characteristics of phobias Flashcards

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introduction-phobias

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• Anxiety Disorder
• Excessive/irrational fear and anxiety, triggered by an object or a situation.
• The extent of the fear is completely out of all proportion to the actual stimulus.
• Conscious avoidance of the stimulus.

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types of phobias

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• Specific Phobias
• Fears about specific objects or situations.
• Spiders | snakes | the dark

• Social Phobia
• Anxiety relating to social situations.
• Public speaking / taking to a group of people | using a public toilet.

• Agoraphobia
• A fear of being in situations where escape might be difficult or that help wouldn’t be available if things go wrong.

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characteristics of phobias

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behavioural, emotional, cognitive

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behavioural characteristics of phobias

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-panic
-avoidance
-freeze

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emotional characteristics of phobias

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excessive and unreasonable:
-fear
-anxiety
-panic

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cognitive characteristics of phobias

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To do with thoughts.
• Selective attention to the stimulus
• Irrationality of thoughts and resistance to reason.
• Recognition that fear is excessive.
-cognitive distortions-see stimulus as more frightening as is

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