DIAGNÓSTICO

The research assistant moves round the class, monitoring how the students are doing the exercise.

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Questions and Answers

At the end of the exercise, Students are expected to ask questions, the research assistant answers the questions and this session or the therapy is terminated.

Week 3 Objectives – The Clients are expected to acquire and rehearse the relaxation skills

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- Exchange of greetings and pleasantries with the students.

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 The activities in the 2^nd week are reviewed by the research assistant together with the students, using question and answer methods. The students briefly go through the relaxation exercise learnt in the second week. The research assistant reminds the students what they did last week on intensive muscle relaxation. The research assistant asks them to practice the exercise again like on eyes, mouth, stomach and hand among others.

 Progressive Muscle Relaxation

 The students are exposed to intensive relaxation training using Jacobson‟s model.

The voluntary muscles are being exposed to tensing and relaxing processes. Here one group of muscle is tensed and at the same time relaxed thus-

 Feet- Attempting to fist the feet and toes together. The students while sitting down on their class chair are made to stretch out their legs forward, with their feet pointing down. The students avoid getting support by not placing their hands on the chair, hanging their hands down relaxing them, while in this position, they will count 10 seconds and release themselves from that position. After which they relax for about 20 seconds by counting 20 seconds.

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 Hands- The students are told to stretch hands forward with the arms fixed into a ball and hold tightly. They count 10 seconds and release the arms and now relax for 20 seconds, by counting the seconds.

 Mouth- The students are asked to open their mouth wide to the extent that it will have the feeling that your mouth is tearing apart.

 You will then have tension in your chin and jaw. At the count of 10 seconds the students release and now relax for about 20 seconds. Secondly they are asked to press their lips tightly in such a manner that they will feel is paining them. Repeat the process for 15 seconds and 25 seconds respectively.

 Buttocks- Imagination of the anal region. The students are instructed to tense the muscles as hard as stone citing the example of their imagining that the anal region is totally closed and tightened getting ready to be injected by a nurse in the hospital. On doing this, the students are asked to count 10 seconds and release themselves and now count 20 seconds relaxing.

 The students are also exposed to other imagination like sitting on a toilet and attempting to defecate, here now the anal region is totally open and the student is applying pressure to remove the fecease. The students are asked to count 15 seconds and release, and now count 25 seconds relaxing.

 Stomach- putting the stomach in resistance and tense situation. The students are asked to imagine that he/she is playing ball and the ball seen moving towards you and wants to hit on your stomach. Put your stomach in tensed to resist. Count 15 seconds and release. Then for about 25 seconds you relax. Secondly push your stomach to form a ball and hold it for about 15 seconds and for about 25 seconds you relax.

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 Neck- Pushing of Neck- The students are directed to push their neck to left side and should not allow their body to follow suit, this they do until they cannot go further. They remain in that position for 15 seconds before returning to the normal position. After which they relax for about 25 seconds. The same is repeated, but now towards the right side, within 15 seconds and 25 seconds respectively.

 Back- The students are meant to stay in a sitting posture with body fold in such a way that the back spines bulge out. At this point the student‟s hands are bent downwards slightly, with the arms crossed to lend weight to the bulging back. As usual to release the students count 15 seconds and relax for 25 seconds.

 Secondly, the students are asked to push the chest out in such a way that they show their chest and pushed out much of somehow something like Furrow is formed along the spines with the head slightly backwards with this the earlier budged spines will go in with the straining of the back shoulder muscles. The process of counting 15 seconds is effected.

Eyes- The students are asked to widely open their eyes, looking strained into air, deeply inward and now count 15 seconds and release the eyes and subsequently relax for 25 seconds secondly. The students are asked to tightly close their eyes in such a way that they are almost seeing stars, during which they count 15 seconds and release now for about 25 seconds they are asked to relax.

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