Anxiety Disorders-Are We Doing Enough to Help?
Speaker(s):
Presentation: This presentation will cover at how a person with anxiety disorder feels; treatments used; if treatments are effective; and discuss if we can change our interactions to decrease the anxiety in an anxious person. This presentation will cover a description of anxiety/panic/agoraphobia, anxiety and how it affects a person from the person’s point of view, ways anxiety is treated (inpatient and outpatient), medications used to treat these disorders, and substance use among the persons. There will also be a group discussion about if treatments are really effective and if it warrants a disability. We will also have a group discussion about ideas and thoughts on better ways we can interact with these folks.
Objectives:
- Anxiety Disorder/Panic/Agoraphobia will be discussed and a general knowledge of all three will be learned including person’s attitudes towards, definitions, and statistics.
- Substance use among the persons with the disorders will be discussed.
- It will be established how often those who have the disorder(s) are disabled by the disorder.
Slides:
Dame_Anxiety Disorders Are We Doing Enough to Help