Humanistic Model

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is a very common anxiety disorder; symptoms include nervousness, worrying and tension. The anxiety is not linked to one thing and patients can be overwhelmed by a general feeling of dread. A patient with GAD will worry about the same things as any unaffected person, for example, their health, personal relationships or work. What sets them apart is that the degree of worry or tension is higher than normal levels. The worrying can be both persistent and debilitating. Symptoms are moderate but long lasting persisting for longer than one month. Possible treatment methods for GAD include Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Psychopharmacological Therapy, and Acceptance Based Behaviour Therapy. It will be argued that CBT is overall a better treatment for GAD and has been found to be effective and tolerable in the treatment of GAD.

Gestalt is a fascinating approach to therapy with many unique techniques, interventions and goals that set it apart from other approaches. "Self-acceptance, knowledge of the environment, responsibility for choices, and the ability to make contact...are important awareness processes and goals, all of which are based on a here-and-now experiencing that is always changing" (Corey, 2009, p. 200).

In developing an ideal human resources organization for a 500-employee health care provider organization, I borrowed from a few different HR models. Fallon and McConnell (2007) report that the combination of various HR models is not only expected, it can also be beneficial. I would argue that incorporating practices associated with the humanistic model of HR would be helpful with the development of an ideal health care organization. The humanistic model focuses on the growth and development of employees (Fallon & McConnell, 2007). The growth and development of employees within a highly skilled and highly educated workforce will be necessary to retain the best employees and keep employees competent in the rapidly changing health care field.

Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is characterised by pervasive, uncontrollable, and excessive worry (Newman et al., 2011; Marcus, Westra, Angus, & Kertes, 2011; Salzer, Winkelbach, Leweke, Leibing, and Leichsenring, 2011; Rynn et al., 2008; & Mittee, 2005). It is also associated with somatic symptoms (Salzer et al., 2011; Rynn et al., 2008; & Mittee, 2005), and avoidance of emotional processing (Newman et al., 2011). Prevalence is higher in women, particularly women aged 45 to 55 (Burton, Westen, & Kowalski, 2015). The Australian Burro of Statistics reports a 5.9% lifetime prevalence for GAD (as cited in, Burton et al., 2015). It is there for important to evaluate different treatment methods that directly target problem areas associated with GAD. Treatment methods evaluated in this essay include; duloxetine; cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), and acceptance-based behaviour therapy (ABBT). It will be argued that CBT is the most effective short and long-term treatment for GAD.

In a true clinical setting, a patient is free to express feelings and experiences to facilitate self-healing through positive intervention techniques. With the data available on positive psychology, many clinicians may be tempted to utilize a particular positive intervention with the belief it will make a tremendous impact on the patient. However, this may be unhealthy for the patient who may need to experience negative or difficult emotion to work through the issue they are dealing with. Nonetheless, positive therapy has a definitive useful role in psychological treatment and “adds a deeper dimension to the treatment setting” (p. 404). Therapists who use this type of therapy, however, should remember not to “become a slave to the ‘tyrannies of optimism’” (Seligman, 1990, p. 292; as cited in La Torre, p. 404).

Gestalt therapy is also highly focused on contact and dialogue between the client and therapist (Corey 2013). In order to effectively carry out this form of therapy, counselors must have a high level of personal development. In order to be effective, counselors need characteristics such as sensitivity, timing, inventiveness, empathy, and respect for a client (Corey 2013). This form of therapy often requires counselors to have advanced clinical training and experience.

Anxiety Disorders are an extremely prevalent type of mental disorder that affect approximately 10% of the population (Burton, Westen and Kowalski, 2015). One of the lesser-known Anxiety Disorders is Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) affecting around 2% of the population (ABS, 2007d, as cited in Burton, Westen & Kowalski, 2015). Stapinski, Abbot and Rapee (2010), define GAD as “persistent anxiety at a moderate, but disturbing level [in addition to] unrealistic worry about life circumstances” (as cited in Burton et al., 2015). Furthermore, GAD has been closely linked with depression and a reduced life quality (Roemer, Orsillo & Salters-Pedneault, 2008).

