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Mood and anxiety disorders: Mood disorders involve emotional disturbances consisting of long periods of excessive sadness (depression), excessive elation (mania), or both. With anxiety disorders, worry and fear are constant and overwhelming, and can be disabling.
Phobias: An intense fear of a specific object or situation, such as heights or flying. The fear goes beyond what’s appropriate and may cause people to avoid ordinary situations.
Mindfulness and acceptance: The ability to accept negative emotions and thoughts without judging them. Change what you can change, accept what you cannot and know the difference, in order to live manageably and in balance.
Resilience: Flexibility in response to changing situational demands, and the ability to bounce back from negative emotional experiences.
Stress inoculation: Is intended to help people prepare themselves in advance to handle stressful events successfully and with a minimum of upset. The use of the term "inoculation" means preparing people to become resistant to the effects of stressors.
Hypnotherapy: Is an adjunct to other therapies used to create a state of focused attention and increased suggestibility during which rapid diagnosis can be obtained, and positive suggestions and guided imagery are used to help individuals deal with a variety of concerns and invoke developmental change.
Flourishing: Is a state where people experience positive emotions, positive psychological functioning and positive social functioning most of the time, living within an optimal range of human functioning.
Positive Psychology: Is the study of the "good life", or the positive aspects of the human experience that make life worth living. As an art, it focuses on both individual and societal well-being. It is a reaction against past practices, which have focused on "mental illness". It is not to be confused with “positive thinking” associated with performance-related interventions.
Values: Human values and virtues are the cornerstone of an individual’s character and unique to them, providing beliefs, opinions and directing or influencing their behavior.
Character Strengths: https://www.viacharacter.org/
Self-actualization (Individuation. Self-determination): It is the birthright of every individual to find out who they are and lead the life which comes with that discovery.
Flow: Is the metal state in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus and full involvement in the process of the activity. It is characterized by the complete absorption in what one does, and a resulting transformation in one's sense of time.
Organizational Change Management (OCM): Is a collective term for all approaches to prepare, support, and help individuals, teams and organizations to make changes including technological evolution, consumer habit changes, pressure from new business entrants, acquisitions mergers relocations and organizational restructuring.
Humour: The term derives from the humoural medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humours controlled human health and emotion. People of all ages and cultures respond to humour. Most people are able to experience humour—be amused, smile or laugh at something funny (such as a pun or joke)—and thus are considered to have a sense of humour. The hypothetical person lacking a sense of humour would likely find the behaviour inducing it to be inexplicable, strange, or even irrational. Though ultimately decided by personal taste, the extent to which a person finds something humorous depends on a host of variables, including geographical location, culture, maturity, level of education, intelligence and context.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT): It focuses on challenging and changing unhelpful cognitive distortions (e.g. thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes) and behaviours, improving emotional regulation and the development of personal coping strategies that target solving current problems. It is widely researched and a therapy of choice by healthcare providers.
Stress Management: is a wide spectrum of techniques and psychotherapies aimed at controlling a person's level of stress, especially chronic stress, usually for the purpose of improving everyday functioning.
Insured: Continuous Professional Development: Supervision: Professional bodies to which mental healthcare professionals belong including Douglas Bullock Associates Pte Ltd, require them to carry professional indemnity insurance, and for practitioners to undergo additional training yearly and be supervised by an independent senior practitioner, as part of their programme for maintaining and growing professional competence.
Association for Psychotherapists and Counsellors of Singapore (APACS): https://apacs.org.sg/
General Hypnotherapy Register (GHR): https://www.general-hypnotherapy-register.com/
International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA): https://www.ippanetwork.org/