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Description of Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Published in Melisa Robichaud, Naomi Koerner, Michel J. Dugas, Cognitive Behavioral Treatment for Generalized Anxiety Disorder, 2019
Melisa Robichaud, Naomi Koerner, Michel J. Dugas
Although some would argue that living in the future has advantages, such as being better prepared for situations that might occur, it is clear that an excessive future orientation prevents one from enjoying moments in the here and now. In fact, many clients with GAD report that they are unable to enjoy themselves because they are constantly thinking about what might happen next. Research has shown that individuals with GAD tend to have thoughts beginning with “What if …?” Clearly, it is difficult to enjoy the present moment when one is thinking thoughts such as, “What if I can’t meet my deadline at work?”; “What if my child gets terribly sick?”; and “What if my husband decides to leave me?”
The person experiencing schizophrenia
Published in Chambers Mary, Psychiatric and mental health nursing, 2017
Janet Wood, Niall Mclaughlin, Warwick Owen
A follow-up study on the impact of group singing for people with mental health problems was undertaken by Clift and Morrison,46 using a validated measure of mental distress (CORE-OM Questionnaire) with 42 participants. They found a ‘moderate effect’ in terms of overall improvement, but significant improvements in dimensions of well-being, problems and functioning. Participants also felt less troubled by negative thoughts and feelings, suggesting that a focus on singing provided distraction from otherwise troubling areas. Interestingly, there was also an improved sense of future orientation. These items are critical in terms of moving forward towards recovery from severe mental health distress. The participants of this research were a community group called the Mustard Seed Singers, who met on a regular basis to sing together, give public performances and be part of a network of seven singing groups. This community innovation is just another example for mental health practitioners of how creative and arts therapies are developing an evidence base showing that these approaches and interventions have significant benefits for mental health service users.
Cultural Competence in Ambulatory Health Care Practice
Published in Marcia Egan, Goldie Kadushin, Social Work Practice in Community-Based Health Care, 2012
In summary, health care consumers and families who hold the dominant culture's value of individual autonomy, meeting one's own needs, punctuality, and a future orientation may have less difficulty adapting to the norms and values of biomedicine than those whose cultural values are centered on sharing, family, and a fluid orientation to time.
Suicidal Ideation and Risky Behavior are Related through Impulsivity and Low Wish to Live
Published in Archives of Suicide Research, 2023
Our second set of hypotheses, that there would be an indirect relationship of suicidal ideation on risky behavior through wish to live, hopelessness, and impulsivity, had mixed support. Wish to live and impulsivity both had significant indirect effects on the relationship between suicidal ideation and risky behavior, while hopelessness did not. This was true when wish to live, hopelessness, and impulsivity were included in one model and when they were evaluated in individual models. As noted in the introduction, the concept of a future orientation may provide a framework for understanding how suicidal ideation, risky behavior, wish to live, and impulsivity all interact with each other. In particular, these relationships may be driven by a negative future orientation, which can be described as a belief that one does not have a future or that their future cannot be positively changed (Hirsch et al., 2006). A negative future orientation is distinct from a reduced future orientation; we posit that, while an individual may still have a future orientation, their risk for suicidal ideation and risky behavior may be explained by a future orientation that has shifted negatively. Accordingly, low wish to live, hopelessness, and impulsivity may be a reflection of this negative future orientation. Future research should directly measure future orientation to better understand its potential for explaining these relationships.
Encouraging hindsight in advance: Age progression in therapy – and life
Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 2022
In their review, Boyd and Zimbardo highlight the value of a future orientation in the form of foresight and describe future oriented people as tending to be more successful, better at saving money, and better at making healthy lifestyle choices. Foresight leads to greater career planning, encourages saving money for a “rainy day,” (i.e., if you were to become ill or lose your job) and leads to better choices about how you treat the body you’re going to be living in for a while (Torem, 2017; Yapko, 2021). Zimbardo has paid considerable attention to the effects of one’s temporal orientation on life experience, and with his coauthors has even detailed a recovery program for treating PTSD that relies heavily on building a future orientation (Zimbardo, Sword, & Sword, 2012). The data documenting the program’s success give a compelling glimpse into the therapeutic merits of shifting peoples’ attention to the future. However, the formal use of hypnotic age progression is given cursory attention at best in their consideration. It’s a question worth asking: How much more might such interventions be enhanced by the utilization of hypnosis to amplify the therapeutic associations?
The moderating role of positive peers in reducing substance use in college students
Published in Journal of American College Health, 2022
Sarah Jean Beard, Jennifer Michelle Wolff
Self-regulation and future orientation reflect maturation of cognitive control circuitry, increasing linearly throughout adolescence and adulthood.6,56–61 Self-regulation, or the ability to regulate one’s attention, affect, and activity in accordance with external demands,56 is relatively low in adolescents and young adults compared to older adults, likely because of these typical neurobiological changes.62 Further, college students with low self-regulation, compared to same-age peers, report greater endorsement of risky activities such as binge drinking.63 Future orientation is the ability to imagine one’s future life circumstances, and the extent to which one considers the future.64,65 Having a less future-oriented time perspective, as is more normative during adolescence and young adulthood, is linked to higher alcohol and tobacco use.57,59,66–68 It is currently unknown if associating with peers who engage in positive behaviors increase the levels of future orientation and self-regulation, possibly by modeling cognitive control.