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Include disorders that share features of excessive fear and anxiety and related behavioral disturbances.

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Anxiety Disorders

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Emotional response to real or perceived imminent threat; trigger is present

Immediate alarm reaction to danger.

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Fear

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Anticipation of future threat

Negative mood state characterized by bodily
symptoms of physical tension and by apprehension about the future

No basis, subjective, related to depression

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Anxiety

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Abrupt surge of intense fear or intense discomfort that reaches a peak within minutes and during which time 4 or more of 13 physical and cognitive symptoms occur.

Abrupt surges of intense fear or intense discomfort that reach a peak within minutes, accompanied by physical and/or cognitive symptoms

Abrupt experience of intense fear or acute
discomfort, accompanied by physical symptoms that usually include heart palpitations, chest pain, shortness of breath, and, possibly, dizziness.

Feature prominently within the anxiety disorders as a particular type of fear response.

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Panic attack

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Sudden overwhelming reaction

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Panic

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2 basic types of panic attack

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Expected (cued)
Unexpected (uncued)

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Panic attacks where there is an obvious cue or trigger, such as a situation in which panic
attacks have typically occurred.

If you know you are afraid of something, you might have a panic attack in these situations but not anywhere else

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Expected (cued) panic attack

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Panic attack for which there is no obvious cue or
trigger at the time of occurrence—that is, the attack appears to occur from out
of the blue.

What might be experienced if you don’t have a clue when or where the next attack will occur.

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Unexpected (uncued) panick attack

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System that is closely related with anxiety

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Limbic system

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How much distress a person can tolerate.

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Distress tolerance

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Inability to feel pressure

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Anhedonia

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General tendency to respond fearfully to anxiety symptoms.

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Anxiety sensitivity

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3 vulnerability in the Triple Vulnerability Theory

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Generalized Biological Vulnerability
Generalized Psychological Vulnerability
Specific Psychological Vulnerability

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A vulnerability where a tendency to be uptight or high-strung might be inherited.

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Generalized Biological Vulnerability

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A vulnerability where you end up believing the world is dangerous and out of control and you
might not be able to cope when things go wrong based on your early experiences

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Generalized Psychological Vulnerability

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A vulnerability where you learn from early experience that some situations or objects are fraught with danger

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Specific Psychological Vulnerability

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Co-occurrence of two or more disorders in a single individual

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Comorbidity

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Meaning of DSM-5-TR

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision

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Developmentally inappropriate and excessive fear or anxiety concerning separation from those to whom the individual is attached

Characterized by children’s unrealistic and persistent worry that something will happen to their parents or other important people in their life or that something bad will happen

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Separation Anxiety Disorder

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Persistency of Sepanx

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Children & Adolescents: 4 weeks
Adults: 6 months or more

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Treatment for Sepanx

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Talk therapy
Play therapy

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Disorder characterized by a consistent failure to speak in social situations in which there is an expectation to speak (e.g., school) even though the individual speaks in other situations.

Lack of speech in one or more settings in which speaking is socially expected.

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Selective Mutism

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Duration of disturbance of Selective Mutism

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At least 1 month

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Disorder characterized by fearful or anxious about or avoidant of circumscribed objects or situations.

Irrational fear of a specific object or situation that markedly interferes with an individual’s ability to function.

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Specific Phobia

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5 types of Specific Phobia

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Animal
Natural Environment
Blood-injection-injury
Situational
Others

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Persistence of Specific Phobia

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6 months or more

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4 ways of acquiring a phobia

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Direct experience
Experiencing false alarm
Observing someone else
Being told about danger

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Treatment for Specific Phobia

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Exposure Therapy
Systematic Desensitization

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Fear or anxiety is circumscribed to the presence of a particular situation or object

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Phobic Stimulus

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Individual intentionally behaves in ways that are designed to prevent or minimize contact with certain things or situations

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Active avoidance

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Disorder characterized by marked fear or anxiety about one or more social situations in
which the individual is exposed to possible scrutiny by others.

Individual is fearful or anxious about or avoidant of social interactions and situations that involve the possibility of
being scrutinized.

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Social Anxiety Disorder

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Specifier if the fear in SAD is restricted to speaking or performing in public.

Individuals have performance fears that are typically most impairing in their professional
lives (e.g., musicians, dancers, performers, athletes) or in roles that require
regular public speaking.

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Performance only

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Persistence of SAD

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6 months or more

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Other term for SAD

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Social Phobia

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Recurrent unexpected panic attacks and is persistently concerned or worried about having more panic attacks or changes his or her behavior in maladaptive ways because of the
panic attacks

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Panic disorder

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Refers to more than one unexpected panic attack

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Recurrent

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Waking from sleep in a state of panic

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Nocturnal Panic Attack

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Persistency of Panic Disorder

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1 month or more

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Means that the time to peak intensity is literally only a few minutes.

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Within minutes

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Attacks that meet all other criteria but have fewer than four physical and/or cognitive
symptoms

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Limited-symptom attacks.

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Disorder characterized by fearful and anxious in many different situations, and the diagnostic criteria require symptoms in two or more of the
following: using public transportation, being in open spaces, being in enclosed places, standing in line or being in a crowd, or being outside of the home alone in other situations

Fear and avoidance of situations in which a person feels unsafe or unable to escape to get home

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Agoraphobia

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5 situations in Agoraphobia

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Using public transportation
Being in open spaces
Being in enclosed spaces
Standing in line or being in a crowd
Being outside of the home alone

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Persistency of Agoraphobia

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6 months or more

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Persistent and excessive anxiety and worry about various domains, including work and
school performance, that the individual finds difficult to control.

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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Persistency of GAD

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More days than not for at least 6 months,

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Disorder characterized by anxiety due to
substance intoxication or withdrawal or to a medication treatment.

Panic attacks or anxiety is predominant in the clinical picture.

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Substance/medication-induced anxiety disorder

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3 specifiers of Substance/medication-induced anxiety disorder

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With onset during intoxication
With onset during withdrawal
With onset after medication use

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If criteria are met for intoxication with the substance and the symptoms develop
during intoxication.

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With onset during intoxication

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If criteria are met for withdrawal from the substance and the symptoms develop
during, or shortly after, withdrawal.

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With onset during withdrawal

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If symptoms developed at initiation of medication, with a change in use of medication, or during withdrawal of medication.

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With onset after medication use

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Panic attacks or anxiety is predominant in the clinical picture.

Clinically significant anxiety that is judged to be best explained as a physiological effect of another medical condition.

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Anxiety Disorder Due to Another Medical
Condition

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Used in situations in which the clinician chooses to communicate the specific reason that the presentation does not meet the criteria for any specific anxiety disorder.

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Other Specified Anxiety Disorder

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Used in situations in which the clinician chooses not to specify the reason that the criteria are
not met for a specific anxiety disorder and includes presentations in which there is insufficient information to make a more specific
diagnosis

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Unspecified Anxiety Disorder

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