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Definitions

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Anxiety – an emotional state characterised by physiological arousal, unpleasant feelings of tension and a sense of apprehension or foreboding
Anxiety disorders – psychological disorders characterised by excessive or maladaptive anxiety reactions

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Anxiety disorders are…..

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Extremes of normal anxiety
Evidence of autonomic nervous system dysregulation - excessive, inappropriate or deficient
Common
Lifetime prevalence 15 -20%

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Types of anxiety disorder

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Panic Disorder
Agoraphobia
Social Anxiety Disorder (previously social phobia)
Specific Phobias
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Selective Mutism
Separation Anxiety Disorder
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CHANGES TO DSM CHPT 5

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The DSM-5 chapter on anxiety disorder no longer includes obsessive-compulsive disorder (which is included with the obsessive-compulsive and related disorders) or posttraumatic stress disorder and acute stress disorder (which is included with the trauma- and stressor-related disorders). However, the sequential order of these chapters in DSM-5 reflects the close relationships among them.

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Shared features of anxiety disorders

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Primarily stress linked
Reality testing remains intact
Symptoms are experienced as distressing
Disorders tend to be enduring or recurrent

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Aetiology of anxiety disorders

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Genetic
SLC6A4; short version transports serotonin less effectively (see Smoller et al., 2009)
Lowered neurotransmitter levels
5HT, NA, GABA
Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis dysregulation

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Anxiety affects our……

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Physiological
Behavioural
& Cognitive
…………….functioning

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Parasympathetic Nervous SystemFeed and Breed

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ANABOLIC PROCESS

Decreased: cardiac rate and output, BP,
respiration rate, glycogenolysis,
peripheral diversion of blood,
catecholamines and cortisol.

Increased: gut function, kidney function,
immune surveillance, fat stores,
sex steroids

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Sympathetic Nervous SystemFight or Flight

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CATABOLIC PROCESS

Increased: cardiac rate and output, BP,
respiration rate, glycogenolysis,
peripheral diversion of blood,
catecholamines and cortisol.

Decreased: gut function, kidney function,
immune surveillance, fat stores,
sex steroids

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Fight or Flight”

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Physiological response to a stressor is mediated through the hypothalamus

Initial activation of the sympathetic nervous system

Subsequent activation of the pituitary adrenal axis

Terminated by negative feedback and the parasympathetic system

NB ACTH is adrenocorticotropic hormone

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Selye’s General Adaptation Syndrome (1946)

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ALARM: fight or flight response
RESISTANCE: mobilisation of defences and adaptive responses.
EXHAUSTION: collapse of adaptive responses resulting in health problems.

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Amygdala and Neurotransmitters

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Amygdala responds to emotional stimuli
Produce changes in the HPA axis and sympathetic ns.
GABA inhibits anxiety by modulating the amygdala and hypothalamus synapses e.g. benzodiazepines and alcohol act on same receptors.
Serotonin and beta-blockers also have an effect on anxiety

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Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

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Delayed or protracted response to trauma (often involving threat to life)
Onset usually within 6 months of event
Core symptom is “reliving the event”
Flashbacks, nightmares, waking dreams
Emotional numbness and detachment
Avoidance of activities, situations that remind person of trauma

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Symptoms of PTSD

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Increased autonomic arousal (including exaggerated startle response, hypervigilance and sleep disturbance)

Avoidance & emotional numbing

Re-experiencing (flashbacks & nightmares)

Lifetime prevalence of 3-8%

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DSM-IV-TR Diagnostic Criteria for PTSD

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The person has been exposed to a traumatic event
The traumatic event is persistently re-experienced
Persistent avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma and numbing of general responsiveness
Persistent symptoms of increased arousal
Duration of the disturbance is more than 1 month
The disturbance causes clinically significant distress or impairment

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Traumatic events that may precipitate PTSD

