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Articles from the Charis Psychological Services team on therapy, trauma, rehabilitation and mental health topics.
Workplaces that work: From Stress to Strength
Workplace stress costs the South African economy R161 billion annually. Here's what employee wellness actually is — and isn't — and how organisations can move beyond superficial perks.
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A Psychologist's Role in Hospital Spaces
Hospitals are sacred spaces. They are places where life begins, changes, and sometimes ends — and it is here that psychologists play a powerful, often unseen, role.
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Managing pain through your brain: CBT Techniques for chronic pain
Chronic pain is more than a physical difficulty — it affects emotions, behaviours and mind. Five CBT techniques that help patients move from passive sufferers of pain to active participants in recovery.
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The emotional and psychological wellbeing of traditional healers
Traditional healers play a central role in African cultures and ways of living — but their own psychological and emotional functioning is rarely studied. It's time we looked after their wellbeing too.
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Phantom limb Pains
Phantom limb pains occur post amputation, where patients experience sensations in a limb that no longer exists. The pain is real — it's the body's way of adjusting to the change.
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Exciting News with the management of spasms
New research points to two possible treatments to reduce the excitability of the spinal cord — offering hope of new options to augment current pharmacological interventions.
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The Importance of Psychological Intervention as an Inpatient in Medical Rehabilitation
The role of the psychologist is to ensure a sense of mental wellbeing to enhance functional performance, so patients can function to their optimal physical, emotional and social potential.
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CBT in a nutshell
CBT is based on the premise that your thoughts, feelings and behaviours are interconnected — challenge the maladaptive thoughts, and you can break the cycle.
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National Child Protection Week
Childhood sets the blueprint for how we manage and engage with the challenges of later life. Children seldom have the words to express emotional challenges, and often manifest these through behaviour.
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Using Maths to Display the Importance of Psychotherapy In a Rehabilitation context
1 + 2 = 5? A simple sum illustrates how the therapeutic relationship becomes the missing piece that turns a difficult equation into a workable one.
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Sexuality and Spinal Cord Injuries
There is sometimes a belief that people with spinal cord injuries are unable to have sex and therefore doomed to relationships lacking in intimacy. This is a myth.
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Environment and Disability
Environmental Psychology explores the dynamic relationship between our environment and our mental health — and the growing case for making natural spaces more accessible.
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Partner vs Caregiver
Be mindful of the fact that many people can fill the role of caregiver, but what you offer as a partner is unique. Do not become your partner's caregiver first — be his or her partner first.
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Spiritual bypassing of Trauma
When faced with trauma, many of us turn to faith to help us cope — but spirituality can also become a way of avoiding, rather than processing, genuine emotional pain.
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Relationships in Lockdown
In periods of feeling disconnected, intimacy and sex are often the first things to go. Some tools to help get a relationship back on track during times of overwhelm.
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World Aids Day
It is still believed that the sooner you start treatment the better the prognosis. Receiving a chronic health condition diagnosis can leave one feeling alone — but that is not the reality.
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World Diabetes Day
It is thought that through changing your relationship with the condition, you would be able to take control back of your life, and experience greater levels of subjective happiness.
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Having a child after a Spinal Cord Injury
Should a spinal cord injury stop you from having children? The concept of the “good enough parent” offers relief from an idealised, unrealistic image of parenting.
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The Meaning Behind The Rising Phoenix
The Paralympics and the documentary Rising Phoenix: on the power of sport as a human right, and its impact on how society perceives disability.
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