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Diagnosis Sam is a 42-year-old male suffering from Generalized anxiety disorder. Sam exhibits excessive worry occurring more days than not over the past year. Sam reports symptoms of muscle tension, fatigue, insomnia, irritability and was observably restless, which is more than the required three symptom minimum. He feels it is difficult to control the worry and it has impaired his functioning and caused significant distress over the past year and this distress in not better attributed to a…

Depression should be treated with antidepressants due to various ethical reasons that help basic mental and physical health. Depression is a serious mood disorder that enables one to easily feel sad, upset, and stressed out. Since depression is common today, more people rely on different types of treatment such as medications and drugs. “The World Health Organization reports that depression is the second leading cause of disability worldwide and, by 2020, is estimated to be the leading cause of…

The issue on a child’s cognitive development is also bought up when it comes to applying mindfulness techniques, because majority of research on mindfulness is conducted on adults. Semple, Lee and Miller (2006, cited in Baer, 2006) argue that there are cognitive and interpersonal functions that cannot be generalised from adults to children. (Jha, 2005, cited in Thomson and Gauntlett-Gilbert) also mentions that it is vital for child to develop in order to understand the teachings of mindfulness.…

According to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fifth edition (DSM-5), social anxiety disorder is associated with fear or anxiety regarding one or more social situations to which an individual may be exposed to possible negative judgment by others. These fears or anxieties are out of proportion to the actual threat presented by the social situation. For social anxiety order to be diagnosed the fear, anxiety or avoidance of social situations must be persistent for at least six…

completed by using audio tapes to guide the participants in daily practice in their homes. This technique has been very effective in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder. Hoge et al. (2014) used the MSBR to demonstrate that the constructs of mindfulness and decentering are distinct from one another, they are both crucial to performing successful generalized anxiety therapy, and that mindfulness appears to be the construct that most reduces anxiety, while decentering appears to have a…

tatistically, common behaviour is defined as 'normal ' which results in statistically rare behaviour being defined as 'abnormal '. There has been difficulty in coming to an agreement on just how statistically rare behaviour has to be in order for it to be classed as abnormal. At some point in our lives, we will all demonstrate some form of abnormal behaviour. Many mental disorders such as phobias are not statistically rare enough to be defined as abnormal. An example of how difficult it is to…

A study by Otto, Simon, Powers, Hinton, Zalta, & Pollack (2005) aimed to distinguish the rates of isolated sleep paralysis among those with panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Sixty-one individuals between the ages of 30 and 56 took part in the study with 43% being women. Participants were outpatients seeking treatment for panic disorder with or without agoraphobia, social anxiety, or GAD. Researchers…

it at some point in their life. However, an anxiety disorder “can cause such distress that it interferes with a person 's ability to lead a normal life” (Anxiety Disorders). While there are several types of anxiety disorders, the most common is Generalized Anxiety Disorder. The article goes on to say that this mental illness “involves excessive, unrealistic worry and tension, even if there is little or nothing to provoke the anxiety” (Anxiety Disorders). So where does anxiety disorder come…

5% of the Australian population each year. There are many different types of anxiety, each one with its own causes and symptoms, but all curable. Many people experience anxiety everyday as it is human nature to worry, but this does not necessarily mean that they have an anxiety disorder. The main difference between the two is that when somebody who does not have an anxiety disorder worries, the feeling passes after the thing that caused them to worry is finished or has gone away, whereas…

telephone number obtained from the US Postal Delivery Sequence Files and a list-assisted random digital frame. They conducted forty minute phone survey and also used a Patient Health Questionnaire to measure symptoms of major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder. They found out the incarceration rates of each neighborhoods by obtaining each person 's address and looking up their zip codes (total of 28) in The Justice Atlas of Sentencing and Corrections. They conducted the…