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    Social Phobia: McKenzie Simpson Wiregrass Georgia Technical College Social Phobia Social phobia, also known as social anxiety, is a very common disorder that many people struggle to cope with. It is characterized by a constant fear of social situations and an expectation of judgment or rejection from their peers (NIH). It can be caused by numerous circumstances, many of which stem from childhood experiences. Social phobia has a very optimistic outlook due to the many treatments available…

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    we will focus on vasovagal fainting episodes induced by viewing injections and wounds in persons with Blood-Inject-Injury Type Specific (BIITS) phobia. Reports of fainting reactions to fear-related stimuli are less than 0.1% across all phobias but reported in 100% of BIITS phobia patients (H. Stephan Bracha, 2004). In physiological terms, a BIITS phobia vasovagal fainting response consists of two phases. First there is a brief spike in heart rate and blood pressure. This increase is immediately…

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    Traumatic events cause phobias. An article, written by W.J. Magee., called the Effects of negative life experiences on phobia onset, found that unpredictable and uncontrollable evets can understandably threaten or result in harm and can have an influence on the onset of agoraphobia—otherwise known as an anxiety disorder, this is based on the National Comorbidity Survey and several other studies. The theories involving the etiology, or the cause, of phobias offers to explain the impacts of…

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    Specific Phobias

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    specific phobias. However, the development and course of specific phobias can be traced to or determined by several different factors. Behavioral, cognitive, and social theories of learning and conditioning, psychodynamic models such as the psychoanalytic theory of Freud, physiological studies of the brain, family background and genetic predisposition, variations in sociocultural themes, and theories on trauma are some of the factors that can help explain the development of specific phobias.…

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    Arachnophobia Case Study

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    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…

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    Exposure Therapy

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    Imagine floating away into space with nothing to save, or being pulled into the Earth because the gravity is to strong. Sounds funny at first but many people all over the world have this phobia. This phobia is called Barophobia, the fear of gravity or the fear of falling. "....causes a person to feel helpless when faced with thoughts about the forces of gravity." according to a young woman who suffers from Barophobia. Irregular breathing, fast heartbeats, dread, panic, and anxiety just by…

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    Outline for Informative Speech Name: Darius Tan Jing Wei Tutorial Grp: W37 Date: 7th October 2016 Title: Informative Speech Topic chosen: Phobias Specific purpose: To inform my audience that phobias are wide ranging, different from fears, and there are specific methods of treatment to treat them. Central Idea: Phobias are an irrational fear, a kind of anxiety disorder in which the individual has a relentless dread of a situation, living creature, place or thing. They are…

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    Phobia is defined as an overwhelming and irrational fear for an animal, thing or place; also it is described as a mechanism of defence before the torment that provokes the internal conflicts. The individual that develops a phobia has perceived a sense of danger in certain objects or situations. People with phobias do everything possible to avoid a perceived danger, which is much higher in their minds than in real life. It is believed that the model of classical conditioning studied by Pavlov has…

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    have panic attacks or phobias and how it brings a lot of inconvenience to everyday life. After this, Friedman claims that using of propranolol is an efficient way to remove emotional memory about things that an individual fear, for instance, fear of heights or discomfort of speaking with strangers. From Friedman’s point of view, such a treatment of the disorders…

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    I would diagnose Mr. Schackleford with PTSD, depression, and specific phobia of germs. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) requires that a trauma must be experienced, witnesses, or heard about in order for a patient to be diagnosed. Mr. Schackleford served in the Operation Iraqi Freedom conflict and experienced many traumatic situations including IEDs. The specific event that he believes to have had the greatest impression on him as a time with their troop was cleaning up after an event and…

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