...Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is commonly defined as “persistent fear of one or more social or performance situations in which the person is exposed to unfamiliar people or to possible scrutiny by others” (“Social Anxiety Disorder”). It is an expanding public health concern in the United States due to its debilitating characteristics that have largely affected the population. According to author Falk Leichsenring et al., “Social Anxiety Disorder is one of the most prevalent mental disorders, with a lifetime prevalence of 12% and a 12-month prevalence of 7%” (1074). Research has shown that excessive use of social media, environmental factors, and are key causes of SAD. To begin with, in today’s day and age, technology has become highly advanced...
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...This text was posted on a Reddit forum, and the category was social anxiety. The author is clearly asking for help. This is a good example because it is an experience written in non-academic writing. So, I predict that it will include slang words, and other elements related to non-academic writing. In the non-academic writing the author uses contradictions such as "didn't". He also uses slang such as "WHAT THE HELL??". Notice the two interrogations marks at the end. This is a popular way to show strong emotions in non-academic writing. You might also notice that the words are in capital letters this is also a popular way to show strong emotions in non-academic writing. "Not one person in the line was talking, and this random ass dude just laughs"....
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...Introduction: The purpose of this assignment is to critically discuss the literature on groupwork, and its relevance in occupational therapy with children. I will discuss some of the current literature surrounding groupwork and the merits of its use in occupational therapy. I will then analyse and discuss some of the factors in groupwork which influence the outcomes and effectiveness of the group including the group composition, the establishment of long-term and short-term goals, and the therapist’s style of leading the group. I will apply these factors to a specific condition for the purpose of demonstration. Finally, I will reflect on my learning of groupwork and how it will influence my future practice. Groupwork theory and use in therapy: Groups are defined by Mosey(1973) as ‘an aggregate of people who share a common purpose which can be attained only by group members interacting and working together’( as cited in Finlay, 2001, p.3). Acording to Blair(1990, as cited in Finlay, 2001) groups are ‘intrinsic to existence’. We are involved in family groups, classroom, peer, sport, work tasks and other groups. Group work is an approach that is widely used across occupational therapy and healthcare settings. ‘Only in more recent times have group practitioners and researchers begun to explore the use of group activities as a therapeutic approach’(Barnes, Howe & Schwartzbeg, 2008). This is in line with the renewed focus on occupation-based, client-based and evidence based...
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...An Experiment on Public Speaking Anxiety in Response to Three Different Types of Virtual Audience David-Paul Pertaub*, Mel Slater*, Chris Barker** *Department of Computer Science **Department of Psychology University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT 2 An Experiment on Public Speaking Anxiety in Response to Three Different Types of Virtual Audience Abstract This paper describes an experiment to assess the anxiety responses of people giving five minute presentations to virtual audiences consisting of eight male avatars. There were three different types of audience behaviour -an emotionally neutral audience that remained static throughout the talk, a positive audience which exhibited friendly and appreciative behaviour towards the speaker, and a negative audience, which exhibited hostile and bored expressions throughout the talk. A second factor was immersion: half of the 40 subjects experienced the virtual seminar room through a head-tracked head-mounted display and the remainder on a desktop system. Responses were measured using standard Personal Report of Confidence as a Public Speaker (PRCS) which was elicited prior to the experiment and after each talk. Several other standard psychological measures such as SCL-90-R (for screening for psychological disorder), the SAD and the FNE were also measured prior to the experiment. Other response variables included subjectively assessed somaticisation and a subject self-rating scale on performance...
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...trying to figure out the rest of your life. Most of us bounce back. But frequent, intense, and uncontrollable anxiety that interferes with your daily routines may be a sign of an anxiety disorder. Causes? Schoolwork, they all replied. Money. Relationships. The more they thought about what they had to do, the students said, the more paralyzed they became.Anxiety has now surpassed depression as the most common mental health diagnosis among college students, though depression, too, is on the rise. More than half of students visiting campus clinics cite anxiety as a health concern, according to a recent study of more than 100,000 students nationwide by the Center for Collegiate Mental Health at Penn State. Nearly one in six college students has been diagnosed with or treated for anxiety within the last 12 months, according to the annual national survey by the American College Health Association.The causes range widely, experts say, from mounting academic pressure at earlier ages to overprotective parents to compulsive engagement with social media. Anxiety has always played a role in the developmental drama of a student’s life, but now more students experience anxiety so intense and overwhelming that they are seeking professional counseling. As students finish a college year during which these cases continued to spike, the consensus among therapists is that treating anxiety has become an enormous challenge for campus mental health centers.Like many college clinics, the Center for Counseling...
