Mental Health Case Study

A Practice Nurse guide to common mental health problems: Anxiety disorders. (2015). Practice Nurse, 45(10), 25-28. Retrieved from EBSCOhost Practice Nurse provides a basic definition of anxiety and explains how anxiety can become a serious problem in severe cases. Practice Nurse provides real life examples, Jane who can’t go to the doctor due to anxiety, which illustrate the severity of anxiety disorders without explaining the neuroscience behind it. Practice Nurse explains how people like Jane can overcome their anxiety with cognitive behavioral therapy and medication, and provides a screening tool that can be used for detecting anxiety disorders.

Baer, J., Kim, M., & Wilkenfeld, B. (2012). Is it generalized anxiety disorder or poverty?

L., & Itsines, J. (2015). Your mental health. Scholastic Choices, 31(3), 4. Retrieved from EBSCOhost Foster and Itsines illustrate the difference between regular anxiety and anxiety disorders by providing real-life examples of people with anxiety disorders and the symptoms they faced. The number of adolescent anxiety disorder cases has been rising lately because of the importance of school and the constant social connection due to social media. The real-life examples show the importance of school counselors and the role family can play in the treatment of anxiety disorders.

Generalized anxiety disorder: People who worry about everything--and nothing in particular— have several treatment options. (2011). Harvard Mental Health Letter, 27(12), 1-3 Retrieved from EBSCOhost Generalized anxiety disorder is the most common anxiety disorder that affects 5 percent of people in the United States that has many physical and mental symptoms. Generalized anxiety disorder is caused by chemical imbalance in the brain causing a disturbance in the fight or flight response and brain circuitry. Medication and psychotherapy are the recommended treatment options for generalized anxiety disorder. However, there is hope that more effective methods of treatment with be developed to deal with all anxiety

The study based in Swedish schools found that students that had social anxiety disorders were much more likely to experience post-traumatic stress symptoms and females were more likely to have social anxiety disorder. The study found that school counselors were the most important facilitators of effective treatment of social anxiety disorder and post-traumatic stress symptoms, and recommended counselors be well-versed in the treatment of various mental illnesses to facilitate quick and efficient