Impulse response

Client Description The client is a 14 year old female who is half Irish, half Japanese. She is presenting with social anxiety and low self-esteem. The client is currently in 8th grade and is on a cheerleading squad. The clients parents are divorced and she currently lives with her mother. She reports that she has a great relationship with both of her parents and they are both supportive. The client states that she has friends at school, but her and her best friend are no longer speaking. She…

“It's dark out, and you're home alone. The house is quiet other than the sound of the show you're watching on TV. You see it and hear it at the same time: The front door is suddenly thrown against the door frame.’ ‘Your breathing speeds up. Your heart races. Your muscles tighten.”- (Layton) Fear is a chemical reaction that tells our brain and bodies that something is wrong. It is a survival instinct that that keeps us safe and out of danger. But what chemical reactions happen when you are afraid…

conditioning. The cognitive theory is where it focuses on an individual’s thoughts that has established their emotions and behaviors. It’s important to change an individual’s thoughts to change their behavior. According to the theory, irrational responses are the products of subconscious thoughts and erroneous beliefs. Cognitive reframing is used by the psychiatrist to help the client examine their beliefs and develop better ways in assessing a situation. The stop method is used to teach the…

roots. One of the driving forces of some human behavior is something called the “fight or flight response” (also known as the acute stress response). This is the psychology term that describes one of the ways we can react when under stress. Understanding the purpose of the fight…

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or better known as PTSD is an illness affecting many people in the world, but its most common victims are the veterans of war. One in eight veterans return from war afflicted with PTSD and the number continually rises with war time atrocities becoming worse as new terror organizations form. The things our soldiers see greatly traumatize leaving them scarred for life and give them an incomprehensible fear of it, leading to a difficult life in which they can’t live…

Have you ever been so overwhelmed and frustrated that you didn’t know what to do with yourself? Has your mind ever been all over and you couldn’t focus on what you were doing? Do you panic about the unknown or things out of your control? At least 22.8% of Americans struggle with these qualms on a daily basis (NIMH, n.d.). These are indications of Anxiety. Anxiety is one of the most common disorders in America and has an average age-onset of 11 years old (NIMH, n.d.). There are multiple types…

The majority of people suffering from anxiety and depression go a considerable amount of their lives undiagnosed. What triggers them to seek treatment is often not that they are having mental health problems, but physical health problems that have been brought on by their disorders. If the illness goes undiagnosed for too long it will generate an assortment of complications that can lead to the sufferer being buried under a myriad of medications. This spiraling effect can make the diagnoses feel…

Whenever one is startled, or caught off-guard, the innate human response is to either flee or fight. Most human brains are wired to run from danger. This runs parallel to when humans are faced with a problem or a difficult situation. Many individuals would rather run away from problems than work at resolving them. The novel “Things That Fly” by Douglas Coupland conveys the themes of Escape as well as The Human Condition in his short story by utilizing the symbols of Superman, the narrator’s…

Stress can be defined in 3part, which are stressor, stress and stress response. According to psychology glossary “A Stressor is anything (physical or psychological) that produces stress (negative or positive) is considered a stressor. For example, getting a promotion is a positive event, but may also produce a great deal of stress with all the new responsibilities, workload, etc.” (2015) By definition, stress is any uncomfortable "emotional experience accompanied by predictable biochemical,…

Seizure-Alert and Response Dogs “A service dog is a canine service animal that generally serves a single individual with a physical or mental disability” (Ensminger definitions xi). SEIZURES AND EPILEPSY “Epilepsy is a neurological disorder characterized by repeated occurrences of seizures” (Varsavsy et al. 313). Seizures can cause a person to fall, shake, walk, or lose consciousness (Fetty 7). “The symptoms of epilepsy are very diverse and these depend on the region of the brain that is…