heart disease? Both of these help develop some type of psychological disorder 6. List and briefly describe four psychological treatments for physical disorders. Relaxation Training- patients are taught to relax their muscles Biofeedback- patients are attached to a machine that reads all of their involuntary movement Meditation- involves changing the state of consciousness allowing their thoughts to turn away from outside thoughts Cognitive Intervention-people with ailments
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Alternative Chronic Pain Treatment for the Substance Abuser In the United States‚ there are more than 100 million people suffering from some sort of chronic pain. With the most common treatment is being prescribed medications such as a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory‚ or opioids (Boyles‚ 2011). Treating chronic pain with opioids can be affective. But the long term use presents many problems. Especially with treating a substance abuser of prescription or nonprescription opioid drugs. Patients that
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A migraine headache is a recurrent throbbing headache that usually affects one side of the head and is usually accompanied by nausea and disturbed vision. Migraine headaches can cause pain that can last for hours to days and can be so severe that all you can think about is spending some time in a dark‚ quiet place. Migraines can be accompanied by warning signs‚ like flashing lights‚ or tinging in your arm or legs. Usually patients with chronic headache often do not come back to normal neurologic
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University of Phoenix Material Appendix D Psychological and Psychophysiological Stress Disorders Respond to the following: 1. Stress can be the root cause of psychological disorders. Name four symptoms shared by acute and posttraumatic stress disorders. The four symptoms shared by acute and posttraumatic stress disorder are the ability to re-experience the event in which the individual went through‚ the wanting to avoid and wanting the emotional numbness‚ hypervigilance‚ irritability
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organs and glands. Autonomic nervous system regulates the functioning of internal organs and glands autonomically - without you being consciously aware of it. It is possible to exert some conscious control over ANS responses through a process of biofeedback It has two sub-divisions; sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. Sympathetic Nervous Sysytem A division of the ANS that activates the interna muscles‚ organs and glands to prepare the body for vigorous activity‚ or to deal with a
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Behavior modification is being used to treat drug addiction by applying aspects of the learning theory‚ and establishing ways to eliminate drug use as a positive reinforcer and withdrawal as a negative reinforce (Abadinsky‚ 2014). This form of treatment attempts to search for new positive reinforcers for drug users (Abadinsky‚ 2014). Since the learning theory is associated with behavior‚ it’s important that reinforcers are available strictly after a certain behavior is displayed in order for behavior
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The Two Common Sexual Disorders In Females Tiarra Stuart Centralia College Theorectical Background In women there are two different "sexual pain disorders" that are categorized. These are Vaginismus and dyspareunia. They were first categorized in the DSM-111-R(American Psychiatric Association‚1987). These were also put into three other books as a sexual pian disorder(American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists‚1995; AmericanPsychiatric Association‚1994; and World
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ringing‚ hissing‚ clicking or swooshing sounds. If you are found to have this condition then the specialist that you attend will try to use a number of different treatments on you which include but are not limited to surgery‚ tinnitus maskers and biofeedback. If your tinnitus is found to be severe you may not be able to find any relief. If it is just a minor case of tinnitus then you may be able to find relief with the first treatment you attempt. This will be temporary though and you will need to
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They also adopt a similar experimental (medical) model‚ but their main interest concerns the physical (or physiological) basis of behaviour and the relationship between Mind-and-Body. Research areas: central nervous system‚ split-brain‚ stress‚ biofeedback‚ drugs‚ sensory deprivation. Humanistic Psychology It does recognize human experiences but at the expense of being non-scientific in it method and ability to provide evidence. Research areas: the self‚ motivation‚ guilt‚ anger‚ worry‚ love. Key
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Axia College Material Appendix D Psychological and Psychophysiological Stress Disorders Respond to the following: 1. Stress can be the root cause of psychological disorders. Name four symptoms shared by acute and posttraumatic stress disorders. a) Nightmares‚ or even re-experiencing events that had occurred through flashbacks b) Avoiding situations that the person perceives as traumatic c) Feeling alone and less responsiveness to what was once
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