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...THE KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE OF SOCIAL PHOBIA AMONG THE ADOLESCENT IN SELECTED COLLEGE AT TUMKUR WITH A VIEW TO DEVELOP A HEALTH EDUCATION MODULE .” PERFORMA FOR REGISTRATION OF SUBJECT FOR DESERTATION MR.PRAVIN RAMESH GHOLAP. PSYCHIARIC NURSING ARUNA COLLEGE OF NURSING RING ROAD, TUMKUR 2009-2010 RAJIV GANDHI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES, BANGALORE, KARNATAKA. PROFORMA FOR REGISTRATION OF SUBJECTS FOR DISSERTATION 1.NAME OF THE CANDIDATE: MR. PRAVIN RAMESH GHOLAP. AND ADDRESS ARUNA COLLEGE OF NURSING RING ROAD, MARALUR TUMKUR-572105 2. NAME OF THE INSTITUTION: ARUNA COLLEGE OF NURSING RING ROAD, MARALUR TUMKUR-572105 KARNATAKA 3. COURSE OF STUDY : 1 YEAR M.Sc. NURSING AND SUBJECT PSYCHIATRIC NURSING 4. DATE OF ADMISSION : 10.06.2009. TO COURSE 5. TITLE OF THE TOPIC : “A STUDY TO ASSESS THE KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE OF SOCIAL PHOBIA AMONG THE ...
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...According to Abnormal psychology (14th ed.) the definition of Social Phobia is “the fear of situations in which a person might be exposed to the scrutiny of others and fear of acting in a humiliating or embarrassing way”. Social Phobia is one of the most common individual DSM-IV Disorders (Butcher). Although social phobia does not usually manifest itself until the teenage years or early adulthood, it can be brought on by many different factors in early childhood, like being bullied or based on genetic or learned behaviors from parents. They are also some different variation of social phobia; there is generalized social phobia, social phobia with agoraphobia, social phobia with or without panic attacks and also Japanese disorders similar to it called Taijin kyofusho. All these variations of social phobia come with different effects on people and caused by different factors. Social Phobia causes people to worry that other people are looking at you and noticing what you are doing, dislike being introduced to other people, find it hard to go into shops or restaurants, worry about eating or drinking in public, feel embarrassed about undressing in public, so you can't face going to the beach, can't be assertive with other people, even when you know you need to. Although these traits can simply just characterizes shyness in people. There are different degrees and other factors that make it more than shyness, social phobia can occur in different degrees and when combined with other...
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...repulsive automation he lodged had developed consciousness of its own”. Pnin has also kept track of and noted down the date of all those time he got the same anxious feeling and he's very specific about it. He seem like a very fidgety and a nervous person as a whole. The narrators of this story sounds like he is also in the same state of mind as Pnin's because of the way he ponders about life, death and the world. Pnin seems very confused, lost and very easy to manipulate and also naive. He seem terrified on many occasions through out this excerpt. His character is very endearing while the narrator explains Pnin's mannerism in a rather harsh manner. If people look at Pnin as an outsider, they will come up with a conclusion that he has an Anxiety disorder because of the way he behaves. He is frantic, terrified, nervous,...
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...Essay Title – Using the case study provided at the end of the module identify and explain the client’s issues and devise a course of treatment for him, taking in to account any ethical issues. Word count – 2422 Introduction This assignment is based on a case-study of Mr X who attended an initial consultation presenting with several concerns and issues. Most of the client’s self-referred problems appear based on his perception of the world, people around him and his relationship with these, probably related to low self-esteem. I shall explore the issues presented by the client and base them on a theoretical framework. The client reveals many strengths in his life and character, which I shall highlight, and will serve as basis for a positive formulation into his needs. I will also explore appropriate therapeutic approaches for this client and suggest a course of action based in theory and clinical applications. Client initial presentation During the initial consultation it was evident that Mr X was looking for some change into his life. He disclosed a deep wish to move on but he also felt that he was being held back by his insecurities and fears. The main issues highlighted by Mr X were :- Wanting to apply for the job promotion, feeling he is able to do the job but insecure of applying for it; Feeling that his work colleagues find him boring, because he does not go out with them for a drink; Desire to improve his ‘relationship’ with his work colleagues, by proposing another...
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...powerless to do anything to change their responses. I learned to use this in my everyday life when it comes to FEAR which I came up with False Evidence Appearing Real which I love using and letting others know what the meaning means to me. Therefore, the feared situation – such as presentations, speeches, and meetings are avoided or else endured with intense anxiety or distress. In Bill’s situation, he suffers from intense fear of intense fear of public speaking and finds new ways of avoiding situations that involve speaking in front of audience, until his recent promotion at work. Two helpful techniques to reduce nervousness I would do is take a deep breath which is a powerful anxiety-reducing technique because it activates the body’s relaxation response. Last I would question my thoughts because when your anxious, your brains start coming up with all sorts of outlandish ideas, many of which are highly unrealistic. Anxiety is interesting, because it tends to get worse when you try to fight it. It's not clear why that occurs, but most likely the stress that your body goes through in order to control the stress of anxiety only makes it worse, as does the effort it takes to try to not feel your natural...
