The person I have chosen to use for this research assignment is a gentleman I will refer to as Randall. He is a 31 year old man with what has been diagnosed as both a General Anxiety Disorder and agoraphobia. Randall’s condition is one that stems from a moment of extreme anxiety in his early twenties‚ and has worsened over the last decade into the agoraphobic behaviors of having a generalized discomfort or inability to leave the house. In short‚ Randall cannot be somewhere that does not come with
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It is important when working with clients that consideration is given to the methods and approaches used with regards to specific client’s needs and personality as well as consideration regarding presenting issues. Here a case study of Jane is used to argue /evaluate and assess how both a psychodynamic counselor and cognitive behavioral therapist (CBT) would view the case study of Jane from their perspectives. Consideration will be given from both a psychodynamic approach and CBT approach of how
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Discuss the relationship between stress‚ anxiety‚ habits and phobias and describe how you would treat these issues with hypnotherapy. In order to understand the relationship between stress‚ anxiety‚ habits and phobias‚ it is necessary to first define what each one is and how it affects us. Stress is a condition that most of us have experienced throughout our lives and in the main it is a positive emotion and it can help us to become motivated reaching our potential positively and productively
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disorder‚ is a pattern of behavioral or psychological symptoms that impact multiple life areas and/or create distress for the person experiencing these symptoms. Anxiety Disorders Types of anxiety disorders include: • Generalized anxiety disorder • Agoraphobia • Social anxiety disorder • Phobias • Panic disorder • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Separation anxiety General anxiety disorder • Some anxiety and worry is normal. These normal amounts of anxiety can actually help you respond to threats and
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specific thing‚ such as spiders or being in a closed place. Most simple phobias develop during childhood and eventually disappear. Specific phobia is a marked fear of a specific object or situation. It is a category for any phobias other than agoraphobia and social phobia. The categories of specific phobias are 1. situational phobias such as: fear of elevators‚ airplanes‚ enclosed places‚ public transportation‚ tunnels‚ or bridges; 2. fear of the natural environment such as: storms‚ water‚ or heights;
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usually determine how much it affects a persons functioning. Although‚ anyone can develop a phobic disorder‚ it is found more commonly in women than in men. Phobic disorders are broken up into three categories; simple phobias‚ social phobias‚ and agoraphobia. 1 McGowan 2 Simple phobias are an inappropriately intense reaction triggered by a single stimulus. Almost everyone has met someone with one of these phobias; they range from being afraid of closed spaces (claustrophobia) to being afraid
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PSYCHOLOGY 305 – EXAM 2 – STUDY GUIDE WINTER 2013 Models for stress: Know what each model says about stress (e.g.‚ Cannon’s‚ Selye’s‚ etc.) Stress & the Immune system – Acute vs. prolonged stress & illness; Physiology of stress & immune system functioning -SAM System- Sympathetic adrenomedullary system. Results in release of catecholamines. -HPA System- Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenocortical system. Results in release of corticosteroids-cortisol. Chronically elecated levels-compromises
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Family therapy 2. That child was a bad actor; he had a serious behavior disorder. It wasn’t difficult to understand how he got that way after I had a few sessions with his parents and siblings. behavioral 3. She has the worst case of agoraphobia I’ve ever seen. A peer counselor is stopping by everyday to work with her. It took a week to get her out the front door‚ and more than a week to get her off the porch. They’re working on walking out
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People who have been victimized often have stress symptoms that linger. A common form of victimization in our society today is sexual assault. The psychological impact of sexual assault on a victim is immediate and may last a long time (Comer‚ 2015). One study found that 94 percent of rape victims qualified for a clinical diagnosis of acute stress disorder when they were observed around 12 days after the assault (Rothbaum et al.‚ 1992). Although some sexual assault victims improve psychologically
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therapeutic treatments in order to reduce the symptoms of the patients’ disorder. If the patient shows signs of a normal behavior‚ then the patients is released back into the real world. Daisy was diagnosed in having a binge-eating disorder and agoraphobia. An agoraphobia‚ according to reports‚ is “a fear of being outside or otherwise being in a situation from which one either cannot escape or from which escaping would be difficult or humiliating”(1). In the film‚ she always locked herself in her room‚ with
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