"Anxiety is one of the most pervasive mental health concerns affecting students, yet a significant number of students with anxiety disorders remain underserved. If left untreated, anxiety can hinder students' personal/social, academic, and career development" (Thompson). Anxiety in high school can come in many different forms. The most common anxiety disorders found in schools are test or performance anxiety, social anxiety, and generalized anxiety. "About 8 percent of today’s U.S. teens suffer from…
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interfere with your daily activities, you may experience anxiety. Among these academic stressors, anxiety is the main cause of academic stress that negatively affects the academic performance of the selected sophomore Medical Technology students of Silliman University because it affects…
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Anxiety in Children Anxiety in children can be a major challenge for both the child and the parents. Child anxiety can take many forms and be very strong or weak. It can only appear in certain situations or be a constant factor in the life of the child – and the family. While every child is different, and the anxieties they feel are just as different, anxiety in children is an issue that many families struggle with. It is estimated that around five percent of all kids suffer from child anxiety.…
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder Here we see a patient exhibiting the symptoms of GAD, obsessing over daily concerns worse than average.** Dear Reader, It’s important to sometimes step back from the psychological effects of a behavioral disorder and look more in depth at the biological underbelly of the problems associated with certain behavioral and psychological disorders. By doing this we can hope to differentiate those disorders from what is…
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dangers of it, and how it reaps little or no reward in increasing athletic performance. A group of subjects that I learned about were some of the individual supplements themselves including salt tablets, sports drinks, and energy bars. I learned that salt tablets are a supplement that teen athletes commonly consume for an increased salt intake, therefore a boost in electrolytes, and they take them to increase their sports performance. There is a major disadvantage to taking salt tablets, dehydration, teens…
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Anxiety Disorders Jennie Banks BEH/225 August 21, 2011 Anxiety disorders affect people from all over the world and are actually the most common mental disorder. The main types of anxiety that will be discussed in this paper are as follows: specific phobias; panic disorder; generalized anxiety disorder; and obsessive-compulsive disorder. This paper will cover the previous types of anxiety disorders and different treatment methods currently used for people who suffer from them. (Maisto &…
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SOCIAL ANXIETY DISORDER INTRODUCTION 1. The concept of fear dated back as far as 400 BC. During this time, Hippocrates, an ancient Greek physician described the overly shy person as “someone who loves darkness as life and thinks every man observes him”. When fear is persistent and exaggerated, it results to tension and stress and consequently, anxiety. 2. The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines anxiety as “a nervous disorder marked by a feeling of uneasiness”. An anxiety disorder involves…
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Diagnosis and Treatment for Anxiety Disorders Diagnosis and Treatment for Anxiety Disorders The key issues in the case of Donald are anxiety disorders, depression and panic attacks. Anxiety disorder is the major issue because Donald has been suffering from this disorder for most of his life. He started suffering anxiety during the first years of his marriage and he has been married for about 30 years and he is still suffering from anxiety. The anxiety is causing Donald to worry about almost everything…
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Trembling hands, rapid heartbeat, sweaty palms, all characteristics of social anxiety. I can't remember my life ever being absent of this unforgiving disorder, yet it took 13 years for me to realize that feeling such an extreme amount of anxiety wasn't normal. Throughout elementary school people categorized me as "shy"– a word I have come to loathe – because even then I refused to engage in a conversation longer than a quiet "hi". Teachers, peers, friends, and family always asked me why I was so…
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of attention. For people afflicted by social anxiety disorder, this is a much more common occurrence. In attempt to better understand social anxiety disorder, people need to have knowledge of the condition. Through learning what it is, what causes it, what the symptoms are, what situations provoke it, how it affects people, and how to treat it. Before exploring all of these, a person must know what social anxiety disorder is. Social anxiety disorder is a condition that interferes with a person’s…
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