3 Article Summaries:
“Reducing Earthquake-Related Fears in Victim and Nonvictim Children” is an article that includes the study to measure fear. To do this, the authors used a powerful study technique known as the activity-based cognitive fear reduction (ABCF) by using the Fear Survey Schedule for Children (FSSC). The FSSC consisted of gathering data from 266 participants to determine the different types of fear characteristics of children between the ages of 8-12 years. The ABCF was a nine-session procedure that hoped to reduce children’s earthquake related fears. The authors hypothesized that this intervention scheme would be substantially different from a post event debriefing intervention, which usually occurs immediately after a traumatic event (Karairmak and Aydin). The results showed that earthquake victim children were more fearful on two subtests of the FSSC than were nonvictim children and that girls had significantly higher scores on all subscales of the FSSC than the boys.
“Reducing Earthquake-Related Fears in Victim and Nonvictim Children” discussed children with fear of earthquakes, while, another article, “Work Characteristics and Social Phobia in a Nationally Representative Employed Sample” discussed social phobia. This article is connected with social phobia which is fear of being social with others. The objective of the article was that social phobia is associated with long-term impairment and disability (Stansfeld et al.). This is the first study to look at the connection of work characteristics with social phobia in a population. Self-reported work characteristics were linked to 12-month social phobia diagnosed by the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview in 24 324 employed individuals from the Canadian Community Health Survey (Stansfeld et al.). What the authors concluded was interesting. Job insecurity may be a result of illness in employment populations, while on the other hand high job pressure may also increase the risk of symptoms.
“Work Characteristics and Social Phobia in a Nationally Representative Employed Sample” is connected to another article that discussed social anxiety disorder, specific phobia and fear conditioning in healthy individuals. In this article, “Functional Neuroimaging of Anxiety: A Meta-analysis of Emotional Processing in PTSD, Social Anxiety Disorder, and Specific Phobia,” the authors searched for common and disorder-specific functional neurobiological deficits in several anxiety disorders (Etkin and Wager). The main point of this article is that the study of human anxiety disorders has benefited greatly from functional neuroimaging approaches.
*There are still some changes that need to be done and I still need to add some information to the paragraphs.
3 comments:
Your paper is very interesting, i think you still need to finish up some of your ideas. Other than that it looks likes its well set up and very informative. I think its great if we could fight a way to treat any king of phobias in children. Not just phobias from hurricanes because children tend be afraid of many things. Nice Job and good luck getting it all together!!
This is a very interesting topic, especially in third world countries or in any country where earthquakes occur! It's really sad how it could have an affect on the child. Your summaries of the articles look great, and a suggestion for the introduction would be to give a background of why this topic is of interest to you and how you are personally affected but this topic, it would be very "touchy" and deep! Great Job!
Good job Fatma.The summaries of the articles are very well summarized, but you still have to add some examples. You did a good job organinzing your paper but a conclusion would be good! haha good job
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