The purpose of the Gestalt Therapy is for the therapist to increase the client’s awareness (Murdock, 2013). It helps the clients to focus on the “here and now” of what they are experiencing and doing (Jones & Butman, 2011). Distress would be alleviated if the client can accept and trust in their feelings and experiences.

In gestalt therapy the relationship between the therapist and client is the most important aspect of the therapy. This is because “dialogue” is an important tenant to the therapeutic process. This dialogue is based on experiencing the other person as he or she really is and showing the true self. This way, the patient isn’t being manipulated towards a certain goal. In doing this, the patient is in charge of their own growth and self-support. Personal responsibility is very important in gestalt therapy.

When diagnosing a person with anxiety, there are many factors that go into consideration. As much thought that the diagnosis contains, so does the approach in how to properly treat the patient of this disorder. The first approach that seems to be the most positive, in my opinion of course, is the humanistic approach. From this viewpoint, the professional providing the treatment may feel that the origin of Jake’s disorder would begin at the discouragement he may be feeling specifically as he is embarkinging on this new challenge for harder courses. A treatment from the humanistic approach would most likely just be trying to reinforce positive attitudes about the challenging courses to give Jake more of a motivation, so he’s also willing to have

This disorder is characterized by feelings of excessive worry and anxiety on a daily basis. These feelings may be so debilitating that these people may seek treatment from a psychologist to help reduce their symptoms. A few treatment options a psychologist may choose for their client include: cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) which focuses on identifying, understanding and changing thinking and behavior patterns; acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) which uses strategies of acceptance, commitment and change and lastly, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) which uses techniques for emotional regulation. These three styles of therapy are the most prominent and commonly practiced in treating generalized anxiety disorder (Andreescu et al., 2014) Regardless of which technique is selected it is clear that all of the treatment options available can help increase a person’s quality of

Personally, I believe everything we achieve is earned. If we have a particular outcome in which we desire, then we will simply put forth the effort it takes to receive whatever that aspiration may be. One of my favorite sayings is “life is what you make it”. One can decipher that phrase, in such way that everyone has had troubled times in their life, but it is how one responds to those times that shapes them into the person they are today. Prior to knowing all of the modern perspectives, if asked, I would have assumed I shared only the same characteristics as the humanistic perspective. With that being said, after reading the first chapter in the book, I consider myself sharing some of the same outlooks as John B. Watson, as well. Obviously,

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., affecting 40 million adults in the United States age 18 and older, or 18% of the population; that statistic includes myself. Sophomore year of high school, I was diagnosed with GAD which stands for generalized anxiety disorder, and I was also diagnosed with social anxiety, major depression and chronic daily headache. When my therapist told me I was diagnosed with all of those disorders, I was not shocked. I knew for a very long time that something was not okay with me, now it was just a matter of how I was going to deal with what I was just diagnosed with and if I was going to let it define my life. Anxiety is something I dealt with in my past, something I am dealing with in the present, and I am going to conquer it for my future here at Saint Ben’s.

Of the plethora of pathological disorders in existence, mood disorders are among the most common. Specifically, anxiety disorders were found to have a 29 percent prevalence worldwide making them one of the most common disorders in existence (Baxter et al., 2012). In the previous study, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Therapy (CT) were used to treat patients with depressive and anxiety based symptoms. ACT was shown to be an effective treatment method for these mood disorders. In addition, Foreman et al., (2007) demonstrated that ACT is equally effective as CT for the treatment of common anxiety and depressive disorders. The present article examined the effectiveness of psychodynamic therapy (PT) on social anxiety

This fully function person as Carl Rogers (1961) described is a person who is in touch with his deepest and innermost feelings and needs. The individual understands their own emotions and place a deep trust in their own instincts and urges. “Unconditional positive regard” plays an essential role in becoming a fully functioning person. Rogers believed that a fully-functioning person is an individual who is gradually working toward becoming “self-actualized”. This individual has received unconditional positive regard from others, does not place conditions on his or her own worth, is capable of expressing feelings, and is fully open to life 's many experiences.