Specific strength

Before taking the StrengthsFinder test, I knew I had strengths and I knew I had weaknesses, yet I never could pin point exactly what they were. After completing this test, I now have a better understanding of what my current strengths are. Now being in a college setting, I think there are a plethora of opportunities for me to use my strengths to help others grow in their personal life and their relationship with Christ. From this test, I learned my strengths consist of harmony, responsibility, maximizer, consistency, and discipline. These five strengths are not the only strengths that show up throughout my life however, they are the most distinct. When my first strength was called harmony, I did not have any idea to what this was referring…

INTRODUCTION It has been widely accepted that resistance training can be of great value for optimizing health and longevity. Resistance training is designed to improve muscular fitness by exercising a muscle group against an external resistance. Although resistance training is often associated with strength and power sports, this type of training is important in building up specific strengths in all sport categories. With the appropriate training methods, resistance training can enhance an…

employee of the Department of Psychology, in the Division of Clinical Psychology and Epidemiology, University of Basel, in Basel, Switzerland wrote an article titled, Associations of specific phobia and its subtypes with physical diseases: an adult community study, found that, “From these analyses etiological mechanisms of specific phobia and physical disease can be deduced” (Witthauer 1). Specific phobias are the most common to present themselves in any community and is usually associated with…

My heart pounded and i began to sweat hysterically. That honeycomb makes me feel nauseous. However, this affects 16% of people across our nation. Trypophobia is a phobia of holes that can be found almost anywhere or in anything. People who have trypophobia usually can not look at pictures or things that can trigger it without feeling scared, harmed, or violated in a way until they get help or start to practice therapy. Where can trypophobia be triggered and how do people react? Almost anything…

Foremost, phobias are an anxiety disorder that creates a perpetual, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or environment (Myers, 2012). When broken down, there are three distinct type of phobias that an individual can be diagnosed with. The first is specific phobia, which deals with an individual having a fear of a specific object or environment (Preda, 1994-2014). Hence, that said individual might display the symptoms of having a specific phobia towards a certain stimuli that…

Western Society to create these avoidance behaviors. Anxiety, fear, and heart rate all increased significantly in the presence of the threatening stimuli. Specific phobias (SP) are the first characteristic of an anxiety disorder to be present (Burstein et al 2012). Phobias are a fear of a particular object or situation that leads to avoidance of that object or situation. Overgeneralization effecting other similar situations can be a result of these avoidance behaviors. SPs have a lifetime…

Although most phobias often have similar characteristics, there has been a noticeable difference in how phobias function. Looking at the differences, you can see that there are two prominent categories known as complex and specific phobias. Both groupings present their own causes, ages typically affected, and much more. Specific phobias, also known as simple phobias, often manifest in children. They are often symptoms of a traumatic experience, but can also be irrational. Specific phobias are…

Dissecting the Presence of Arachnophobia in Northern Kentucky Although Spiders provide a plethora of benefits to our community, they continue to be one of the most feared insects not only in the Northern Kentuckian area, but also throughout the world. In this project, I will hopefully come to a conclusion on why people generally fear spiders, which is an actual diagnosis called Arachnophobia. Spiders are in the arachnid class, which is the reason the condition is called Arachnophobia.…

During the span of our humanly years we all have things that make us jump, things that may go boo in the night giving a very big fright scare. Maybe something off of Nightmare before Christmas. Either way a phobia is an extreme irrational fear of something. Firstly, ladies and gentlemen I present to you automaton-phobia. Anyone afraid of ventriloquist dummies, wax dummies, scarecrows, and so on have this fear. In short someone with this fear can’t handle anything that falsely represents a…

anxiety and panic from thinking about or being exposed to the object or situation feared. Some, but not all, medications include beta blockers, antidepressants, and sedatives are used to subside or block the fear all together. Beta blockers work by blocking the adrenaline from the body, such as increased heart rate, shaking voice and/or limbs, and elevated blood pressure. Antidepressants are used to affect a neurotransmitter in your brain that is thought to influence mood, helping control the…