Rather, her collection offers nuanced portraits of characters confronting anxieties and prejudices that leave them not as free as they would like to be.
A significant deterioration was detected in performance on selective attention tasks for the OCD participants after confronting anxiety-provoking scenarios, as compared to neutral scenarios.
—Posted by Earl Oliver As a performer (classical pianist), I've often confronted anxiety in many forms: I worry about finding footing as a musician, confront fears that I might not really be good enough in the crowded arena of pianists, and occasionally face the sheer terror of going "out there" to play a recital or concerto with orchestra.
George Osborne has vowed to confront anxieties over Chinese involvement in Britain's nuclear energy sector after announcing a £2bn government guarantee for the delayed and controversial Hinkley Point power plant project in Somerset.
11 12 This treatment approach utilises a number of therapeutic strategies that aim to teach young people to confront anxiety-provoking stimuli (exposure) without using safety behaviours to reduce anxiety (response prevention).
While having a say in the type of exposure tasks may be useful to motivate some young people, Angelosante et al. (2009) suggested that adolescents may also value increased clinician guidance of exposure tasks, to give them an extra 'push' to confront anxiety-provoking stimuli.
Working through The Villains was my way of confronting that anxiety, and while I still feel ambivalence, I'm generally hopeful about technologies future in society.
My children fear riding the buses, and other children I know have developed serious anxiety disorders to confront the anxiety of returning home from school.
The effect of CT may be mediated by an early change in estimated social cost [ 38] partly explaining the long-term CT superiority over E. In addition, there are studies demonstrating that behavioural experiments may be more effective in anxiety reduction than exposure alone [ 46] particularly when an external focus of attention is used for confronting social anxiety-provoking situations.
This sentimental cartoon hopscotches through the usual teen-angst territory in its depiction of a camp full of misfits confronting familiar anxieties — the dawning and crushing of crushes, the miseries inflicted by the popular kids — as they try to avoid temptations their slimmer peers don't have to worry about, like candy bars.
