Presenter(s): Nolan Kriska—Business and Psychology
Faculty Mentor(s): Dare Baldwin
Session 3: To Care and How Not to Care, that is the Question…
If people avoid their anxiety now, they put themselves at serious risk for mental and financial damage . A 2013 meta analysis deduced the effects of anxiety on cognitive function from over 200 studies that involved thousands of participants . They found anxiety decreased productivity and quality of life, “The impacts of anxiety on cognition [are as follows] . Both threat of shock—a translational anxiety induction—and pathological anxiety disorders promote the detection of potentially harmful stimuli at multiple levels of cognition from perception to attention to memory and executive function” (Robinson 7) . One proven method that helps people control their anxiety is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a psychotherapy that creates new paths of thought in order to challenge unwanted behaviors and mood disorders . Using CBT now rather than later gives people a chance to continue to contribute to society and maintain a quality of life . I plan to teach CBT and its affiliated counterparts (habituation, inhibitory learning model, yuck diagram, dialectics and some existential thought) via youtube, published research, and the use of a live secure network . Thank you for your time and consideration .
Works Cited: www .ncbi .nlm .nih .gov/pmc/articles/PMC3656338/