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Vaginismus : Treatments

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Treatment involves extensive therapy that combines education, counseling, and behavioral exercises. Such exercises include pelvic floor muscle contraction and relaxation (Kegel exercises).
Source:ADAM
Date:August 12, 2008
There are many different treatments of vaginismus, as there is a multitude of ways to treat most sexual disorders. Therapists can use behavioral, hypnotic, psychological, educational, or group therapy techniques.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Sex therapy is the treatment of sexual dysfunction.Sex therapy utilizes various techniques in order to relieve sexual dysfunction commonly caused by premature ejaculation or sexual anxiety and to improve the sexual health of the patient.Sexual dys...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Behavioral therapy, or behavioral modification, is a psychological technique based on the premise that specific, observable, maladaptive, badly adjusted, or self-destructing behaviors can be modified by learning new, more appropriate behaviors to ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
The box-like structure and people''s misunderstandings about behavioral psychology contributed to the misconception that Skinner was experimenting on his daughter and also probably prevented the crib from becoming a commercial success. People got t...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Behavior modification is a treatment approach, based on the principles of operant conditioning, that replaces undesirable behaviors with more desirable ones through positive or negative reinforcement.Behavior modification is used to treat a variet...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Behavior therapy was developed during the 1950s by researchers and therapists critical of the psychodynamic.treatment methods that prevailed at the time. It drew on a variety of theoretical work, including the classical conditioning principles of ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Women who experience urinary incontinence may be able to alleviate the problem by performing pelvic floor exercises, known as Kegels.
Source:StayWell
Kegel exercises(Kegels) are exercises designed to strengthen the muscles of the lower pelvic girdle, or pelvic floor—the pubococcygeal(PC) muscles. The PC muscles support the bladder, urethra, and urethral sphincter—the muscle group at...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Kegel exercises are a series of pelvic muscle exercises designed to strengthen the muscles of the pelvic floor.Pelvic muscle strengthening exercises; Pelvic floor exercises.Dr. Arnold Kegel developed Kegel exercises in 1948 as a method of controll...
Source:ADAM
Date:April 24, 2008
Incontinence is surprisingly common. Surgery, medications, childbirth, or injury can interfere with urinary and rectal function. But there are a variety of treatments available including exercise programs, medications and surgery.
Source:StayWell
A significant portion of therapy clients are couples, and there are several different therapeutic approaches to meet their treatment needs.
Source:StayWell
Couples therapy is a form of psychological therapy used to treat relationship distress for both individuals and couples.The purpose of couples therapy is to restore a better level of functioning in couples who experience relationship distress. The...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
The treatment of mental or emotional disorders and adjustment problems through the use of psychological techniques rather than through physical or biological means.Psychoanalysis, the first modern form of psychotherapy, was called the"talking cure...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Psychotherapy can be defined as a means of treating such psychological or emotional problems as neurosis or personality disorder through verbal and nonverbal communication. It is the treatment of psychological distress through talking with a speci...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Psychotherapy can be defined as a means of treating psychological or emotional problems such as neurosis or personality disorder through verbal and nonverbal communication. It is the treatment of psychological distress through talking with a speci...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Contrary to what many people believe, psychotherapy for anxiety, depression, phobias or stress doesn't have to be a long and costly process. Feeling better doesn't require a lifetime of intensive psychotherapy.
Source:StayWell
Psychotherapy integration is defined as an approach to psychotherapy that includes a variety of attempts to look beyond the confines of single-school approaches in order to see what can be learned from other perspectives. It is characterized by an...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
The treatment of mental or emotional disorders and adjustment problems through the use of psychological techniques rather than through physical or biological means.Psychoanalysis, the first modern form of psychotherapy, was called the"talking cure...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
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