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Rape (90% develop PTSD symptoms)
Torture (70-90%)
Prisoners of war (>50%)
Earthquake & flood (20-25%)
Road traffic accidents (15%)
		(Davey, 2014)
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It’s not all bad news though…

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> 50% of people will 
    experience at least one trauma in 
    their lifetime – not all will develop
    PTSD
Following trauma, women are 
    more likely to develop PTSD 
    than men (ratio of 2.4:1)
Some will experience post-
     traumatic growth (Joseph, 2012 )
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Post-traumatic growth

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Enhanced relationships

Altered self-view

Altered life philosophY

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The aetiology of PTSD

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Vulnerability factors
Theory of shattered assumptions
Conditioning theory
Emotional processing theory
Mental defeat
Dual representation theory
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Theory of shattered assumptions

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Argues that trauma will shatter a person’s belief in the world as a safe place
Individual is left in a state of shock and conflict
However, paradoxically it is those who already view the world as an unsafe place that are most likely to develop PTSD (Resick, 2001)

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Vulnerability factors

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What makes people vulnerable to developing PTSD?
Tendency to take personal responsibility for the trauma
Environmental factors such as unstable family life
A family history of PTSD
Existing high levels of anxiety or a pre-existing psychopathology

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Conditioning theory

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Trauma (UCS) becomes associated with situational cues associated with the place and time of the trauma (CS) (Keane et al., 1985)
PTSD is therefore a conditioned fear reaction to cues associated with the trauma
However, does not explain why some people who experience trauma do not develop PTSD

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Emotional processing theory

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Trauma creates a representation of the trauma in memory that is associated with situational cues (Foa et al., 1989)
Explains how fear memories are laid down and activated in fear networks in the brain
Has given rise to influential exposure treatments for PTSD

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Dual representation theory

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Views PTSD as a hybrid disorder involving two separate memory systems (Brewin, 2001; Dalgleish, 2004)
The verbally accessible memory (VAM) system consciously processes memories of the event
The situationally accessible memory (SAM) system records information that is too brief to take in consciously
The SAM system is responsible for the vivid uncontrollable flashbacks experienced in PTSD

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Mental defeat

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A frame of mind that makes individuals vulnerable to PTSD (Ehlers & Clark, 2000)
Individuals who develop PTSD tend to:
See themselves as a victim
Process information about the trauma negatively
View themselves as unable to act effectively
Do not believe they have the coping skills to overcome the traumatic experience
Believe the trauma has permanently changed their life

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PTSD management includes

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SSRIs
Behavioural therapy
Stress innoculation training
Trauma focused CBT *
Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) *
Debriefing after traumatic event *
no clear evidence base for this
Narrative exposure therapy *
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Trauma focused CBT

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See Ehlers & Clark (2000)

Psycho-education
Exposure; imaginal and/or In vivo
Reliving with cognitive restructuring
Behavioural experiments 
Drop safety behaviours
Stimulus discrimination
Experience emotions
Imagery work
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EMDR

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Developed by Francine Shapiro in the 1980s
Involves bilateral stimulation of the brain whilst recalling the traumatic event (dual attention)
Aims to desensitise the client to distress and reprocess ‘frozen’ traumatic memories so that the associated cognitions can become more adaptive - adaptive information processing Shapiro, 2007)
Works towards the installation of a positive cognition

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Debriefing

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A structured way of trying to intervene immediately after trauma to prevent the development of PTSD
Also called Critical Incident Stress management (CISM) (Everly et al., 2000)
A form of post-event counselling for victims
Limited evidence that it is effective in preventing PTSD (McNally et al., 2003)

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Narrative Exposure Therapy

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Development of testimony therapy (Cienfuegos & Monelli, 1983)
A short term approach
Developed for use with people who have experienced a series of traumatic events, resulting in PTSD (Schauer et al., 2005)
Aims to enable a coherent and meaningful narrative of events to be developed, influencing fear networks
Has been adapted for use with children – KIDNET (Onyut et al., 2005)

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