PSYC 460 Forum Week 2 Achievement Motivation PSYC 460 Forum Week 3 Do you tend to be an individual that struggles with stress and anxiety? If not, explain your general arousal personality. What are possible factors that influence your arousal, stress, and anxiety status before an event? What are strategies that you can apply to reduce stress and anxiety and maintain appropriate arousal levels? PSYC 460 Forum Week 4 Ways to enhance social support Ways to increase proximity Ways to increase
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that they perceive as dangerous or threatening to their well-being. The word stress means different things to different people. Some people define stress as events or situations that cause them to feel tension, pressure, or negative emotions such as anxiety and anger. Others view stress as the response to these situations. This response includes physiological changes-such as increased heart rate and muscle tension-as well as emotional and behavioral changes. However, most psychologists regard stress
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P2 Case Study 1 – Jane has recently been diagnosed with agoraphobia after she was mugged whilst on her way to town. She has been referred to the community mental health team and following an assessment has been referred to the behavioural therapist within the team. She is undergoing systematic desensitisation as a form of treatment for her phobia. The behaviourism approach is applied to this case study. According to the behaviourism approach, Jane would receive systematic desensitization by using
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Overcoming Social Anxiety I could sit here and write about all of my achievements throughout high school and my extracurricular activities but that would not describe what brought me to where I am today. I am proudly the person I am today due to three words, social anxiety disorder. Social anxiety disorder affects 15 million people in the United States currently. I am one of fifteen million. I am more than a statistic, however. I am victim and a survivor. Social anxiety disorder is described as
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), defined by the American Psychiatric Association in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is a mental disorder with “essential features of recurrent obsessions of compulsions that are severe enough to be time consuming or cause marked distress or significant impairment.” Even though this disorder has been mentioned since the seventeenth century many aspects of its origin are still unknown. Affecting around one percent of the United States
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in a healthcare field, he or she will give the one important thing patients look for and need: upmost care physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Physically, Schwartz’s nursing diagnosis could be Disturbed Sleep Pattern related to anxiety and depression as evidenced by Schwartz’s verbal saying, “I began to have trouble sleeping…,” secondary to adenocarcinoma. This is evident by the Schwartz describes the many diagnostic testing that he had to go through in the beginning of the article
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Anxiety disorder is a very prominent issue among psychiatric problems experienced by children today more than most would expect. Some of the immediate and more common deficiencies seen in children dealing with anxiety are directed towards school refusal, failure to develop relationships with new friends, and family conflict (Wood, McLeod, Piacentini, & Sigman, 2009). In addition to those problems it’s been noted in much of the literature that children who suffer from anxiety often develop coinciding
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General Anxiety Disorder | | Liza Ziglar | 10/10/2012 | HCA/240 Facilitator: Gioia Scoppa | Generalized anxiety disorder (or GAD) is characterized by excessive, exaggerated anxiety and worry about everyday life events with no obvious reasons for worry. People with symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder tend to
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victims can suffer an anxiety attack in a high place and become too anxious to get down cautiously. I suffer from a severe degree of acrophobia that prevents me from renting an apartment on any floor other than the ground floor. When I did live on the second floor of an apartment complex, I had to keep my window blinds closed causing my claustrophobia to kick in, which in turn, caused a severe anxiety attack. People with acrophobia may also experience other phobias or types of anxiety. I suffer from several
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Stress and Anxiety on College Students Name: Institution: Date: Table of Contents Introduction 4 Statement of the problem 4 Significance of the study 5 Methodology 5 Literature Review 6 Results and analysis 9 Recommendations 10 Limitations 11 Conclusion 11 References 13 Abstract Academic stress, depression, and anxiety and their coping strategies are critical challenges facing college students. Every government invests heavily in education. Nevertheless, a research survey carried
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