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Anxiety Disorders (Identify main diagnostic features of specific anxiety…
Anxiety Disorders
Identify main diagnostic features of specific anxiety-related disorders
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
6 months of excessive worry
5.7% have had this during lifetime
More days than not
Why does this happen?
Use it to gain control over uncontrollable
These people worry to avoid feeling distressed - it distracts them
Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia
Triggers fight or flight
Avoidance and internal bodily or somatic cues
External cues can trigger panic
When people avoid cues, its called agoraphobia
4% of population has had this
Specific phobias
4 Major subtypes
Blood-injury-injection
Situational type (runs in families)
natural environment
animal
(other)
Social Anxiety Disorder
Not just shyness, person avoids the situations
Can come from kids getting punished
PTSD
OCD
Compulsions must take over an hour a day
Was originally anxiety disorder
thought-action fusion, people freak out about thoughts
Treatment
Drugs can be habbit forming
CBT is effective long term
Identify key vulnerabilities for developing anxiety and related disorders
Partially genetic, but not wholly
Stressors
Relationship between anxiety and anxiety disorders
Anxiety can be good, helps us plan for the future, but oo much can get ya
Differentiate between disordered and non-disordered functioning