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ANXIETY - Coggle Diagram
ANXIETY
Symptoms
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Behavior
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compulsive actions, such as repeatedly washing hands
Therapy Treatments
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
- to help people identify and change negative thinking and behavioral patterns that can activate or exacerbate their anxiety.
Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT)
- to focus on both acceptance and change
- uses a combination of group therapy, individual therapy, and additional access to a person’s mental health professional
- to teach mindfulness, stress tolerance, emotion regulation, interpersonal skills
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)
- therapist will typically have them recall distressing mental images while they help guide the person to shift their eyes back and forth in a bilateral motion
- This is to provide bilateral stimulation, which uses alternating right and left stimulation to activate the brain’s two hemispheres
- EMDR seems to affect how the brain processes information, effectively allowing people to experience disturbing material in a less distressing way.
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
- teaches people mindfulness and acceptance strategies to help them cope with negative thoughts, sensations, or feelings.
- have better control over their reactions to unpleasant feelings
Exposure therapy
- to assist people in developing healthy coping strategies that will help reduce their fear response.