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Anxiety, OCD, and Related Disorders Flashcards

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Fear

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the central nervous systems physiological and emotional response to a serious threat to one’s well being

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Anxiety

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the central nervous systems physiological and emotional response to a vague sense of threat or danger

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

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experience general and persistent feelings of worry and anxiety
- free-floating anxiety
- women diagnosed with this disorder outnumber men, 2:1

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GAD: Sociocultural Perspective

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most likely to develop in people that face ongoing dangerous societal conditions
- strongest force is poverty
- can also be caused by widespread contagious diseases

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GAD: Psychodynamic Perspective

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anxiety due to inadequate ego defence mechanisms
- overprotecting parents cause weak defence mechanisms when older

treatment
- free association
- therapists interpretations of transference, resistance, and dreams

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GAD: Humanistic Perspective

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GAD happens when people stop looking at themselves honestly and acceptingly
- children who fail to receive unconditional positive regard may become self critical and develop harsh standards, called conditions of worth
- treatment is client centred therapy

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GAD:Cognitive-Behavioural Perspective

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development of basic irrational assumptions

metacognitive therapy- suggest people with GAD hold both positive and negative beliefs about worrying

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Meta-worries

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worrying about worrying

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Intolerance of Uncertainty Theory

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individuals cannot tolerate the knowledge that negative events may occur
- biologically based

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Avoidance Theory

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people with GAD have greater bodily arousal and worrying serves to reduce this arousal

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Rational-emotive therapy

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point out the irrational assumptions held by clients, suggest more appropriate assumptions, and assign homework that gives the clients practice at challenging old assumptions and applying new ones

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Break Down Worrying

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  • educate the clients about the role of worrying in their disorder
  • clients observe their bodily arousal
  • clients are to appreciate the triggers of their worrying
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

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mindfulness based cognitive -behavioural therapy

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GAD: Biological Perspective

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says anxiety is biological; family having it increases probability of you developing it

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Benzodiazepines

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provides relief from anxiety
- certain neurons have receptors that receive the benzos

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Gamma-aminobutyric Acid (GABA)

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a neurotransmitter whose low activity in the brains fear circuit has been linked to anxiety

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Fear Circuit

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prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, ínsula, and amygdala, a small almond-shaped brain structure that usually starts the emotional ball rolling
- hyperactive in those with GAD

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Sedative-Hypnotic Drugs

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drugs that calm people in low doses and helps them fall asleep in higher doses

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Antidepressants

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drugs that are usually used to lift the moods of depressed persons
- increase activity of serotonin and norepinephrine

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Antipsychotics

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commonly given to people with schizophrenia and other forms of psychosis, are also helpful to some individuals with more severe and treatment-resistant generalized anxiety disorder

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Agoraphobia

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fear of travelling to public places

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Classic Conditioning

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a process of learning by temporal association in which two events that repeatedly occur close together in time become fused in a persons mind and produce the same response

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Modelling

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a process of learning through imitation of other actions

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Preparedness

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a predisposition to develop certain fears

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Systematic Desensitization

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exposure treatment that uses relaxation training and a fear hierarchy to help clients with phobias react calmly to the objects or situations they dread

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Flooding

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client exposed repeatedly and intensively to feared objects and made to see that it is actually harmless

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Social Anxiety

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afraid of social or performance situations in which they might become embarrassed
- causes by maladaptive assumptions
- treated by medication ie; benzos and antidepressants
- also treated by cog-behav therapy

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Social Skills Training

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a therapy approach that helps people learn or improve social skills and assertiveness through role-playing and rehearsing of desirable behaviours
- model, role-play, rehearse, feedback, and reinforce

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Panic Disorder

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recurrent attacks of terror; common in those with anxiety

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Panic Attacks

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periodic, short bouts of panic that occur suddenly, reach a peal within minutes, and gradually pass
- anti-depressants help

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Biological Challenge Tests

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a procedure used to produce panic in participants or clients by having them exercise vigorously or perform some other potentially panic-inducing task in the presence of a researcher or therapist

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OCD

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individuals feel overrun by recurrent thoughts that cause anxiety or by the need to perform certain repetitive actions to reduce anxiety
- characterized by obsessions and compulsions

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Obsessions

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a persistent thought, idea, impulse, or image that is experienced repeatedly, and causes anxiety

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Compulsions

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a repetitive and rigid behaviour or mental act that a person feels driven to perform in order to prevent or reduce anxiety

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OCD: Biological

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cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical circuit is hyper active in those with OCD
- hyperactive thalamus which leads to increased anxiety and attention towards this sensation

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Trichotillomania

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hair pulling disorder

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Excoriation Disorder

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skin-picking disorder

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OCD Treatment

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  • antidepressants particularly SSRI’s to increase serotonin
  • expose and response prevention; expose them to situations which activate their obsessions starting with the least anxiety provoking to the most and then prevent them from acting upon the compulsion
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Cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical circuit

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network connecting the cortex, striatum, and the thalamus
- has a direct (positive feedback loop) and indirect (regulatory loop)
- OCD is when these pathways are imbalanced

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Illness Anxiety

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persistent anxiety about ones health
- treatment can include anti-depressants, exposure therapy, and response prevention

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