09/02/2013 PS2158 ANXIETY DISORDERS II: OCD AND PTSD Nora S Vyas‚ Ph.D. Module Leader n.vyas@kingston.ac.uk Overview By the end of this lecture‚ students will be able to: • Describe the clinical presentation of OCD and PTSD • Describe and evaluate the aetiological factors of these disorders • Describe the main treatment options for OCD and PTSD. 1 09/02/2013 Post-traumatic Stress Disorder • Definition & Prevalence • Symptoms & Diagnosis of PTSD • The aetiology of PTSD • The treatment of
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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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expectations that fear and anxiety is a common reaction. Since there is no attention given to improve these conditions‚ the fear and anxiety increases‚ causing it to blend into poor assignments‚ projects‚ class work‚ and of course testing. The study outlined in this article focused on two aspects. It set out to research the effects of Systematic Desensitization on the reduction of test anxiety on a particular population (Nigerian Secondary School children that were experiencing test anxiety)‚ and also focused
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tress and anxiety are caused by the response we have to challenging situations‚ situations where there is a perceived or real threat to our physical self‚ mental well being or perhaps our environment‚ lifestyle‚ family‚ job etc. Different people experience stress or anxiety for different reasons and deal or fail to deal with increased stress or anxiety levels in different ways. The feeling of stress or anxiety is our bodies reaction to fear or change – flight‚ fight or freeze. We feel stress or
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"The components of anxiety‚ stress‚ habit‚ and fear do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world‚ even though we talk about them as if they do." - Wayne Dwyer‚ Self-Help Author. By trying to establish any connections between the relationships of the above conditions‚ it is important to define each one individually first in order to make any form of correlation. So initially I will be looking at the symptoms of Stress - A mentally or emotionally
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relationship between stress‚ anxiety‚ habits and phobias and describe how you would treat these issues with hypnotherapy”. Module Five: Hypnotherapy and Counselling Skills Date: 27th April 2013 2000 words INTRODUCTION This essay will briefly research evidence on the four conditions and demonstrate the impact that stress has on our everyday lives whilst showing how it is linked to the other conditions of anxiety‚ phobias and habits. It will
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Social Phobia The effects of Social Phobia INTRODUCTION Social Phobia is an anxiety disorder that affects a large number of the world population. Large strides have been made to understand this disorder and to help overcome it with drug therapy as well as with behavioral therapy. Social Phobia in more than half the population seems to precede certain disorders like Substance abuse disorder‚ Panic disorder and depression. Unlike other specific phobia’s‚ social phobia begins in later adolescence
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treatment of Generalized Anxiety Disorder The World Health Organization (2007) reported 14% of all people aged 16 to 85 years experienced a form of anxiety disorder. In Australia alone‚ 2.3 million Australian was diagnosed with 12-month anxiety disorder and the annual cost of anxiety disorders and other mental illness was estimated at 20 billion dollars (Australian Bureau of Statistics‚ 2008). Given its prevalence‚ development for an effective psychotherapy treatment for anxiety disorder is imperative
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country and play basketball‚ a kid yelled across the gym “Why ask you’re too fat to play sports” and the whole gym burst into laughter‚ I was humiliated. Embarrassed beyond belief‚ tormented by others‚ and battling my own demons from generalized anxiety disorder‚ my problems were epitomized. It was at that point when I decided that I would not let anyone break my spirit‚ and I was determined to run both cross country and play basketball. After I ran my first cross country race‚ I was exhausted
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Life is tough. No one is going to deny it. Instead‚ everyone finds a place they can go to escape from the problems and anxiety of life. It doesn’t matter what you may be suffering from‚ or how happy and nice a person you are‚ everyone needs to flee from life. When life is getting tough‚ I love to retreat to the football field. The football field is my sanctuary‚ during a game. All the turmoil and troubles that may be swirling around us‚ on the outside world‚ don’t matter. Everything is just right
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