Social Phobia and Panic Attacks

Question 1

6 months; almost always occurs
Fear/anxiety of social situations in which the person is being observed or has to perform

Answer 1

Social Phobia

Question 2

3 types of social phobias

Answer 2

1. Social interaction
2. Observed (public eating)
3. Performing (public speaking)

Question 3

Social phobia patients also have a fear of

Answer 3

showing anxiety symptoms

Question 4

How do social phobia patients handle their fear stimuli?

Answer 4

Avoidance with impairment or tolerated with distress

Question 5

Is social phobia common?

Answer 5

Yes

Question 6

What are the specific causes of anxiety? (3)

Answer 6

1. Dysfunctional cognitions/beliefs
2. Catastrophic beliefs
3. Attention focusing

Question 7

Overestimating the likelihood of consequences

Answer 7

Dysfunction cognitions

Question 8

“looking stupid, getting rejected, offending someone, etc. will be AWFUL” is an example of

Answer 8

catastrophic beliefs

Question 9

Focus on the threat (self focused or on others actions)

Answer 9

Attention

Question 10

What are the full causes of social phobia? (think more scientific)

Answer 10

1. conditioning
2. Prepared learning
3. Safety behaviors

Question 11

Early aversion to social experiences (like embarrassing ourselves as a kid)

Answer 11

conditioning

Question 12

Learn to quickly fear critical, rejecting, angry faces

Answer 12

Prepared learning

Question 13

Avoid situations/eye contact; cope with substance use or be silent

Answer 13

Safety behaviors

Question 14

Why are safety behaviors bad?

Answer 14

They allow patients to never learn that the feared outcome WON’T happen

Question 15

What is abrupt experience of intense fear?

Answer 15

Panic attack

Question 16

Symptoms of a panic attack

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Increased HR, chest pain, sweating, etc. (any sympathetic response)

Question 17

Panic attack patients cognitively believe that

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they are losing control/their mind

Question 18

Two types of panic attacks

Answer 18

1. Expected/cued
2. Unexpected/un-cued

Question 19

Attacks that can be predicted due to phobias/environments

Answer 19

Expected/cued

Question 20

Random attacks that are unpredictable

Answer 20

Unexpected/un-cued

Question 21

People who have panic attack disorder have (unexpected/expected) panic attacks

Answer 21

Unexpected

Question 22

What is the clinical description of panic attack disorder?

Answer 22

Recurrent unexpected panic attacks

Question 23

What are the two required symptoms of panic disorder (one of two)?

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1. Persistent concern about additional attacks/consequences
2. Significant maladaptive change in behavior related to the attacks

Question 24

What are the 3 associated characteristics with Panic disorder?

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1. Avoidance
2. Drugs/alcohol
3. Interoceptive avoidance

Question 25

What is agoraphobia?

Answer 25

Fear of the marketplace (crowds)

Question 26

What is avoidance in panic attacks?

Answer 26

Fear/avoidance of situations in which a person feels unsafe or unable to escape

Question 27

The avoidance of inherited sensation

Answer 27

Interoceptive avoidance

Question 28

What are the specific causes of panic attack disorders? (4)

Answer 28

1. Avoidance of interoceptive cues
2. Conditioning
3. Anxious apprehension/ hypervigilance

Question 29

Extinction learning in panic disorders do no occur if they avoid

Answer 29

interoceptive cues