Phobias/Phobic Anxiety Flashcards by Jack Adams | Brainscape

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Phobic Anxiety/Phobias

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anx relation to particular circumstance (just 1 theme).
avoids situation, anticipatory anx, specific/simple phobia (spider, snake, heights).
general phobia- (social phobia).

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Evol sig

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fear that is on avg adaptive in ancestral enviro may be maladaptive under modern conditions.

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Treatment

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Behavioural Therapy (BT)- for simple phobia.

- or Drug Therapy for general phobias.

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