Position Shift

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>.