Treatment Methods Assignment According to Morris and Maisto (2002), the goal of insight therapy is “…to give people a better awareness and understanding of their feelings, motivations, and actions, in the hope that this will lead to better adjustment (p.527). The three major insight therapies are psychoanalysis, client-centered therapy, and Gestalt therapy. Psychoanalysis allows a person to express his or her thoughts using free association. During this process, the analyst remains quiet and out
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Kocovski, levels of state anxiety are dependent upon both the person (trait anxiety) and the stressful situation. The situation must be harmonious with the dimension of trait anxiety in order to evoke increase in state anxiety (Endler & Kocovski, 2001). Spielberger developed State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) in order to assess two types of anxiety. Its development started in 1964 and items on scale were administered along with widely used anxiety scales and Anxiety Scale Questionnaire to a large
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and is diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). OCD is an anxiety disorder that is characterized by unreasonable thoughts and fears that lead a person into repetitive behaviors. It has two parts: obsessive and compulsive. The obsessive portion relates to a person’s repetitive thoughts and emotions. The compulsive part concerns the person’s inability to resist the repetitive actions. Trying to ignore or stop these thoughts only create more anxiety and stress. (Neighbors, 2015, Chapter 21)
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Psychotherapy Matrix |Therapy Approach |Techniques Used |Disorders Appropriate for This Therapy | |Psychodynamic Therapy (Therapy |Interpretation: explanation of unconscious |Disorder that deals with general feelings of | |that focuses on bringing |motivations. |unhappiness and unresolved conflicts from | |unconscious conflicts and |Analysis of dreams:
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Modeling is especially successful in reducing fear and anxiety. Typically, the maintaining conditions of fears and anxieties are expectations of negative consequences and lacking appropriate skill (Spiegler, 2010). One way that modeling addresses these maintaining conditions is through vicarious extinction. Vicarious extinction is when an observer witnesses a model execute the behavior that is feared by the observer without any negative consequences. When a coping model is used in vicarious extinction
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Types of phobias pg 3 Symptoms of phobias pg 5 Coping with phobias pg 5 Bibliography pg 7 What is a phobia? The word “Phobia” comes from the Greek “phobos” meaning fear. But it is not an ordinary type of fear. A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder. It is a strong, irrational, fear of something that possess little or no actual danger. In many cases it is usually limited to one particular thing such as the fear of heights or lifts, of enclosed or open spaces, of travelling by plane, of
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Andrea Tone in Birth Control and Anxiety 1. A) What was the primary concern of American manufacturers in producing feminine "hygiene" products, and what was their overall impact on the health of American women? Manufactures sold a wide array of items, including vaginal jellies, douche powders and liquid, suppositories, and foaming tablets as “feminine hygiene,” an innocuous sounding term coined by advertisers in the 1920s. Publicly, manufactures claimed that feminine hygiene products were sold
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Mental Illness: General Anxiety Disorder Kirsten Wolf HCA/240 November 22, 2015 Toni Parolisi Mental Illness: General Anxiety Disorder Generalized anxiety disorder, also known as GAD, affects 5% of Americans in their lifetime, which is about 18% of American Adults per year. Someone who has GAD, has a chemical imbalance in their brain. The chemicals that are in our brain are called neurotransmitters. These neurotransmitters are what communicate information throughout our brain and bodies.
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What is panic disorder? Panic disorder falls under the umbrella of Anxiety Disorders. Anxiety disorders, such as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Post Traumatic Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder are all fairly common. These disorders as a group are thought to affect up about 18% of adult in the United States and about 20% of adults worldwide. Panic Disorder is a condition that affects 2-3% of Americans, and it is twice as common in women than men. It is primarily characterized
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Anxiety is a term for more than several disorders, such as fear, apprehension, nervousness coupled with constant worrying, neuroticism so to speak. Experts consider these disorders severe to say the least because it interferes with a person’s ability to sleep, affects how a person may feel, behave, as well as a host of physiological problems, which are directly related to stress, and other mental issues. Anxiety varies from person to person ranging from anxiety over every day events and panic disorders
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