Francie And The Roots Of Anxiety: A Case Study

QP engaged Maunica in participating in a CBT activity geared towards managing mood, stress and anxiety. QP explained to Maunica that the activity will enhance her awareness on how to cope with her mood, stressors and anxiety, and examined what causes those feelings. QP asked Maunica to list some events or situations in her life that causes her to have low mood. QP explained to Maunica, what anxiety and low mood is, and provided examples of each. QP pointed out to Maunica that a person cannot change the experiences they go through, however thy can change the way in how they react to the experience they go through. QP asked Maunica to list some anxiety feeling she has experienced. QP asked Maunica to list some of her physical symptoms of stress

CBT has a number of strengths; first beginning with its capacity to yield empirical results as to its effectiveness. Countless studies have shown CBT to be the most effective treatment for anxiety and depression (e.g., Oei & McAlinden, 2014; Tolin, 2010); this is likely the result of a number of factors. CBT is a collaborative, educational, time-limited model that demystifies the therapy process; changes are made with clients, not to clients, the strategies learned equip clients to better navigate current and future difficulties, and the setting of goals allows clients to clearly see their progress (Corey, 2013; Skinner & Wrycraft, 2014). An additional strength of CBT for anxiety and depression is its applicability to both individuals and groups; group CBT has a number of auxiliary benefits including, vicarious learning, a sense of cohesiveness that can increase motivation, social interaction and the opportunity to help others (Oei & McAlinden, 2014).

She discussed how she does have a clear life goal. She attributed some of her anxiety to a lack of direction in life.

For these reasons, meditative breathing was chosen as the appropriate intervention strategy to combat anxiety.

Since entering into the program, Chris has been open about his anxiety and has been willing to work on his symptoms. Chris requested additional homework outside of group therapy to work on his symptoms of anxiety. Chris completed 3 Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy workbooks titled Anxiety & Worry, Grief, and Self-Esteem. Chris has self-reported that he is improving on managing his symptoms and is learning his triggers. Additionally, Chris have developed insight and developed effective coping skills to manage his symptoms.

Cognitive-Behavioral therapy (CBT) is an empirically supported treatment for a variety of disorder diagnoses. Although pharmacological treatments are the most widely used method of treatment in anxiety disorders in America, research has found that even though patients respond sufficiently to medication treatment initially some are unable

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A couple of researchers at the Anxiety Disorders Research Center in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) examined weaknesses of CBT (Craske et al., 2014). Although CBT has been known for the most effective treatment for social phobia, not all patients show improvements after the treatment. Patients easily drop out during, or at the early stage of the treatment. Even patients who successfully finished the entire session tend to have a hard time continuing to use methods they learned and to maintain low level of anxiety, so the likelihood of reoccurrence exists. Therefore, alternative ways to solve these weaknesses are needed in order to develop the treatment itself and to provide the most matchable treatment method for each patient, according to the article by Craske et al. (2014).

Many changes happen in the body when a person becomes anxious. One of the first changes is that the individual experiences an increased breathing rate. Breathing rapidly throws off the balance of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the body thereby, triggering additional physical anxiety symptoms such as dizziness, a feeling of suffocation, increased heart rate, and muscle tension. Learning to slow down breathing can help bring physical symptoms of anxiety back under control. In addition to

Evelyn has developed anxiety when it comes to public speaking. She becomes anxious whenever she must speak in front of an audience, and she is very afraid of being a television journalist. Whenever required to speak publically, Evelyn would develop some sort of sudden illness

Cognitive- Jean suffers from anxiety caused by the fear she will start having pain in her gallbladder and be admitted into hospital again, therefore not being able to be at home with her family and loss of income due to her not being able to work. Anxiety is a normal reaction to an event that causes an individual to fear or feel stressed, however in Jeans case when the anxiety remains after the event has occurred this is when the anxiety is said to be pathological and starts to have a wider impact on her occupations (Harris, White 2013).

Social anxiety is a prevalent and common disorder amongst society. Social anxiety disorder is expressed as a fear in public and social situations for an individual (Kashdan, Farmer, Adams, Mcknight, Ferssizidis, Nezelf 2013). A person with social anxiety fears that a social appearance, outcome, or situation will lead a to negative response to their surrounding audience (Kashdan, Farmer, Adams, Mcknight, Ferssizidis, Nezelf 2013). However there are numerous treatments for social anxiety. Cognitive behavioral therapy is one of the most efficacious treatments that a patient may receive (Hambrick, Weeks, Harb, & Heimberg, 2003. Cognitive behavioral therapy has numerous techniques that can be used on patients. The result of using cognitive

QP engaged Tatiana in participating in an evidence based practice geared towards anxiety and impulse control. QP explained to Tatiana that the activity will teach her how to recognize anxious feelings and develop impulse control and when those feelings arises. QP explained to Tatiana that a person can only control their anxious feelings when they stop relax and think. QP asked Tatiana to explain or list the things that makes her feel anxious or worried. QP asked Tatiana, “If is she feels more anxious at home or at school and why”. QP asked Tatiana, to explain some of the ways she have learned to calm and relax herself. QP encourage Tatiana in participating in deep breathing exercise, as a way of showing how to calm herself down when she

Anxiety treatment could most accurately be described as having a tool belt with lots of different options to take given the situation. Breathing exercises are a great way to increase the amount of chemicals in your brain that tells itself to calm down. By taking a few deep breaths before doing something that you are nerves about, you will find that a lot of the pressure to take action will have lifted off of your shoulders. It’s much easier at that point to take action because you feel less constrained by your fear.

This is an article that specifically looks at anxiety in the school setting for adolescents. This article starts off with a story of a girl named Samantha. Samantha is a fourteen year old student that has test taking anxiety. She feels sweaty and would see the nurse daily because of her anxiousness. The article talks about the case of Samantha being common with many students in school. The article then goes into the different characteristics such as worry. Anxiety can manifest in three different ways: behaviorally, physiologically, and cognitively. Many different behaviors that children exhibit because of anxiety are reflected their attempts to control their anxiety. When discussing anxiety, there are different causes of anxiety and