scholarly journals Reducing symptoms of social anxiety in a young adult: a case study on reattach

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renske TER MAAT

Introduction: ReAttach is a new, multi-modal psychological intervention based on the theoretical principles of arousal regulation, information processing and schema therapy. Practical research indicates that ReAttach significantly reduces psychological problems in both adults and children. Theories on ReAttach state that this is done by creating functional schemas, which in turn create more effective coping styles in clients and decrease psychological distress.Objectives: This article aims to provide a better understanding of ReAttach theory and give insight in the treatment process.Methods: This is done by linking theory to the treatment process of a young adult (N=1) with symptoms of social anxiety.Results: The psychological distress in the client decreased from 32 (serious problems) to 12 (no problems).Conclusion: ReAttach decreased symptoms of anxiety in the young adult and the theoretical principles of arousal regulation, information processing and schema therapy seem applicable to the case.

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824402093251
Author(s):  
Hua Li

Psychological intervention has a positive impact on the competitive psychological ability and performance of athletes, while there are few studies on this subject. To improve the psychological ability of athletes’ mood and coping styles and promote the smooth progress of the competition, a single-subject experimental design model is used carry out psychological intervention on four high-level athletes for 8 months. According to the characteristics of Wushu routines, the psychological measurement and social validity evaluation are combined to explore the effect of psychological intervention. The results show that the mood state of four athletes improved obviously with the same trend. The coping styles showed a positive upward trend after psychological intervention. The results of three athletes also improved in the City Games. In addition, the results of “social validation” obtained from the coaches and athletes support the effectiveness of the intervention. Psychological intervention can effectively improve the bad mood and negative coping style of Wushu routine athletes so as to improve the competition of athletes.


2020 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-79
Author(s):  
Riley J. Luke ◽  
Michael Daffern ◽  
Jason L. Skues ◽  
Justin S. Trounson ◽  
Jeffrey E. Pfeifer ◽  
...  

Imprisonment can be an intensely stressful experience, and efforts to limit distress are critical to prevent adverse events such as suicide. This study examined whether time spent in prison predicted psychological distress in young adult and adult prisoners, and whether coping style moderated this relationship. While time spent in prison was not associated with distress, the use of avoidance coping was associated with higher levels of prisoner distress. Seeking social support was associated with lower levels of distress, but only for older adult prisoners. These results can be drawn upon to guide psychological treatments designed to lessen prisoner distress.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 23-34
Author(s):  
Nurul Naimah Rose ◽  
Aida Shakila Ishak

The aim of this paper was to explore the emotional coping of psychological distressed women who had undergone counselling session based on Solution Focused Therapy Module. Six (6) working women were selected as subjects based on the criteria such as currently working and have had experience symptoms of psychological distress such as anxiety and depression for the past four weeks. The subject’s levels of psychological distress were measured using the Kessler psychological distress scale (K10). In this study, qualitative case study method had been done to get in depth understand of the emotional coping styles among the subjects. The pre and post interviews had been conducted with all the subjects to explore how they cope emotionally with the psychological distress before and after the intervention. Finding of this research explained that subjects had a different style of emotional coping before and after the intervention. The subjects agreed that their type of emotions influenced the level of psychological distress. Before the intervention, subjects experienced negatives emotions that influenced them to have negative styles of emotional coping such as withdrawal, over thinking, problem avoidance and crying. After the intervention subjects experienced positive emotions that made them to be calmer and relax, they also felt better and able to think of the solutions to their problems. Thus, they need to be able to control their emotion prior to reducing the level of psychological distress. Subjects also have different coping mechanism before and after the intervention due to their age differences and maturity level.


1970 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-90
Author(s):  
Zinoviia Karpenko

The article gets opportunities to use the polyphonic confessional novel ‘Second-Hand Time’ by S. Alexievych for   a spiritual healing of the post-totalitarian societies. Such healing is characterized by a very important feature like the synthesis of the schema-therapy and bibliotherapy as a mean of solving the problems connected with re-socialization, humanistic psycho education of the present generations, personality self-education. It is clarified in which way  the exposition of irrational beliefs and dispositions (schemes) and techniques of mastering, which are given in the form of dysfunctional child and parent particles  as well as coping styles of conquest, avoiding and overcompensation in the literary work, may enhance the understanding of  the causes of formation, the mechanisms of preservation and functioning of  illusory destructive and victim   directives in the collective and personality value consciousness depriving either personality or entire society of the  attributes of subjectivity, responsibility, and respect. It is concluded that the author's position as to the limited re-paternity gives a chance to make an aksiocorrection of the present motivational discourse peculiar to the generations hurt by the Communist ideology and deprivation: to promote the validation and reconstruction of the negative life experience as well as strengthening of the productive coping-particles of a child and an adult to interrupt the pathologic transgenic transmission. У статті представлено можливості використання поліфонічного роману-сповіді С. Алексієвич «Час секонд хенд» з метою духовного оздоровлення посттоталітарних суспільств. Важливим чинником такого оздоровлення виступає синтез схема-терапії та бібліотерапії як засобу розв’язання завдань ресоціалізації, гуманістичної психоедукації нині сущих поколінь, самовиховання особистості.                З’ясовано, як експозиція представлених у художньому літературному творі ірраціональних переконань і диспозицій (схем) і способів опанування у формі дисфункційних дитячих і батьківських часток та копінг-стилів підкорення, уникнення й гіперкомпенсації сприяє усвідомленню причин формування, механізмів збереження і функціонування в колективній та індивідуальній ціннісній свідомості ілюзорних деструктивних і віктимних настановлень, що позбавляють окремих осіб і суспільство загалом атрибутів суб’єктності, відповідальності, гідності.                Зроблено висновок про те, що авторська позиція обмеженого повторного батьківства дає змогу здійснити аксіокорекцію наявного мотиваційного дискурсу травмованих комуністичної ідеологією і деприваційною практикою поколінь людей: валідизувати й реконструювати негативний життєвий досвід та зміцнити продуктивні копінг-частки дорослого і щасливої дитини з метою переривання патологічної трансгенеративної передачі.


2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 1085-1094
Author(s):  
Sudheer Kumar Shukla ◽  
Prerana Tripathi ◽  
Mukesh Pandey ◽  
Amit Dubey ◽  
Misra Shiv Mangal ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 6-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siân E. Halcrow ◽  
Melanie J. Miller ◽  
Anne Marie E. Snoddy ◽  
Wenquan Fan ◽  
Kate Pechenkina

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peta Stapleton ◽  
Sarah Garby ◽  
Debbie Sabot

Teaching professionals report higher levels of work-related stress and symptoms of psychological health problems than the general population. This study examined psychological distress, coping styles and wellbeing in 166 Australian teachers (aged 22–65 years; M =  37.74 years, SD =  10.84 years). Participants completed an online survey comprising demographic items and four empirical measures (The Satisfaction with Life Scale, Subjective Happiness Scale, The Brief COPE Inventory and The Patient Health Questionnaire). Work, workload and finances were identified as leading sources of stress. Moreover, above-average clinical symptoms of anxiety, depression and physical concerns were reported, and 17% of respondents met criteria for probable alcohol dependence. Results suggested that maladaptive coping strategies employed by teachers may contribute to their risk of increased psychological distress, and decreased life satisfaction and happiness. These findings indicate the need for work-based programmes to enhance teachers’ coping strategies in an effort to reduce psychological distress and improve overall wellbeing in teaching professionals.


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