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...------------------------------------------------- Workshop Two BIBLICAL WISDOM Proverbs 15:1 (NIV) “A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.” Mark 11:25 (NIV) “And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins." Bobby Knight, the former coach of Indiana University’s basketball team, had an angry outburst and assaulted one of his players. The university sent him to “anger management” treatment. He subsequently had another major angry outburst and was fired—despite having been one of the most successful college basketball coaches in history! The correct way to stop the whistling teakettle is to turn off the burner. Likewise, the answer to ending angry outbursts is to find the root cause of the anger, and then “turn it off.” Forgiveness will turn off the burner. WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES By the completion of this workshop, the student will be able to: * Evaluate scenarios in which listening has been compromised. * Examine conflict management in the workplace. * Describe barriers of effective listening. * Compare ambiguous and specific language. * Investigate the use of praise and criticism in the workplace. * Create slides using a professional design selected in PowerPoint. ------------------------------------------------- Workshop Two Assignments The following assignments will be submitted prior to Workshop Two. Individual...
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...a. Tharah Somas is a 16, year old. She was diagnosed with Social Anxiety Disorder. She has been experiencing high feelings of stress when she is surrounded by other people. Due to her lack of sociableness. This has always been a problem but increased ever since she took AP Biology. Even the thought of being around people or going to events makes her break out in hives and prompts her to cancel. After she started getting sick when her mom would invite people over she knew it was time to seek help for her problem. Since then she has started seeing doctor Mount and quit her AP Biology class. b. Baley Hryant is a 16, year old. She was diagnosed with Hypochondriasis. She first started showing symptoms after she got a stomach bug. She had a stomach bug for a few weeks so she missed quite a bit of school. After this she started assuming that everything was wrong with her. If she would get the slightest headache she would go home from school. Then she started not coming to school at all fearing that her life would be taken by the germs that the kids bring into the school. She decided to seek help after she shaved her head because she thought that she had cancer and thought this was going to be inevitable. She has been seeing Dr. Gabbard for 6 months and is continuing school...
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...Mental health concern | Symptoms | Causes | Treatment | Services available | Shyness | Symptoms for shyness could be:- Few friends- Reduced participation in activities- Feeling of loneliness, unimportance- Reduced self- esteem- High anxiety levels- Physical affects such as; blushing, stammering and trembling | -Genetics: personality traits can be decided by the inherited genetic make up-Personality: babies that are more sensitive and easily intimidated can grow up to be a shy child.-Learned behavior: children learning by intimidating their role models eg mum and dad. Shy parents may teach child to be shy.-Family relationships: children experiencing inconsistent care giving and don’t spend much time with their parents, may feel anxious and prone to shy behavior. However on the other hand, it parents are over protective, this can cause their to feel inhibited and afraid of new environments.-Lack of social interaction: if children are isolated from others for their first few years of living, this reduces their chance of having good social skills.-Harsh criticism: Children that have been bullied by their parent, sibling etc. may cause them to feel shy.-Fear of failure: Children who have been pushed to do well to many times may be fearful of failing, which can cause feeling of shyness. | There are ways in which you can help a child who has shyness characteristics.- Labeling a child as shy should be minimized as children a lot of the time live up to their labels people have placed...
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...Nothing will relax you more than to know you have properly prepared. The stage fright or speech anxiety felt by many speakers is due to not knowing enough about the speaking environment or the audience. The more you know about your speaking environment and your audience, the more relaxed you will be when delivering your speech. Many speakers, however, often overlook the need to include any kind of audience analysis as part of their speech preparation. Proper audience analysis will assure that you give the right speech to the right audience. Most professional speakers send their clients a multi-page questionnaire in order to gather enough information about them and the speaking event to properly customize their speeches. Using the word "A-U-D-I-E-N-C-E" as an acronym, I have defined some general audience analysis categories that these surveys should include. A nalysis - Who are they? How many will be there? U nderstanding - What is their knowledge of the subject? D emographics - What is their age, sex, educational background? I nterest - Why are they there? Who asked them to be there? E nvironment - Where will I stand? Can they all see & hear me? N eeds - What are their needs? What are your needs as the speaker? C ustomized - What specific needs do you need to address? E xpectations - What do they expect to learn or hear from you? Develop specific questions which fit into each of these eight categories and ask the client or audience to tell you what they...
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...Stage Fright I have this fear. It causes my legs to shake. I break out in a cold sweat. I start jabbering to anyone who is nearby. As thoughts of certain death run through my mind, the world appears a precious, treasured place. I imagine my own funeral, and then shrink back at the implications of where my thoughts are taking me. My stomach feels strange. My palms are clammy. I was in the ninth grade in October 2004 in India. That was my new school. People were unknown and teachers were new to me. Moreover, I was a shy girl. My teacher selected me for the speech. It was a competition. My topic was “Family v/s Career.” So many things there in my mind were scaring. First thing was, “what am I going to say?” Second think was, “how will I speak in front of that huge audience?” Last think was, “everyone will make a fun of me.” I had two weeks to prepare. My mom and my instructor helped me with preparing my speech. The day of completion came. The completion was in the school’s private auditorium. I waited tensely behind the stage curtain, reciting my lines as if my life depended on it, whom was I kidding? My life did depend on it. If I failed here then all of my dignity would shatter like a bullet on glass. There was one, rather insignificant consolation, the blatant expressions on the other kids' faces portrayed that they were just as apprehensive as I was. My eyes were glued to my script as if magnetically attracted to it. I desperately tried to focus, but it was futile...
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