Supportive therapy and diaphragmatic breathing has shown to cause improvement in 56 % of cases, and total cessation of symptoms in an additional 30 % in one study of 54 adolescent patients who were followed up 10 months after initial treatments.
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In a just-completed study, Wilson, working with Timothy Walsh, a psychiatrist at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, found that cognitive-behavioral therapy was more effective than the supportive therapy often used in the treatment of eating disorders and that its effectiveness was aided somewhat by antidepressants.
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TSS workers are often confused with a wrap around which provide many of the same supportive therapies, but a TSS worker has more in depth training and education on working with special needs, where a wraparound works mainly with children that have behavioral issues.
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These supportive therapy techniques include discussions of reality; encouragement to stay alive ( including hospitalization ); psychotropic medicines to relieve overwhelming depressive affect or overwhelming fantasies ( hallucinations and delusions ); and advice about the meanings of things ( to counter abstraction failures ).
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Brandon also said that people beset by negative feelings did better in anti-smoking programs that offered unstructured supportive therapy than in programs that emphasized behavioral and intellectual strategies specifically aimed at stopping smoking, like chewing gum instead of smoking and recalling the health risks of smoking.
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Each was assigned to a group that received personal therapy two to four times a month for three years, or, for comparison, family therapy, personal and family therapy, or supportive therapy in which patients were given the opportunity to talk with a therapist and seek help during crises.
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:: : However, to pique your interest in the science of pharmacology : Yes, there is no specific receptor antagonist to those drugs, so one is left with the supportive therapy ( no article yet, but in principle a more drastic form of symptomatic treatment ) that Nunh-huh describes.
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Some professionals, including Dr . Edgardo J . Menvielle of the Children's National Medical Center, who has specialized in this area in his clinical practice, believe that the proper response to gender variant behavior is supportive therapy aimed at helping the child deal with any social issues which may arise due to homophobia / transphobia.
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Rarely, people with the hepatitis A virus can rapidly develop liver failure, termed " fulminant hepatic failure ", especially the elderly and those who had a pre-existing liver disease, especially hepatitis C . Mortality risk factors include greater age and chronic hepatitis C . In these cases, more aggressive supportive therapy and liver transplant may be necessary.
