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Treatment Options for Panic Disorder
Treatment Options for Panic Disorder including: Psychological Treatments During the past 10 years, there has been extensive evaluation of the psychological treatment of panic disorder, with and without extensive agoraphobic avoidance. This evaluation has overwhelmingly demonstrated that cognitive behavioral packages are extremely successful in managing panic disorder. In general, following treatment, around 80% of participants […]
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generalized anxiety disorder treatment study
Psychological Techniques.Psychological treatment of anxiety disorders has involved broadly similar techniques, where only the specific content differs. The main techniques used include relaxation, cognitive restructuring, and exposure. For GAD, most successful treatments used a combination of relaxation and cognitive restructuring because the seeming lack of response to external cues has made in vivo exposure seem […]
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How Do We Consider Culture in Diagnosis and Treatment?
How Do We Consider Culture in Diagnosis and Treatment? Cultural variation (or the lack of cultural variation) in the occurrence and course of mental illness and in the presentation of psychiatric symptoms all have implications for treatment. Most importantly, they highlight aspects of psychotherapy and other psychiatric treatments that may require modification to be effective […]
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schizophrenia treatment psychotherapy
Schizophrenia of CARE AND TREATMENT The community treatment team, who can be made available following GP referral,have been recommended to intervene as early as possible. This intervention is supported by the National Service Framework (Department of Health 1999),particularly with young people following their first episode of psychosis and confirmation of schizophrenia as a diagnosis. Prompt […]
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The importance of follow-up in the treatment of mental illness
Proper diagnosis and treatment will cure some health problems. Examples of such curable problems are bacterial infections. However, this is not the case for most mental illnesses. Seeing a person with a mental illness on many occasions is often the keyto ensuring recovery. When you see a person on many occasions you have an opportunity: […]
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bulimia nervosa treatment studies
Care and management of bulimia nervosa The person with bulimia is usually cared for as an outpatient. Hospital admissiononly tends to occur if the person has suicidal ideas or physical illnesses or symptoms.Although the person generally is of normal weight, they will require support and understanding by the health care practitioner in order to address […]
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anorexia nervosa treatment and prevention
anorexia nervosa Care and treatment As mentioned above, the person with anorexia nervosa is frequently reluctant toseek help as they feel that they now have control over their body. Usually it isthe parent who brings their child to the doctor. The person with anorexia needs torecognise that they need help and have motivation to change […]
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Natural Depression Treatment
Some people who are depressed will need some form of medical or psychological treatment to help them overcome their present condition. The form of treatmentwill follow on from the particular theory of causation of the condition. Most peoplewith reactive depressions (i.e. in relation to a precipitating event) may receive acourse in counselling or some other […]
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Treatment Approaches for Anxiety Disorders
The treatment of anxiety disorders is variable and will be directly linked to thenature and severity of the anxiety being experienced by the person. As mentionedabove, anxiety is one of the most treatable psychiatric disorders. However, it mustalso be remembered that anxiety may coexist in the presence of other psychologicaldisorders, such as depression. All this […]
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