A nurse therapist is conducting a session with a group of clients in which he is teaching them to utilize relaxation techniques to alleviate anxiety. Relaxation techniques help clients with anxiety disorders because they do what?
A) Reduce autonomic arousal
B) Increase sympathetic stimulation
C) Release cortisol
D) Increase metabolic rate
Ans: A
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Regularly inducing the relaxation response reduces the general level of autonomic arousal in anxious clients. It lowers blood pressure, heart rate, metabolic rate, and oxygen demands. This physiological effect may result from effects on the production of cortisol, a hormone the body releases in response to stress. Cortisol is helpful during the fight-or-flight response, but its prolonged presence in chronically anxious or stressed clients can inhibit the immune system and have other deleterious effects on the body.
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