Therapies have come a long way to help those with neurological, psychological, or

neurodevelopmental disorders. Provide two cognitive and two pharmacological therapies

you believe are the most promising and why. Identify what disorders they are designed to
help.
These days anxiety is growing in adults as well as teenagers and sometimes this illness
affects children also. If a person has a habit of worrying too much and has racing thoughts and
panic attacks, then certainly that person is suffering from anxiety disorder. I have chosen
therapies to treat anxiety disorder. These therapies can be the best way to treat any neurological,
psychological, or neurodevelopmental disorders.
The therapies are sometimes used separately, and in some cases they both are used
together as cognitive behavioral therapy to get good results (Bandelow et al., 2012). These two
therapies are used to challenge wrong thought processes; in this therapy, people are asked about
their thoughts, especially when they are having these symptoms. People are asked how they feel
when they are having panic attacks, or what they are thinking when they feel worried. After
knowing the history of the patient, therapists convince patients to change the way they think and
think in a positive manner. They are asked to change the racing thoughts into positive and
pleasing thoughts immediately.
To treat anxiety disorders, there are two selective therapies used in pharmalogical
therapies. The first treatment is called Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI) and
Serotonin-norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors (SNRI) (Carlson, 2013). These two drugs are very
popular for treating anxiety disorders, mostly of any type. These are the pharmalogical agents
which are prescribed for anxiety disorder, with lesser side effects. These pharmalogical agents
can give quick results, when cognitive therapy may take time.
For myself, the most promising therapy could be cognitive and behavioral therapy,
because it does not have any side effects from the medicine and it is a very safe therapy. With
pharmalogical agents, it may give quick results but comes with dangerous side effects and it is
only treating the symptoms not the illness root cause; while on the another hand, cognitive
behavioral therapy may take some time but it is safe and it may cure the illness forever.
References
Bandelow, B., Sher, L., Bunevicius, R., Hollander, E., Kasper, S., Zohar, J., & Moller, H. (2012).
Guidelines for the pharmacological treatment of anxiety disorders, obsessive
compulsive disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder in primary care. International
Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, 16, 77-84. Retrieved November 6, 2014, from
http://www.wfsbp.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Treatment_Guidelines/Bandelow_et_al_01.
pdf
Carlson, N. R. (2013). Physiology of behavior. (11th ed.). Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon