Traumatic events cause phobias. An article, written by W.J. Magee., called the Effects of negative life experiences on phobia onset, found that unpredictable and uncontrollable evets can understandably threaten or result in harm and can have an influence on the onset of agoraphobia—otherwise known as an anxiety disorder, this is based on the National Comorbidity Survey and several other studies. The theories involving the etiology, or the cause, of phobias offers to explain the impacts of negative life experiences like trauma and the onset of phobias through a series of processes. Magee focuses on twelve experiences that can be a factor toward phobia onsets. This includes life-threatening accidents, death of parents, natural disasters like
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Cornelia Witthauer, employee of the Department of Psychology, in the Division of Clinical Psychology and Epidemiology, University of Basel, in Basel, Switzerland wrote an article titled, Associations of specific phobia and its subtypes with physical diseases: an adult community study, found that, “From these analyses etiological mechanisms of specific phobia and physical disease can be deduced” (Witthauer 1). Specific phobias are the most common to present themselves in any community and is usually associated with a weighing impairment, like the average fear for instance, needles are taken one step further; the specific phobia tends to go out of their way just to avoid the phobia being dealt with and may even avoid discussion on the topic. This would be like if a man who had a specific phobia would end up avoiding bloodwork for his healthcare to avoid a needle. So, Witthauer like Magee, found that previous phobias influence the probability of getting physical diseases. Now of course, there are other factors in getting diseases like drugs, sex and even genetics however, the fact is that getting a disease is easier when already exposed to a …show more content…
Cindy M. George, an employee in the Counseling Department, Adrian Dominican School of Education at Barry University published an article called Solution-Focused Therapy: Strength-Based Counseling for Children With Social Phobia; Solution-focused therapy for children who suffer with social phobias can be a broad topic, however they focus their goals around the child. Of course, counseling and recommendations are supplied. Clearly, Solution-focused therapy is an ideal way to treat social phobias in children. Undeniably, there’s other ways of controlling social phobias, however, this one works especially well for children with social phobias—with more studies and more cases can further the treatments to people of all
Cornelia Witthauer, employee of the Department of Psychology, in the Division of Clinical Psychology and Epidemiology, University of Basel, in Basel, Switzerland wrote an article titled, Associations of specific phobia and its subtypes with physical diseases: an adult community study, found that, “From these analyses etiological mechanisms of specific phobia and physical disease can be deduced” (Witthauer 1). Specific phobias are the most common to present themselves in any community and is usually associated with a weighing impairment, like the average fear for instance, needles are taken one step further; the specific phobia tends to go out of their way just to avoid the phobia being dealt with and may even avoid discussion on the topic. This would be like if a man who had a specific phobia would end up avoiding bloodwork for his healthcare to avoid a needle. So, Witthauer like Magee, found that previous phobias influence the probability of getting physical diseases. Now of course, there are other factors in getting diseases like drugs, sex and even genetics however, the fact is that getting a disease is easier when already exposed to a …show more content…
Cindy M. George, an employee in the Counseling Department, Adrian Dominican School of Education at Barry University published an article called Solution-Focused Therapy: Strength-Based Counseling for Children With Social Phobia; Solution-focused therapy for children who suffer with social phobias can be a broad topic, however they focus their goals around the child. Of course, counseling and recommendations are supplied. Clearly, Solution-focused therapy is an ideal way to treat social phobias in children. Undeniably, there’s other ways of controlling social phobias, however, this one works especially well for children with social phobias—with more studies and more cases can further the treatments to people of all