A Research On ' Relaxing Your Fears Away ' By Wolpe, J. ( 1961 )

In Wolpe’s treatment, he used relaxation training, construction of an anxiety hierarchy, and desensitization. For the relaxation training, patients were taught to relax the body in which they could then later relax wherever they desired and be in a deep relaxation state. The construction of an anxiety hierarchy involves the therapist and the patient to list possible anxiety causing situations. The list goes from situations that would cause a bit of anxiety to higher fearing situations a patient may experience. The last step called desensitization, is when the patient “unlearns” their phobia and has to now be in a relaxed state while going through the list of anxiety causing situations. This process is then repeated in several sessions for the patient to decrease their phobia.

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Fear, an intensive form of anxiety, can be crippling in nature to some people. It is important that we overcome our fears to be able to grow and mature. There are three main ways in which we can manage or resolve fear: behavioral therapy, systematic desensitization, and exposure desensitization. Behavioral therapy was introduced by John B. Watson, a behavioral psychologist, and involved an individual alternating engagements in coping and relaxation techniques to help desensitize that person to the stressors (Seaward, 2015). Systematic desensitization involves the anxious person learning to de-stress from the fear in small, piecemeal increments through which they always feel in control. Exposure desensitization, on the other hand, occurs when the individual is introduced to the real stressor is brief and save encounters with the stressor. Through combinations of the three different ways to

Science with all its marvels and wonders continues to press forward making extraordinary breakthroughs. Psychology plays a key role in many of sciences steps forward, each branch of psychology focusing on a specific techniques and theories. In the document the center of attention is surrounding the application of clinical psychology, this branch of psychology is unique as it all realms of an individual’s issue. Specifically speaking, anxiety is the psychological disorder that is under review through the processes of a clinical

The eminent psychiatrist, Dr. Paul Hoch, in his classic treatise on differential diagnoses in the field of psychiatry made the observation that symptoms of anxiety and depression were components of every major psychiatric disorder (Hoch, 1972). People without psychiatric disorders also experience episodes of anxiety which is typically defined as a diffuse, unpleasant, and sometimes vague sense of apprehension; however, anxiety disorders, psychological disorders whose main component is anxiety and lead to significant disruptions in a person's everyday functioning, are among the most prevalent psychiatric conditions in the world (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2000). Moreover, there is abundant empirical evidence that anxiety disorders when left untreated may increase the risk of cardiovascular-related disorders and other health concerns (APA, 2000). Therefore it is important to be able to distinguish the proper anxiety disorder diagnosis and initiate treatment. One of the most disabling of all the anxiety disorders is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

However, although Wolpe wasn’t the first to suggest systematic desensitization as the best method to be used when treating anxiety disorders he was the first successfully apply it. With Wolpe believing phobia are learned he believed he could reduce the anxiety by a conditioning procedure. His theory of suppressing the phobias was the fundamental idea of behavioral therapy where you have learned an ineffective behavior or the phobia in this case and must now unlearn it. With this in mind, Wolpe created and used behavioral therapy as his basis and composed a three step process of desensitizing the phobia. First using relaxation training to create a personal state of relaxation Wolpe then moved to the construction of an anxiety hierarchy where he and the patient developed a list of scenes involving the phobia and finally the actual unlearning processes of desensitization was created. Repeating all three steps as one Wolpe averaged out at 12 sessions. As a result, his session results positively favored his method with a 91% success rate accompanying it and supporting his usage of correctly applying systematic desensitization to phobias or anxiety

Anxiety disorders may not seem like a problem in the world today, unfortunately, many people suffer from different types of anxiety disorders. They include, panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, phobias, generalized anxiety disorders, and social disorders. Everyone has experienced a type of anxiety in their lives one time or another and can be bothersome. Anxiety is described as a normal response to stress, defined as a cluster of mental illnesses that causes people to feel scared, distressed, or uneasy during certain situations that others may not experience. In America, anxiety disorders are the most common today, and they affect more than 20 percent of the population. Effective treatment

