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From: Ellen-Marie Silverman
Date: 21 Oct 2005
Time: 08:29:29 -0500
Remote Name: 152.163.101.5
Hello. Whether or not, statisticaly speaking, groups of people with stuttering problems experience more of what are labeled anxiety disorders than groups of people without them, you, if you intend to function as a therapist, need to be aware that individual consumers may experience anxiety associated with their stated need to address their symptoms that, if undetected and unmanaged, can sabotage a scripted plan for change. So, it is well to familiarize yourself with means of detection and ways of helping another manage their anxiety that, otherwise, will interfere in subtle and gross ways with treatment. // As a matter of fact, based on my experience, anxiety is almost always present as a potential interference to change in anyone (whether he or she has a stuttering problem or not) who seeks relief from their own and/or a famly member's communication problem. So learning to identify and skillfully manage anxiety in consumers (and, even, yourself) is well worthwhile. Ellen-Marie Silverman