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Acupuncture is among the oldest healing practices in the world. As part of traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture aims to restore and maintain health through the stimulation of specific points on the body. In the United States, where practitioners incorporate healing traditions from China, Japan, Korea, and other countries, acupuncture is considered part of complementary and alternative medicine.

Excerpted from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Publication Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), 2012. What is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder? Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common childhood brain disorders and can continue through adolescence and adulthood. Symptoms include difficulty staying focused and paying attention, difficulty controlling behavior, and hyperactivity (over-activity).

Few people have heard of frontotemporal dementia and other brain disorders that affect personality, behavior, language, and movement. These disorders are little known outside the circles of researchers, doctors, patients, and caregivers who study and live with them.

Excerpted from the National Center for Complementary &Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) Publication Herbs at a glance: A quick guide to herbal substances, 2010. In the United States, nearly 1 in 5 adults-or over 38 million people-reported using a natural product, such as herbs, for health purposes in a 2007 survey.

What is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder? Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common childhood brain disorders and can continue through adolescence and adulthood. Symptoms include difficulty staying focused and paying attention, difficulty controlling behavior, and hyperactivity (over-activity).

Entering into dual relationships with psychotherapy patients has been a topic of significant controversy in professional psychology. Although these types of extra-therapeutic alliances have generally been considered to be unethical conduct, some authors recently have supported their development as both ethical and, in some cases, even therapeutic.

What is bipolar disorder? All parents can relate to the many changes their kids go through as they grow up. But sometimes it's hard to tell if a child is just going through a "phase," or showing signs of something more serious.

Excerpted from the CE Course The Challenge of Co-Parenting, Lisa M. Schab, MSW, LCSW, © Professional Development Resources, 2006. Parents who have chosen not to remain together as a couple are still responsible for the healthy upbringing of their mutual children.

Despite the call for today's adolescents to achieve higher levels of literacy than previous generations, approximately 8.7 million fourth through twelfth grade students struggle with the reading and writing tasks that are required of them in school. For many adolescent students, ongoing difficulties with reading and writing figure prominently in the decision to drop out of school.

Domestic violence, in the form of child abuse and intimate partner violence, remains a pervasive part of contemporary life in the U.S. Its effects are deep and far-reaching. As noted throughout the course, it crosses all social and cultural boundaries, including demographic, socioeconomic, and religious strata.

Excerpted from the CE Course English Language Learning, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and Professional Development Resources, 2007. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has tracked the achievement of Hispanic students since 1975. Although many English learners are in the Hispanic designation, English learners as a group have only recently been disaggregated in the NAEP analyses.

Complaints like these are so common among parents that one might conclude that not listening is the norm - rather than the exception - among children. In fact, failure to listen is a common occurrence among all children at least some of the time.

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Excerpted from the CE Course Ethics and Social Media, Leo Christie, PhD and Professional Development Resources, 2009. Whether we were trained in this century or one of the centuries past, we therapists find ourselves - for better or for worse -practicing in a digital world.

Children in the United States are more likely to be exposed to violence and crime than are adults. Children are exposed to violence every day in their homes, schools, and communities. They may be struck by a boyfriend, bullied by a classmate, or abused by an adult.