Obtrusive Anxiety: A Case Study

Instantaneous relief from the avoided situation such as running away or quick escapes does not allow the patient to learn that by staying in the feared situation for a sufficient length of time would subsidize the anxiety eventually. Without this experience to teach the patient they would not be able to know of the effect of self-exposure for long periods of time on their anxiety and discomfort in the avoided situations. The goal of the experience is for the patient to re-enter the avoided situation and maintain in that circumstance until they feel better, even a small amount of improvement is still improvement nonetheless. Therefore the exercise should be done over and over consistently until the patient’s fear approaches an acceptable level. …show more content…
The clinicians’ are responsible for making sure the patients are encouraged to formulate their individual realistic predictions of the possibility of a negative event taking place and the extent to which they are responsible for the event if it happens. The clients are taught new ways to think, feel and behave in order to reduce the problematic behaviors that cause them the obtrusive anxiety “based on the works of Ellis and Harper (1978), Beck (1976), Meichenbaum (1977), and McMullin and Giles (1981), assumes causal relationship among thinking, feeling and …show more content…
The therapy provides a wide range or techniques for counselors to apply to the patient “so they can develop treatment plans based on the intellectual, developmental, cognitive, and emotional”. Like other therapies, homework is a key element in CBT for the therapy to be effective, cooperation of the client and counselor/clinician must be apparent throughout the process. The counseling process requires the CBT counselors’ aim to be to “help COAs to change faulty thinking to foster more appropriate feelings and