The role of expressive art therapy and neurofeedback assessments in improving clinical hypnosis adherence among anxiety sufferers

• Main Author: Yong, Koo Kian
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English; English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: R Medicine (General)
• Online Access: https://etd.uum.edu.my/10202/1/s902864_01.pdf; https://etd.uum.edu.my/10202/2/s902864_02.pdf; https://etd.uum.edu.my/10202/

Despite worldwide concern on anxiety, preventive measures in public health industries remain scarce. Among the issues raised by previous research, therapeutic adherence is a vital component that increases the treatment efficacy of anxiety sufferers. The polyvagal theory-focused intervention is suggested to effectively deal with the adherence issue associated with anxiety concerns by addressing the broad biopsychosocial perspectives. This research intended to generate polyvagal-focused therapeutic guidance in line with anxiety sufferers. The researcher uses polyvagal theory informed expressive art therapy and neurofeedback assessment. The assessment identifies issues among anxiety sufferers. These interventions may be helpful or not helpful to the processes as well as the empirically examined outcomes of the intervention. In addition, it examined both the beneficial and the unhelpful moderating factors of intervention impacting clinical hypnosis adherence. This research utilised the qualitative method with the grounded theory approach. Study samples scored either 8 in the Anxiety subscale or 15 in the Stress subscale of Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21). The respondents were selected through the snowball sampling method and analysed through semi-structured in-depth interviews for data collection after the intervention. About forty-five participants were involved in generating the outcome of this study. The findings showed that therapeutic adherence enhanced by this study's polyvagal-focused therapeutic guideline framework. This study also identified that expressive art therapy, neurofeedback, and clinical hypnosis are helpful interventions in improving anxiety. Furthermore, the researcher proposes the therapeutic clinical hypnosis guideline protocol for individuals with anxiety sufferers. The study's implications potentially offer a practical, innovative approach to therapeutic guidance development for enhanced anxiety sufferers' adherence through interventions (from early preventive stages) to deter full-fledged anxiety intricacies.