Illustrate the difference between “normal” anxiety and pathological anxiety.
What will be an ideal response?
Normal (ontological or existential) anxiety arises partially from the fact that human experience is transient and tenuous. The ever-present possibility of death constantly threatens our very being. Existential anxiety is an essential and necessary part of fundamental and normal human processes such as growth and creativity. Pathological (neurotic or psychotic) anxiety results when individuals avoid or repress normal anxiety. Practitioners of existential therapy work to teach patients to carefully listen to and confront their anxiety rather than reflexively running from it.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
A small correlation is sometimes defined as a value between +.25 and -.25, and is best described as indicating
a. a small proportion of variation in one variable is associated with the other's variation. b. less than one fourth of the cases in one variable are related to cases in the other. c. scores on one variable are less than one-fourth as large as scores on the other.] d. all scores on one variable are within one-quarter standard deviation of scores on the other variable.
What are the cognitive therapist’s goals?
What will be an ideal response?