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Psychological Components of Generalized Anxiety Disorder Ellyn Rachelle Boggess Liberty University Abstract The feeling of anxiety is a natural reaction to stresses. It can be a healthy natural reaction that keeps us safe in dangerous situations. Without some sort of a natural defense mechanism such as fear, that can cause and anxious feeling, humans would go around doing dangerous things all of the time. Yet for many people that anxious feeling is much more than a natural…

person may not work for another. Some strategies or treatment are more successful when combined with others. Activity therapies, also called recreation therapy and occupational therapy, promote healing through active engagement (crafts, walks). Biofeedback is a process of gaining control of physical processes and brainwaves (mind over body). Expressive therapies are a form of psychotherapy that involves the arts (music, art, dance, drama, and poetry). Group therapy involves any type of therapy…

Nystagmus refers to involuntary eye movements which are usually in the horizontal axis but can also be vertical or torsional. 1 According to the speed of the fast and slow phases, nystagmus is classified as pendular or jerky and based on the time of onset, into congenital (or infantile) and acquired types. 1-4 Infantile nystagmus syndrome (INS) may be further classified into sensory and motor types. In patients with sensory type, there is a recognizable structural abnormality leading to…

Q. What barriers or hindrances do you see in your environment that prevents you from full access? A. My interviewee thinks that society has become more aware of the disease itself and barriers or problems are becoming easier to overcome. However, Bob feels a little limited when he sees his friends doing things socially that he cannot participate in. He used to have a very active social lifestyle which has had to be markedly cut back because of the illness. Q. Do you receive…

Nursing has always been focused on the treatment of patients, promoting health and providing quality, effective and efficient care. Nurses often find themselves on the front lines of patient care. This fact alone allows nurses to have the unique ability to build trusting and many times lasting relationships with their patients. Nurses owe it to their patients to be up to date with the latest available treatments whether it be traditional medical treatments or alternative treatment modalities,…

As taboo as some alternative therapies can be, many patients began them because of a recommendation. Using the word of mouth is a popular way people learn about therapies. Friends and families play a big role during a dying person’s health by helping make decisions, being a caretaker, and suggesting new ways to improve the patients overall well-being. This may mean helping them look into therapies that have seemed to work for them in the past. Another popular reason for starting a new therapy is…

Interventions Used in Counseling The very first intervention I used with David was establishing rapport and building on the therapeutic alliance (Beck, 2005). David was my first client with PTSD that was not actively on any mind altering substances at the start of our sessions. In order for our sessions to end well they had to begin well. I actively collaborated with David from the beginning, empathized with him, adapted my therapeutic style so we both would feel comfortable in the room, and to…

I struggle with social anxiety. Sometimes it is only a minor hindrance as I go about my day, while other times I am mentally crippled by my fear of judgment by those who are around me. This fear is a driving force in my life and it makes me hesitant to walk into new situations and to meet new people. This on its own is hard enough, but when I do overcome the fear and step out into new situations with new people I am greeted by a new struggle: communication. I try to communicate and there is a…

2. Isolation Effaces Inmates’ Social Instinct The primary purpose of solitary is to offer a chance for prisoners to rehabilitate themselves; but in fact, it goes to the opposite way and even go worst, such as destroys the inmates’ social skill. Craig Haney, a professor psychology at the University of California Santa Cruz, points out, “Everyone’s identity is socially created: it’s through your relationships that you understand yourself as a mother or father…. a hero or villain. But after years…

Use of Complimentary and Alternative Medicine during Pregnancy The use of complementary medicine is on the rise across the nation; even pregnant women are using alternative means of treating their ailments while growing their young. Different cultures have their own means of self-medicating during times of sickness and pregnancy as they consider other forms of alternative remedies as a way to treat with natural medicine. A plethora of recent research is currently in progress, expanding and…