CHAPTER 4: Anxiety Disorders, OCD and Related Disorders Flashcards
What is the Central nervous system’s physiological and emotional response to a serious threat to one’s well-being:
A) Fear
B) Anxiety
C) Generalised Anxiety Disorder
A) Fear
What is the Central nervous system’s physiological and emotional response to a vague sense of threat or danger?
A) Fear
B) Anxiety
C) Generalised Anxiety Disorder
B) Anxiety
What is the Disorder marked by persistent and excessive feelings of anxiety and worry about numerous?
A) Fear
B) Anxiety
C) Generalised Anxiety Disorder
C) Generalised Anxiety Disorder
What is fear?
Central nervous system’s physiological and emotional response to a serious threat to one’s well-being
What is anxiety?
Central nervous system’s physiological and emotional response to a vague sense of threat or danger
What is generalised anxiety disorder?
Disorder marked by persistent and excessive feelings of anxiety and worry about numerous
How many percent of the U.S adult population experiences one of the six DSM-5 anxiety disorders?
A) 20
B) 18
C) 33
D) 57
B) 18
What is the Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) checklist?
- For 6 months or more, the person experiences disproportionate, uncontrollable, and ongoing anxiety and worry about multiple matters
- The symptoms include at least three of the following: edginess, fatigue, poor concentration, irritability, muscle tension, sleep problems
- Significant distress or impairment
What does the sociocultural perspective state about who is most likely to develop GAD?
GAD is most likely to develop in people faced with dangerous ongoing social conditions
What are examples of forms of societal stress?
Poverty
Race and ethnicity
What is the most common anxiety disorder among young children?
Separation anxiety
What does Freud state about anxiety in children?
He stated that all children experience anxiety
What are the three anxieties that children experience according to Freud?
- Realistic Anxiety
- Neurotic Anxiety
- Moral anxiety
What are the two main examples of psychodynamic therapies?
- Free Association
- Therapist interpretations of transference, resistance, and dreams
What are the 3 specific treatments for GAD?
- Freudians focus less on fear and more on control of id
- Object-relations therapists attempt to help patients identify and settle early relationship problems
- Short-term psychodynamic therapy is more effective
What does the humanistic perspective state about GAD?
GAD arises when people stop looking at themselves honestly
and acceptingly
What is Carl Rogers’ explanation for GAD? (Humanistic Tradition)
- Lack of unconditional positive regard in childhood leads to conditions of worth (i.e., harsh self-standards)
- Threatening self-judgments break through and cause anxiety, setting the stage for GAD to develop
What does the humanistic perspective state about client-centered approach and GAD?
Client-centered approach used to show unconditional positive
regard for clients and to empathize with them
What does the cognitive-behavioural perspective state about psychological disorders?
• Problematic behaviors and dysfunctional thinking often cause psychological disorders
What are the newer explanations in the cognitive-behavioural perspective of GAD?
- Meta cognitive theory (Wells) and meta-worries
- Intolerance of uncertainty theory (Koerner and colleagues)
- Avoidance theory (Borkovec)
What is the Meta cognitive theory (Wells) and meta-worries?
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What is the Intolerance of uncertainty theory (Koerner and colleagues)?
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What is the Avoidance theory (Borkovec)?
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What are the three cognitive-behavioural therapies?
- Ellis’s rational-emotive therapy (RET)
- Mindfulness-based cognitive-behavioral therapy
- Acceptance and commitment therapy
