phobic disorders

Question 1

define

Answer 1

situational irrational fear + avoidance behaviour to that situation

Question 2

3 types of phobia

Answer 2

agoraphobia
specific phobia
social phobia

Question 3

define specific phobia

Answer 3

fear to a specific situation,animals,diseases,pill,injections, doctors n etc
- patient resorts to avoidance (negative behaviour) to prevent anxiety attacks

Question 4

social phobia

Answer 4

excessive fear of social performance in front of familiar or unfamiliar people in which the individual fears scrunity,ridicule,embrassment and humiliation by them.
AKA social anxiety disorder