ABPSY CHAPTER 5 Flashcards
a mood state characterized by marked negative affect and bodily symptoms of tension in which a person apprehensively anticipates future danger or misfortune; may involve, feelings, behaviors, and physiological danger
anxiety
the emotion of an immediate alarm reaction to present danger or life-threatening emergencies
fear
sudden overwhelming terror
panic
abrupt experience of intense fear of discomfort accompanied by a number of physical symptoms, such as dizziness or heart palpitation
panic attack
brain circuit in the limbic system that responds to threat signals by inhibiting activity and causing anxiety
behavioral inhibition system (BIS)
brain circuit in animals that when stimulated causes an immediate alarm and escape response resembling human panic
fight
anxiety disorder characterized by intense, uncomfortable, uncontrollable and continuous worry tht is distressing and unproductive, accompanied by physical symptoms of tenseness.
generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
recurrent unexpected panic attacks accompanied by concern about future attacks or a lifestyle to change to avoid future attacks
panic disorder
anxiety disorder characterized by anxiety about being in place or situations from which escape might be difficult in the event of panic symptoms or other unpleasant physical symptoms
agoraphobia
cognitive-behavioral treatment for panic attack involving gradual exposure to feared somatic sensations and modification of perceptions and attitudes about them
pain control treatment
unreasonable fear of a specific object or situation that are markedly interfere with daily life functioning
specific phobia
unreasonable fear and avoidance of exposure to blood, injury, or the possibility of an injection victims experience fainting and a clop in blood preassure.
Blood-Injection-Injury Phobia
an anxiety involving enclosed places or public transportation
Situational Phobias
fear of situations or events in nature, especially heights, storms, and water.
Natural Environment Phobias
unreasonable, enduring fear of animals of insects that usually develops early in life
animal phobias
excessive, enduring fear in some individuals that harm will come to them or their loved ones when they are apart
Seperation Anxiety Disorders
extreme, enduring, irrational.
Fear and avoidance of social or performance situations
Social Anxiety, Disorder (SAD) / Social Phobia
enduring, distressing emotional disorder that follows exposure to severe helplessness or a fear inducing
threat- the victim reexperiences the trauma, avoids stimuli associated with its and develops a numbing of responsiveness and an increased vigilance and arousal
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
severe reaction immediately Following a terrifying event, often including amnesia about the event, emotional numbing, and derealization’- if symptoms persist beyond one month, victims are dragnesed
with posttraumatic stress disorder
Acute Stress Disorder
prolonged adaptation to loss associated with intense longing for and preoccupation with the deceased, leading difficulty moving on with life even after a year or more has passed
Prolonged Grief Disorder
clinically significant emotional and behavioral
symptoms in response, to one or
more specific stressors
Adjustment Disorders
developmentally inappropriate behaviors in which a child is unable or unwilling to form normal attachment relationships with caregiving adults
“Attachment Disorders
attachment disorder in which a child with disturbed behavier neither seeks aut a garegiver nor. responds to offers of help from one; fearfulness and sadness are often evident
Reactive Attachment Disorder
concition in which a child. shows no inhibitions whatsoever in approaching adults
Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder
disorder inuduing urwanted, persistent, intrusive thoughts and impulses, as well as repetitive actions intended to suppress them.
• Obsessive - Cumpulsive Disorder
recurrent intrusive thoughts or impulses the client seeks. to suppress or neutralize while recognizing they are not imposed by. outside forces.
Obsessions
repetitive, ritualistic, time consuming behaviors or mental acts a person feels driven to perform to suppress obsessions
Compulsions
disorder featuring a disruptive preoccupation with some imagined defect in appearance (“ imagined ugimess”) - now classified among obsessive -compulsive and related disorders. previously grouped with DSM-IV somatoform disorders
Body Dysmorphie Disorder (BDD)
people’s urge to pull out their own hair from anywhere
in the body, including the scalp, eyebrows, and arm
Trichotillomania
recurrent, difficult-tu control picking of one’s skin leading to significant impairment or distress
Excoriation
