Anxiety Disorders - Chapter 16!
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| constellation of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral symptoms that create distress, disability/dysfunction, or danger | ||
| feeling of intense anxiety | ||
| type of anxiety disorder that is an intense or irrational fear coupled with great effort to avoid feared object | ||
| fear directed at particular objects | ||
| quick pulse, increased bp, sweating, tremors | ||
| learning to relax | ||
| genetics, cultural factors, life experience | ||
| emerges in childhood or early adolescence known as fear of social things | ||
| public speaking and interactions with people | ||
| occurrence of unexpected attacks with episodes of terrifying bodily symptoms: labored breathing, choking, dizziness, tingling hands, trembling | ||
| recurrent unexpected attacks and behavioral or psychological trouble follows | ||
| feels like having a heart attack or dying | ||
| fear of situation where help is not available or escape may be difficult or embarrassing | ||
| genetics, major life transitions, severe stress, death of loved one | ||
| CBT- focuses on thinking patterns and behaviors that are sustaining or triggering attacks | ||
| learning to cope with panic while actually experiencing it | ||
| hypersensitivity to locus coerulus, strong activation of right relative to frontal lobe | ||
| not related to anything specific, worry about generally everything | ||
| feel inadequate, oversensitive, cannot concentrate, insomnia, rapid heartbeat, irregular breathing, sweating, diarrhea | ||
| recurrent obsessions and compulsions that interfere with life | ||
| recurrent irrational thoughts | ||
| repetitive or ritualistic acts to deal with obsession, irresistible, reduces anxiety | ||
| begins in early childhood/early adulthood and half will still have it 40 years later | ||
| caudate nucleus of the basal ganglia that usually stops repetitive behaviors like recurrent thoughts, serotonin plays unspecific role | ||
| marked by flashbacks and recurrent thoughts of a psychological distressing event outside the range of usual human experience | ||
| nightmares and recalling traumatic events, flashbacks | ||
| hard to concentrate, problems falling asleep, extreme response to startling | ||
| actively avoiding people, places, etc related to trauma | ||
| feeling bad when you survived and others did not | ||
| rape, combat, accidents, witnessing a homicide, encountering devastation of natural disaster or terrorist attack | ||
| psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior | ||
| treatment for phobias | ||
| an operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats (treatment for anxiety and phobia) | ||
| Cognitive Behavior Therapy | ||
| Treatment involving the combination of behaviorism (based on the theories of learning) and cognitive therapy (based on the theory that our cognitions or thoughts control a large portion of our behaviors). | ||
| SSRI/SNRI- selective serotonin re uptake inhibitors or norepinephorine re uptake inhibitors | ||
| therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight | ||
| treatment that strengthens social skills and targets interpersonal problems, conflicts, and life transitions |