Research 3: Patients in two groups did not have any major difference on demographic or clinical variables at baseline. According to (Telch, Schmidt, Jaimez, Jacquin, Harrington, 1995), “Examination of overall SDS scores at baseline revealed that 69% of all participants rated the panic disorder symptoms as creating moderate-to-serve impairment in work functioning, 80% rated the symptoms as creating moderate-to-severe impairment in social functioning, and 62% rated the symptoms as creating moderate-to-severe impairment in family and home responsibilities.” Untreated participants have significant impairment in QOL compared to CBT-treated participants. Although CBT-treated participants have less impairment in QOL, they failed to have a significant
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Therefore, it is hard for me to relate them as an undergraduate student. HT stresses on one’s free will and personal worth of the individual (Lowenstein, 1993). HT emphasizes patient’s feeling, knowing and doing as a whole but sometimes it is better to stress on some specific areas that the patients have trouble with (Lowenstein, 1993). The main components of HT are understanding, trust and sympathy between the therapist and patient. Once the therapist can build a trustworthy relationship with patients, the future steps will be easier.
Personally, I prefer HT than other psychotherapies. It needs a special connection between the therapist and patient in order to work on the patient’s problems. Since enhancing the QOL is better to focus after the symptom remission, I think HT will be more appropriate and effective than CBT because the contents of post-treatments will mostly be encouraging the patients to go back to their normal daily routines and society. Therapist can be more like a person who can give guidelines or a supporter along with the patient by using HT.
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Therefore, it is hard for me to relate them as an undergraduate student. HT stresses on one’s free will and personal worth of the individual (Lowenstein, 1993). HT emphasizes patient’s feeling, knowing and doing as a whole but sometimes it is better to stress on some specific areas that the patients have trouble with (Lowenstein, 1993). The main components of HT are understanding, trust and sympathy between the therapist and patient. Once the therapist can build a trustworthy relationship with patients, the future steps will be easier.
Personally, I prefer HT than other psychotherapies. It needs a special connection between the therapist and patient in order to work on the patient’s problems. Since enhancing the QOL is better to focus after the symptom remission, I think HT will be more appropriate and effective than CBT because the contents of post-treatments will mostly be encouraging the patients to go back to their normal daily routines and society. Therapist can be more like a person who can give guidelines or a supporter along with the patient by using HT.
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