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    Describe your understanding of the 2 forms of relaxation therapy (RT) noted in the study. The two forms of relaxation therapy that are noted in this week’s research article and are utilized in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder, and panic disorder are progressive relaxation technique and applied relaxation technique, (Siev & Chambless, 2007). Progressive relaxation is, just as I sounds, a method that gradually trains the body to relax by first learning to tense and then relax muscle

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    Planning for the Informative Speech with Analysis Speech Topic: To inform my audience of the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of Generalized anxiety disorder Rhetorical Purpose: To inform my audience about . . . Their own mental profile and how to recognize the symptoms so they can help themselves and others around them Audience Analysis: (Refer to chapter on Audience Analysis) (RU Core Goal: a) Summarize Audience demographics, prior exposure/knowledge, common ground/interest, disposition/attitude

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    Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) affects multiple areas of an individual’s life. GAD may co-occur with other disorders, impacting an individual’s social, personal, and professional life. GAD and MDD are closely connected to each other, and may co-occur. However, they each have their own distinguishing characteristics (Blanco et al., 2013). Moreover, rumination is considered to be a process of repetitive and negative thoughts (Valenas & Szentagotai, 2014). Likewise a person experiencing rumination

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    Generalized Anxiety Disorder Generalized Anxiety disorder (GAD) is a disorder consisting of excessive worrying, tension and nervousness. This condition can occur over and over again and if left untreated can lead to suicidal and violent thoughts in the patient. Even though there are certain triggers to the condition, the person eventually becomes so used to worrying and taking stress that they can't control the feeling. These dreadful feelings and excessive thinking eventually overtakes them and

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    Introduction This literature review and research proposal was motivated following a practice placement with a Community Mental Health Team while working with a client with Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD). GAD is a long-term condition that causes someone to feel anxious about a wide range of situations and issues, rather than one specific event. GAD is a common mental health condition affecting 1 in every 25 people in the United Kingdom, its prevalence is slightly more among women than men and

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    Although the treatment of choice for Generalized Anxiety Disorder is Cognitive Therapy Disorder, medications administration is often accompanied. Medications can consist of Anti-depressants, buspirone, benzodiazepines or other medications such as pregabalin, opipramol, and hydroxyzine which are not well studied. The first line medications in treatment are Anti-depressants or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) and serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI). Which are one of

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    Rachel is a forty-six year old, African American. Rachel suffers from generalized anxiety disorder. She lives with her two college-age daughters in a dangerous neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. Rachel only leaves the house typically between two and four times a month, usually to get her monthly haircut, gets a few items at the grocery store, or goes see her primary doctor. Whenever she needs something, food or otherwise, she has one of her daughters go do it for her. In the past two years

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    Carmen Michener Psych 201 Research Paper Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is diagnosed when a person stresses or worries excessively about their everyday problems for 6 months or more. This excessive worrying can cause many concerning physical symptoms. GAD affects about 40 million adults in America. GAD effects twice as many women as it does men. The disorder typically develops gradually, and can begin stage of life. The years of highest risk for GAD

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    health study compared sleep problems in adults and children. With adults, the statistics show that 50 percent had affected sleep problems due to generalized anxiety disorder. The children study’s hypothesis was that this statistic would be found in children as well. They used a laboratory study that found children, both male and female, with anxiety disorder took longer to fall asleep, and slept less deeply, when compared with a control group of healthy children. (1) The experiment I would conduct

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    Is called anxiety. but it is your choice if you are willing to control it but sometimes you just can't. I am a teenager just like you and I'm sure most of us here, in this class, or even in this school. have been called most of these the " overdramatic", "the attention seeker" or the " Drama queen" or simply told to "just to get a grip of yourselves" when the tears flood, when you couldn't achieve something so simple or just the stress creeping up on you. we are human.

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