Anxiety disorder

Question 1

Phobia

Answer 1

• irrational fear that is frequent, persistent, apprehension towards a particular place, object or creature.
• specific,social,generalied
• agrophobia
• haemophobia
• koumpounophobia

Question 2

Explanations

Answer 2

• Behavioural (Watson and Rayner)
• Psychoanalytic (Freud)
• Biomedical/Genetic(Ost)
• Cognitive (Dinardo)

Question 3

Treatments

Answer 3

• Systematic Desensitiation(Wolpe)
• Applied Tension (Ost)
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Ost and Westling)

Question 4

BIPI

Answer 4

• Blood Injury Phobia Inventory
• 18 situations including blood and injection
• scale of 0-3 the frequency of each symptom

Question 5

GAD-7

Answer 5

• Generalized Anxiety Disorder
• screening test for further referral
• 7 items
• 0-3 for each item

Question 6

Systematic Desensitisation

Answer 6

• Wolpe

- reciprocal inhibition: the impossibility of two strong and opposing emotions simultaneously

Question 7

Applied Tension

Answer 7

-Ost
-30 patients from the same hospital
-18-60
19 women 11 men
-3 groups
-applied tension: 5 sessions
-applied relaxation: 9 sessions
-combined: 10 sessions
-similar improvements
-73% showed noticeable improvement in all grps
-applied tension the most effective

Question 8

CBT

Answer 8

• Ost and Westling
• compare the effectiveness of CBT to applied relaxation
• panic disorder
• newspaper advertisements and psychiatric referrals
• no significant difference
• no relapses