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times people relapsed after going however so long without using. According to
Whitfield, "Most of their relapses usually turned out to be due to a low participation in a recovery program, or to their unhealed painful effects of trauma—or both." Quitting from drugs or alcohol was only the first stages of healing for many patients. Whitfield figured out that allowing patients to express their traumas and childhoods lead to better healing as it allowed them let go of the toxicity that makes them want to use drugs or alcohol. There are three stages of recovery according to Whitfield, the first is for basic illness and lasts some month to 3+ years. The next stage focuses on trauma, it lasts about 3-5+ years. The last stage focuses on spirituality, and can go on for however long. Whitfield shared his approach with others who handled similar situations and they also noticed patients getting better. Along with using each of these stages on patients, Whitfield also allowed patients to be part of their own treatment plan. Instead of having somebody write out a plan that the patient may or may not follow, Whitfield had patients write out their own recovery plan through a sort of template provided by him. Doing so allows the patient to feel more involved and gives them motivation to stick with it. Spirituality is a key factor in recovery and is used throughout all stages. Many patients had a hard time finding that spirituality but eventually would, and the reason for them finding it was that the patient finally knew their real self.
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school, and 7% of participants had not graduated high school. The adverse childhood experiences that were being asked about were described as emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, a battered mother, household substance abuse, mental illness in household, parental separation or divorce, and an incarcerated household member. When these participants were answering these questions, they had to answer them by the conflict tactics scale (CTS). The response categories concluded "never", "once or twice", "sometimes", "often", and "very often". Emotional, physical, and sexual abuse were defined by CTS questions along with the questions about having a battered mother. The rest were answered by yes or no. In the result of this ACE study, women had the higher adverse childhood experiences scores than men in every category except physical abuse. Yet, when it came to being asked if the participants had any issues with substance abuse, men had a higher rate of using substance abuse. Same thing with those who have had adverse childhood experiences and have had a history of hallucinations. Men have had a higher rate than women despite only having a higher percentage with only one ACE category.
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experiences and to determine if this impacts health behaviors and outcomes and health care utilization. The study was then approved by Kaiser
Permanente's institutional review board, along with Emory University, the National Institutes of Health, and the Office of Protection from Research Risks. The pool of people selected for this study was chosen from the HAC. Those that were chosen were then evaluated at the HAC and had to complete a questionnaire, which included detailed health history, health-related behaviors, psychosocial evaluations, and medical reviews. Two weeks after taking the questionnaire at HAC, the people involved in their study were mailed home an ACE study questionnaire. The ACE study questionnaire was used to ask those involved about their adverse childhood experiences in detail, family and household dysfunction, and their health-related behaviors from their adolescence to their adult life.
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experiences (ACEs) are interrelated, study examined the association between the number of such experiences as a particular (ACE) score and the risk of depressive disorders. Notably, women related childhood abuse recorded to be 2.7 and 3.1 times embraces a lifetime history of depressive disorders or recent depressive disorders. Adverse childhood experiences have a strong, relationship to risk of lifetime and current depressive disorders which to an extent implements child's adulthood which creates a negative impact on their growing age. This recent study mainly states that the most increasing number of childhood abuse cases are most likely to be found with divorced parents or parents consuming heavy drugs or mainly 'heads of the household' are drug addicts.
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histories of hallucinations. This study has helped doctors and other medical professionals become better at treating each patient and personalizing the treatments as well as making sure it is the most effective to each patient. By personalizing medical treatments for each individual, it helps each individual not only get better mentally, but physically as well.
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Whitfield took his time when healing his patients. During the years of 1973 through 1985, Whitfield studied his patients and their lives after they went through the recovery and healing programs provided to them. He noticed how effective it was for patients to get help early on as well as how many
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