Anxiety (1 day)

Anxiety Disorders can be highly debilitating, causing great distress to the person experiencing this and to those around them.

This course aims to raise awareness of the conditions and as a result to help support workers consider appropriate supportive strategies.

Learning objectives:

By the end of this course learners should have understood:

• What the person concerned may experience
• How this may impact on their ability to manage their personal and work lives
• The difficulties for those around them
• Anxiety Related Disorders. Definitions and signs and symptoms
(References to the DMS) To include:
        -Anxiety Neurosis
        -Phobias
        -Panic
        -Obsessive Compulsive Disorders
• How Anxiety links to other Mental Health conditions
• What “causes” Anxiety:
        -The Medical model
        -A Psychodynamic model
        -The Social model
• What can be done to “treat” Anxiety. To include:
-Counselling, Therapies, Analysis
        -Cognitive Behavioural Treatment
        -Social Approaches
        -Hypnotherapy, Yoga, Dance, Sport etc.
• Medication:
        -what medication may assist
        -the dangers in medication
• The challenge for the support worker and others in a social care setting
• What can be done to help the person in a social care setting
• The support, advice and information available to assist the worker providing support
• When we might be breaching our role. Setting limits
• Who to refer on to

Training methods:

• Tutor presentations
• OHP/PowerPoint presentations
• Case study
• Handouts
• Discussion
• Word shower method
• Small groups