Case Introduction
As we advance with the pathological conditions exhibited by my client Mr. Jackson Long. It is imperative to understand the phenomena involving the specific behaviors affecting his quality of life. My client is currently suffering from severe phobias, which enhances his anxiety levels to the extreme of producing him panic attacks. Jackson, as he prefers to be called, has developed arachnophobia, acrophobia and verminophobia.
Additionally, arachnophobia is the excessive fear to spiders, acrophobia is the phobia to heights and verminophobia, also known as mysophobia is the obsession to be free of germs or in other words, clean. The last phobic fear, verminophobia, it is considered an (OCD) obsessive-compulsive disorder (Andrews, …show more content…
Thomas University in Miami, Florida. He is currently living with his mother to ease up his commute from school to work and to prepare financially to pay off his student loan. Consequently, his biology teacher referred Jackson to my office, after noticing his phobic avoidance behavior in her laboratory class. During the assessments, Jackson completed a set of questionnaires, which consisted in gathering personal information since his middle adolescence until his early adulthood. In this fashion, it could facilitate the causes of these psychological disorders and assist in generating a custom therapy to target these comorbid.
Background
For the duration of the assessment, Jackson confess that when he was fourteen years old, her parents got divorced and he was devastated since as of result of that his relationship with his father deteriorated. He used to go camping and fishing with his father every summer and after he re-married, all the father-son activities gradually ceased. For that reason, Jackson started to feel lonely, depress and fear for spiders since his father used to tell him tales while camping or fishing about
As we advance with the pathological conditions exhibited by my client Mr. Jackson Long. It is imperative to understand the phenomena involving the specific behaviors affecting his quality of life. My client is currently suffering from severe phobias, which enhances his anxiety levels to the extreme of producing him panic attacks. Jackson, as he prefers to be called, has developed arachnophobia, acrophobia and verminophobia.
Additionally, arachnophobia is the excessive fear to spiders, acrophobia is the phobia to heights and verminophobia, also known as mysophobia is the obsession to be free of germs or in other words, clean. The last phobic fear, verminophobia, it is considered an (OCD) obsessive-compulsive disorder (Andrews, …show more content…
Thomas University in Miami, Florida. He is currently living with his mother to ease up his commute from school to work and to prepare financially to pay off his student loan. Consequently, his biology teacher referred Jackson to my office, after noticing his phobic avoidance behavior in her laboratory class. During the assessments, Jackson completed a set of questionnaires, which consisted in gathering personal information since his middle adolescence until his early adulthood. In this fashion, it could facilitate the causes of these psychological disorders and assist in generating a custom therapy to target these comorbid.
Background
For the duration of the assessment, Jackson confess that when he was fourteen years old, her parents got divorced and he was devastated since as of result of that his relationship with his father deteriorated. He used to go camping and fishing with his father every summer and after he re-married, all the father-son activities gradually ceased. For that reason, Jackson started to feel lonely, depress and fear for spiders since his father used to tell him tales while camping or fishing about