Anxiolytic

Introduction Assessments and Diagnosis in counseling are important issues in the professional counseling field. Counselors competence and credentialing plays a major role in making sure counselors are fully prepared for counseling in addictions and preparing the appropriate diagnosis and assessment tools for each client. The objective of this paper is to explore treatment plans, screening and assessment processes. Discuss the need of crisis management, explain the assessment process for…

During this paper, I will be informing the reader of the many different types of addiction, addictive behaviors, treatment options available for addiction, and how addiction impacts the lives of the victim and their family. Ten percent of all adults in the United States consider themselves to be in recovery from a drug and/or alcohol abuse problem (Feliz, 2012). According to an article in Psychology Today, ” Addiction is a condition that results when a person ingests a substance (e.g., alcohol,…

An Open Letter to Congress, Since before Nixon’s declaration of the war on drugs, our nation’s policy makers have stigmatized the use of marijuana of any form. Since then research has found many novel uses for marijuana medically. With the enactment of Proposition 215 in 1996, the stigmatization of marijuana began the slow start of dismantling. Proposition 215 allowed those with the agreement of their primary care giver the ability to possess or grow marijuana for medical purposes—without the…

This is a 58-year-old male with a 3/26/2003 date of injury. A specific mechanism of injury has not been described. DIAGNOSIS: Shoulder Pain 11/10/15 Progress Report described that the last urine toxicology was in July. A new UDS was done and the results are pending. The patient has right shoulder, right wrist, right thigh and lumbar spine pain. He is going to see an IME doctor on 11/13/15. Constant use of Opioids since < 6 months. The average pain level is 6/10 with 5/10-scale level at…

Physician Assisted Suicide. It is the act of committing suicide with the aid of another person, most commonly a physician. This act involves the physician sitting down with the person, and guiding them through the process of ending their life, usually done by medication, counseling them through the lethal doses of drugs that would be used, prescribing and supplying said drugs to the patient. Many people do not agree with this act, mostly due to religious beliefs. In fact, out of the 50 states in…

According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (www.adaa.org) Anxiety Disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., it affects 40 million adults in the U.S., but what about children? If so many adults are diagnosed with anxiety disorders, why are only one in eight children diagnosed with anxiety? Is mental illness in children being overlooked? Children with anxiety disorders typically are at a much higher risk to perform poorly in school and disassociate themselves…

An estimated 110,000 students between the ages of 18-24 are arrested every year for an alcohol-related violation, such as public drunkenness or driving under the influence, 80 percent of U.S. college students have abused alcohol, and the amount of students who abuse prescription drugs has increased by 450 percent over the last decade (“Facts and Statistics of College Drug Abuse”). Medications used to cure diseases, ease pain, and overall benefit society are the same medications that misused, can…

muscle tension, and sleep disturbance. There are different kinds of treatments for this disorder, there are medication, self care, therapies and specialists that can help. Medication that usually helps are Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor, Anxiolytic and Antidepressant. There are other treatments like cognitive-behavioral therapy which is effective for many people, helping them to identify, understand and modify faculty thinking and this helps learning to control their worry. The easiest…

Neuroeconomics: the neuroscience of decision making Neuroscience is a scientific field that studies brain activity though changes in brain blood flow. Neuroscience is the discipline in charge of studying through the nervous system activation that occurs in areas of the brain. The body receives information by its interaction with the world and that information gets through our senses, that information is caught from the nervous system and passes through the spinal cord until it arrives to the…

Case Study One Distress can be the motivator that forces an individual to act when he or she may not have or the block on which that individual stumbles and falls. Distress disorders can paralyze individuals, preventing them from living full and productive lives. Anxiety and depression can be the sources of individuals’ distress and cause individuals an enormous disruption in life. In the first case study, the emotional factors disturbing Donald’s life are described. By examining the symptoms…