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Position ShiftTaylor Hayden
Content Overview• Before position shift• Initial change• After position shift• Ways of communicating the shift• Communication to different audiences• Reactions• Looking back• Works cited
“Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish,
be educated out.”-Karl Augustus
Menninger
Before• Childhood fear of the dark
• Irrational- no reasoning behind fear
• Superstitions
• Grown out
Change• Ski trip fall• Emergency room• Shattered heel• Transfer to specialist• Condroblastoma tumor• Multiple procedures
After• Fear of anything medical
• Effect
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Phobias
Oral communication
• Brief explanation
•Detailed story
Physical Communication
• Severe caseso Adrenaline rush
o Aggression
• Body language:o Clammy hands
o Shaky voice
o Occasional passing out
Friends/Family• Explanation
• “You don’t get it”
• Try to make comparison
Professional Setting• Explanation
• Vivid details
• Doctors notes
• Disability forms
Others Reactions/ Responses
• Doctorso Concerned
• Familyo Embarrassed
• Nurseso annoyed
Latrophobia• Medical phobia ofoDoctorsoHospitalsoBloodoneedles
Professionals View• Resistant to extinction
• A result of classical conditioning
• Behavior therapy is known to be successful
How I would do it differently…
• Seek help
• Research
• Keep calm
“Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out”
-Karl Augustus Menninger
Childhood fears are, for the most part, grown out of. Does a more rational fear, such as mine, have the ability to be grown-out-of as well?
Works Cited• "22 Inspirational Quotes on Fear." 22 Inspirational Quotes on
Fear. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Oct. 2012. <http://www.positivityblog.com/index.php/2007/05/11/22-inspirational-quotes-on-fear/>.
• Google Images
• "The Phobia List." The Phobia List. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Oct. 2012. <http://phobialist.com/>.
• Seligman, Martin. "Phobias and Preparedness." (n.d.): n. pag. Rpt. in Behavior Therapy. 3rd ed. Vol. 2. N.p.: Elsevier, n.d. 307-20. Google Scholar. Web. 2 Oct. 2012. <http://http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005789471800643>.