Anxiety Awareness Online Course

Key Learning Points:

• Gain an understanding of anxiety, its relevance in our lives and its definition.
• Compare anxiety and stress
• Look at the possible external causes of anxiety, including external and environmental causes, past trauma and grief
• Also look at work related anxiety and possible coping strategies
• Consider sleep deprivation and the consumption of stimulants as a possible cause.
• Study inherited causes of anxiety
• Learn how to distinguish between worry and anxiety.
• Look at the physical symptoms
• Study cognitive, affective and behavioural anxiety symptoms
• Understand Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and look at the impact it can have
• Look at GAD in children and adolescents
• Move on to study OCD, its definition, impact and common examples of obsessions and compulsions
• Continue with a more in-depth study of OCD, including looking at OCD spectrum disorders and facts about OCD and its causes
• Discover the definition, cause, treatment and physiology of panic attacks. Also, look at agoraphobia
• Learn all about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) including definition, history, treatment and symptoms
• Develop your understanding of social anxiety disorder, its symptoms, triggers and causes, and how it differs from shyness
• Look at different types of anxiety therapies and treatments, both in the UK and abroad.

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Anxiety disorders such as anxiety, phobias and OCD account for some of the most common mental health problems in the world. With an estimated one in four people affected at some point, this course boats the perfect opportunity to learn about this common and existing issue.

The course has been designed to increase the awareness of the causes, symptoms and treatments of anxiety, to help you better understand the conditions that fall under the anxiety umbrella.