Question

Generally speaking, clients feel stressed and are often anxious when visiting a health care professional. This stress may be a result of the problem for which they are seeking treatment or simply from the anticipation of the meeting itself. Select one of the age groups either children or adolescents. How would you expect that client to present if he or she had (select one) mild, moderate, or severe anxiety? What are three therapeutic approaches you would use with this client? Why did you chose these approaches?

Answer 1

An adolescents ages between 13 to 17th years of their life.Here they may be anxious to approach a healthcare professional even when they are able to make certainly a wise decision with proper guidance and support. A client exhibiting a severe anxiety usually presents with nervousness, feeling insecure,lack of eye contact,excessive perspiration, tachycardia, tachypnea,confusion .

The therapeutic approach to treat this patient

• Cognitive behavioral therapy helps them by providing support and identifying the root cause and helping them to come out
• Medication like antianxiety, antidepressants are more effective if symptoms are very severe
• Cranial electro stimulator stimulates the brain by sending micro pulse wave
• Other:relaxation techniques, breathing exercises

These approaches can enable the client to come out of the problems gradually but steadily and prevent the rate of relapse.