The Implications of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) in contemporary women's triple shift workday

Abstract

This article presents a theoretical discussion that is based on the findings made in a work of completion of undergraduate course in the area of Psychology, aiming at the presentation of implications of Generalized Anxiety Disorder in the triple working day of contemporary women. The basis of the research was the bibliographic review with narrative, discursive and qualitative approach, which, in recent decades, has proposed the understanding and evolution of women through struggles and achievements in the labor market. The theoretical discourse has three main milestones: Clara Araujo and Maria Scalon, bring the insertion of women in work and their social conquest. Luria presents the perspective of Neuropsychology in brain dynamics and human behavior and, Judith Beck, the relationship of therapist and patient. The results describe the burden of tasks that women occupy, becoming prone to develop emotional disorders associated with stress, anxiety and depression caused, above all, by physical and psychic overload in the triple working day. Therefore, a complex look emerges that appears mainly in the context of contemporary women, affected by such psychological and physical sufferings. All this directly implies the reorganization of automatic thoughts, central and intermediate beliefs.