A Woman with Anxiety Symptoms: Did a Diary Help to Reduce them?

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10.2991/iciap-17.2018.41How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Anxiety, observation, parenting, and progressive relaxation training

Abstract

Anxiety can disrupt functioning of individuals in everyday life, but the symptoms are sometimes not recognized. This case study is about an inferior and self-centered woman who experiences anxiety. This anxious feeling is interferes with many of her daily activities; it also makes her stutter, so she ends up crying because she feels nobody will understand her. She cannot show her best performance in everyday life and is very afraid of judgment by others. Because of this, she has become very dependent on others, too. This poor self-concept is also influenced by authoritarian parenting. An authoritarian parenting pattern makes it difficult for an individual to learn how to make decisions, since she is always directed. This makes her untrained in how to behave and make decisions, so that anxiety naturally arises when she is required to do so within a particular environment. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to see if expressive writing interventions can decrease anxiety symptoms. Diary writing activities are the main activities she does every day. In addition, researchers provide progressive relaxation training at face-to-face meetings, as well as drawing activities in two of the sessions because she really enjoys expressing herself through depiction. These activities support a decrease in anxiety. To assess the effect, we observe her progress over 4 to 8 weeks. Through this observation, we can see changes related to lower anxiety levels every day. This case study demonstrates that the application of a diary can decrease a client’s apprehensive anxiety.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Patricia Yuannita Tunrisna
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TI  - A Woman with Anxiety Symptoms: Did a Diary Help to Reduce them?
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