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Consider the following case scenarios:

  • Karen is in her first year of seminary. Prior to joining the seminary, she was a teacher in a small catholic high school. She loves to work with the groups of people she knows in class; but she is always concerned about whether she is doing a good job and whether her peers see her as doing a good job. When she is studying, she gets up and rings her hands, her palms sweat, and she finds that her heart is racing. She spends endless hours studying to make sure she gets things right. With class projects, she begins to feel overwhelmed and sick to her stomach when she has to stand up in front of other people. As she prepares herself to do her presentation the day before, she is either awake till late in night or if she goes to bed, she has problem in sleeping.
  • Joann is a 73-year-old, retired architect who recently went to Japan. While in Japan she fell and broke her femur bone and knee cap. She spent eight weeks in the hospital recovering. She traveled back to the United States and the pins came out of her knee, which meant she had to have more surgery when she returned. She spent six months in physical therapy and seemed to recover nicely. However, in the past few months she has stopped sleeping well, experiences ruminating thoughts about the accident and repeatedly checks to see if her leg works. She also refuses to leave home because she is afraid of falling.

On the basis of your understanding of the above scenarios, answer the following:

  • Name and describe the symptoms of the difficulties experienced by each of these women.
  • Provide a tentative diagnosis based on the limited information you have in the case. Provide a strong rationale. Make sure you incorporate the diagnostic criteria you use to make your judgment.

Find two articles in the South University Online Library about the treatments available for the disorders described above and answer the following:

  • Summarize the techniques and compare them to the treatments that are outlined in your textbook for these disorders.
  • Which of the treatments you learned about would be most useful for each of these women. Why?

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From the first scenario we can deduce that Karen is having a Panic anxiety disorder. Panic
attacks are abrupt irresistible gush of fear, anxiety often associated with suddenness and
devastating intensity. Panic attacks may occur once or become recurrent especially when there is
a repeat situation. For example, one may experience panic anxiety whenever they have to do public
speech or power point presentation in a public gathering. Common symptoms associated with
panic attacks include: sweating, trembling and shaking, upset stomach, shortness of breath and
even heart palpitations.
In the second scenario, we can identify Joan’s difficulty with post-traumatic stress disorder.
People who have been involved in a shocking, scary or dangerous incident are the common victims
of this disorder.
For example, if one has been involved in a grisly road accident or sudden death of a loved
one they are likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder. Some of the identifiable symptoms
of this type of disorder may include; constant feeling of tense, insomnia, short temper, loss of
interest in enjoyable activities, memory lapse and sometimes distorted feelings.
These disorders have different effects on different people and therefore if a treatment
method works for one person it may not necessarily produce similar results for another person. It
is always advisable to seek medical attention from a mental health expert with prior experience of
handling the disorders.
A combination of both medication and therapy talks goes a long way in producing suitable
results. In the above scenarios, therapy talks are well suited to address the disorders.
According to (Shikatani & Martin, 2014). Exposure therapy and cognitive restructuring are
techniques that address the disorders the two women are facing. Exposure therapy aims at reducing

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fear of the affected person. For cognitive restructuring, the therapists help patients see the sense
in bad memorie...


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