How It Applies To Mental Health Issues

Question 1

What mental health issues could this model be useful with?

Answer 1

• depression
• anxiety
• substance abuse

Question 2

Example of how anxiety could be applied to the model

Answer 2

If a person has social anxiety and is put in a situation where they have to go into a public/social setting they could:

Situation selection - can choose whether they will enter the situation
Situation modification - if they do enter the situation, try to think positively
Attention deployment - attempt to focus on the more positive aspects of the experience, such as why they needed to do the situation, what will they get out of it
Cognitive change - change the way they interpret the meaning of the situation