Jania is a 21-year-old woman who attends college part-time while working full-time hours at her local Kroger. Jania is seeking counseling due to difficulty sleeping, low mood, and periods of what she describes as an agitated energy. Jania also reports worrying about a lot of different things. What she worries about shifts from topic to topic through time; as examples: her finances, her families' health, her grades, and general likeability/acceptance. Jania is seeking help as recently her grades have started to drop and she believes her anxiety is affecting her ability to focus on schoolwork and exams.   1) What disorder(s) is it? Assign one or more of  the anxiety disorder diagnoses and explain your reasoning. (This is a provisional diagnosis as you have very limited information.) 2) What are two possible etiologies? Please state them and explain why you believe they are possible causes. 3) What treatment do you recommend, and why? state it specifically and to give an explanation

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Jania is a 21-year-old woman who attends college part-time while working full-time hours at her local Kroger. Jania is seeking counseling due to difficulty sleeping, low mood, and periods of what she describes as an agitated energy. Jania also reports worrying about a lot of different things. What she worries about shifts from topic to topic through time; as examples: her finances, her families' health, her grades, and general likeability/acceptance. Jania is seeking help as recently her grades have started to drop and she believes her anxiety is affecting her ability to focus on schoolwork and exams.

 

1) What disorder(s) is it? Assign one or more of  the anxiety disorder diagnoses and explain your reasoning. (This is a provisional diagnosis as you have very limited information.)

2) What are two possible etiologies? Please state them and explain why you believe they are possible causes.

3) What treatment do you recommend, and why? state it specifically and to give an explanation

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Anxiety disorders are prevalent in today's world. It is one of the most common disorder, some are having generalized anxiety disorder, some have Obsessive-Compulsive disorder and so on. A person can develop this disorder at any stage in his life. 

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