Select a bad habit you would like to break or a positive behavior you would like to encourage and explain how you might use a behavioral or cognitive behavioral technique to alter your behavior.
Anxiety
Anxiety is a feeling of apprehension, tension, or uneasiness related to the expectation of something bad happening. Mostly all people experience anxiety from time to time, which is normal and not always bad. However, if anxiety becomes excessive, long lasting, or prevents a person from doing things they want or need to do then it considered a problem. Some characteristics of anxiety would be physical, cognitive, or behavioral distress. The onset of anxiety is anywhere from school age to adulthood. Physical components of anxiety involve bodily reactions like high blood pressure, sweating, muscle tension, nausea, and stomach pains. The Cognitive components involve thoughts of others and situations, thoughts about yourself, and thought of unrealistic dangers or excessive worrying. Behavioral components are actions such as crying, trembling, running away, and carrying on.
Anxiety disorder is commonly diagnosed in general as just that Anxiety. However there are specific anxiety disorders, Separation Anxiety, Social Phobia, Obsessive-Compulsive, Specific Phobia, and Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
Using the cognitive behavioral technique approaches and addresses both thoughts and behaviors while emphasizing reciprocal relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy treatments target each of the three components of anxiety. Cognitive Behavioral Technique help to gradually face the fear to address the behavioral component, modification of negative to positive self-talk combats the cognitive component, and then relaxation training minimizes the physiological component.
Outcome of this technique would be to accomplish a reduced feeling of anxiety, develop anxiety management skills, and achieve a sense of mastery and freedom over the anxiety. Also gaining...