chapter 14 unit 4- anxiety and related disorders Flashcards
nearly constant exaggerated worries
generalized anxiety disorder
-highly anxious
-sudden intense unexpected panic
panic disorder
persistent excessive unrealistic fears triggered by specific objects or situations
phobias
-psychodynamic
-humanistic
-behavioral
- cognitive
4 major psychosocial perspectives on causes of anxiety disorder
-refers to internal motives, conflicts, and unconscious forces
-person uses rigid defense, mechanisms, and misguided in flexible behavior to prevent a loss of control
-person fears doing something crazy
The psychodynamic approach
- episode in subjective experience, human problems and personal potential‘s
-how do I spell anxiety that feeds on itself?
-anxiety disorders are a result of faulty self image
humanistic approach
-emphasizes observable behavior, and the effects of learning and conditioning
-assumes symptoms of anxiety disorder are learned
-making a response to avoid something unpleasant delays or prevents onset of painful or unpleasant stimulus
behavioral approach
-distorted thinking, causes people to magnify, ordinary, threats and failures, leading to anxiety and distress
-changing, thinking patterns can lessen fears
cognitive approach
-Extreme preoccupation with certain thoughts and compulsive performances of certain disorders 
obsessive, compulsive and related disorders
excessive collecting various things and difficulty discarding them
hoarding disorder
-behavior patterns associated with high levels of fear anxiety brought on by experiencing traumatic stressors
-symptoms similar to anxiety disorder, but caused by a persons specific life circumstances
-usually do not experience nervous breakdown, but suffer adjustment disorder 
trauma and stressor related disorders
Disintegration of consciousness, memory, or self identity
Disassociative disorders
inability to recall one’s name, address or past 
Disassociative amnesia 
sudden unplanned travel away from home and confusion about personal identity 
Disassociative fugue
two more identities or personalities 
Disassociative identity