Anxiety is a disorder in which an individual suffers from the inability to see past their immediate moment, without the fear of the unknown waiting for them. Scientifically speaking, anxiety is brought upon an individual by a chemical imbalance, which is explained by a neural pathway being blocked or disrupted, causing “emotional pain and irrational conclusions” (Richards, 2016). The broad term of anxiety cannot begin to scratch the surface of the disorder, however, it can be broken down into three main types: “general, panic, and social” (“Anxiety Disorders”, 2013). Whether they are conditioned to be anxious, traumatized as a child, or have severe social dysfunction,

One of the common disorders includes anxiety disorders. These disorders are exaggerations of our adaptive and normal reaction to stressful or fearful events. It is normal to feel scared or tense when facing any stressful situation. Anxiety is the natural response of human body. When a normal human being feels threatened, his natural body response behaves like an automatic alarm. Anxiety disorder is not a bad thing; it helps to stay focused and alert and motivates to solve problems. There are several types of anxiety disorder. This essay is based on one of the of anxiety disorders, such as Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

The third category of anxiety management comprises of using self-help techniques such as breathing and mediation in a person’s daily routine, therapy and support groups. Breathing problem normal affect many persons living with anxiety. Several of those cases comes about due to poor breathing techniques; however, most commonly anxiety forms poor breathing techniques by continually stimulating the autonomic nervous system, finally altering the way in which a person breathes. Anxiety could make an individual to suffering from the following; shallow breathing which is characterised by breathing in too fast, monitored breathing characterized by thinking too much about one’s breathing and over-breathing which is breathing in more air since one feels

According to Abnormal Psychology: An Integrative Approach (2015), anxiety is defined as a “negative mood state characterized by bodily symptoms of physical tension and apprehension about the future” (Barlow, 2015). Anxiety is a set of behaviors, such as looking worried, anxious or fidgety, or a physiological response in the brain that is reflected by increased heart rate and muscle tension (Barlow et al., 2015). Within the spectrum of anxiety disorder, there are many disorders that are classified under anxiety, such as panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder. In regards to this essay, the anxiety disorders of obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic

A behavioural psychologist by the name of Joseph Wolpe helped clients in getting rid of their phobias in a process that would be much quicker than the process of psychodynamic which is the explanation that humans functioning is based on interactions of drives and forces which occur within the body such as unconsciousness and the various structures of personality. The basis of psychodynamic was introduced by an Austrian neurologist, Sigmund Freud. The reason Wolpe conducted this study was to find the most effective way in to perform systematic desensitization to eradicate people’s phobia. The hypothesis which Wolpe used was that to remove people’s phobia a fear should be combined with something that is also relaxing to the body and that eventually

It can be done with a therapist, helper, or alone, and begins with the smallest phobia, gradually working up to more difficult tasks. This is where clients learn to manage their fear firsthand, and we are always aware of the courage it takes for anyone to confront what they fear most - so we are gentle and go slowly. This therapy is especially helpful for driving and flying phobias, as well as fears of heights, bridges, elevators, being alone, and social situations. It is similar to systematic desensitization except without the relaxation techniques.

The behavioral approach studies how one behaves and reacts in situations that trigger anxiety. Jake is psyching himself out by his recently harder classes. In other words, he dreads taking these classes because he associates them with anxiousness. This learning is processed through paired association. In this example, the unconditioned stimulus would be the advanced class and the unconditioned response would be Jake becoming anxious. Systematic desensitization can treat this due to that fact that it is learned from the environment. Jake will go through gradual steps to reach full treatment. First, Jake must learn to relax through training. Second, Jake will create a list of objects or situations in school that makes him uneasy. Lastly, he will face the stimuli in a relaxed state. As an illustration, Jake tells the therapist that the tests in his new classes worry him. The therapist will guide Jake to become less tense while studying and taking the test. This will make his apprehension decrease and treat his anxiety disorder. Psychologists view this today as having the ability to clearly measure

In the counseling world, there are many different techniques and skills that work with the type of therapy the client is going to receive, it all depends on the type of therapy and personality of the client in general. This paper will focus on a behavioral-cognitive approach to treating a person with severe test anxiety. In this paper, we will look and develop three different treatment plans and compare them to each other. We will also answer other questions like Would it is an effective method to use for severe depression. Now that we know where this paper is headed, let first at the three treatment plans for the Individual that we are helping in this paper.