that originate outside of the person...
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Stages of Motivational Interviewing
Motivational interviewing (MI) is a client-centered counseling approach that helps patients make life-improving changes in their lives. Motivational interviewing avoids confrontation and judgment and...
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How to Hypnotize People for Fun
The website Findcounseling.com likens the hypnotic state to building an accessible bridge between the sub-conscious and conscious mind. The website explains that when hypnotized, "You are...
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How to Use Conflict to Your Advantage
Though conflict can be emotionally charged and volatile, you can benefit from it. Conflict can be distracting and consuming for those directly involved in the disagreement. For those not directly...
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How to Learn Meditation Dance
Meditation dance forms blend physical, mental, emotional and spiritual experiences. Religious and secular forms of meditative dance are found in many parts of the world. People of any age, size, gender...
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How to Avoid Blushing When You're Nervous
Blushing is a normal reaction when you feel certain emotions, creating a rush of blood to the face that turns it red. In most cases, blushing isn't a conscious reaction, but it's still difficult to...
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Characteristics of Internal Locus of Control
People develop a theory of "locus of control" as they get older. The term "locus of control" refers to a person's attitudes about what leads to success or failure. If someone believes his own actions...
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How to Develop Super Self Confidence
A good way to develop super self-confidence is to not obsess over the talents you wish you had or your flaws you do have. For example, you may feel that your occasional panic attacks are keeping you...
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Therapeutic Discussion Topics for Role Play for Kids
Therapeutic role play can have a strong effect on a child's ability to cope with both past and future events. Role play can also act as a springboard from which a therapist or other adult can begin a...
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How to Overcome Emotional Pain From a Divorce
Learning how to deal with the emotional pain of divorce is something with which many divorced people struggle. They often feel a profound sense of loss and have feelings of anger, guilt and resentment....
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Top 10 Stress Busters and Relievers
With our busy lifestyles nowadays, experiencing stress from time to time is inevitable. Although minor instances of stress may help motivate us to work harder and increase our productivity, constant...
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Executive Function Training
Executive function training involves simple strategies to improve self-control, organization, memory and time management. Executive functions are the processes in our brain that control planning,...
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What Is an Easy Way to Clear My Mind?
Life can be stressful--we may have troubles with relationships, money, jobs or family that make day-to-day living seem like one problem situation after another. When we become mired in the complexities...
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How Writing in a Journal Helps
Writing in a journal has numerous emotional health benefits. Journaling also has other mental health advantages; it is relativity cost effective, requiring only a pencil and notepad. Writing in a...
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Behavior Writing Activities
It may seem too simple that a pen and paper or computer's keyboard can streamline your behavior, reduce stress and increase productivity, but implementing a few behavioral activities with writing...
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How to Learn to Be More Happy in Life
No one can be happy all the time. But if you structure your life to give yourself more opportunities for joy, you could start a snowball of happiness.
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Tools for Measuring Stress
In the 21st century working environment with its high-pressure demands and long work hours, stress is a common malady that can affect anyone. If you work in a potentially high-stress environment, it is...
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How to Cope with the Unexpected Death of a Loved One
Even if a person has been ailing from a terminal disease for several years, death can take you by surprise. An unexpected death can also be the result of a car accident, a heart attack, many other...
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Maintaining a Positive Attitude
Maintaining a positive attitude is not always easy, and it is likely not always possible. Happiness, like sadness, is a basic human emotion present in everyday life. Seeking to eliminate sadness...
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What Are the Functions of Setting Goals?
To achieve happiness, set goals. A lack of goals leads to aimlessness, frustration, and depression. Stephen R. Covey, author of the best-selling book, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," lists...
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How to Create Your Own Online Diary
Creating and keeping a diary is something many people want to do, but rarely get around to doing. Keeping a diary by hand is time-consuming and it can be difficult to share particular entries with...
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The Effect Pets Have on Your Health
Owning a pet can add more than happiness to your life--it can also improve your mental and physical health. Numerous studies over the past decade have demonstrated that owning a pet can make a person...
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How to Get Social Skills With People
Whether you suffer from a disability such as ADHD or just shyness, feeling as if you lack the social skills needed to excel in today’s world can be a heavy burden. A lack of social skills may cause you...
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How to Calm Your Nerves
There's little argument that to stay healthy and happy, you must eliminate undue stress and calm your nerves. Those who are "on edge" rarely have positive relationships, as stress almost always has a...
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