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Week 8: Anxiety Disorders Flashcards

1
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What is anxiety?

A

A normal and adaptive response that triggers our fight or flight response

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How is having an anxiety disorder different to healthy anxiety?

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The anxiety is more intense and interfears with every day functioning

  • can cause panic attacks
  • intrusive thoughts
  • unrealistic threat
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3
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Roughly how many people in Western society struggle with anxiety at some point in their lives?

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30-40%

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4
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What is the anxiety focus in specific phobia?

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A specific trigger makes us anxious

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What is the anxiety focus in social phobia?

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Social or performance situations

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What is the anxiety focus in panic disorder?

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Repeated and uncontrolable panic attacks

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What is the anxiety focus in generalised anxiety disorder?

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Continuing aprehension about future events leading to chronic worry

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What is the anxiety focus in OCD?

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Recurrent obsessions or compulsions that are time consuming and cause distress

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What is the anxiety focus in PTSD?

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Persistent anxiety related symptoms after witnessing a traumatic event

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10
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What are some emotional commonalities between healthy anxiety and anxiety disorders?

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Anxiety
Fear
Apprehension

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What are some behavioural commonalities between healthy anxiety and anxiety disorders?

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Avoidence
Safety seeking
Insomnia 
Over eating
Interpresonal issues
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What are some cognitive commonalities between healthy anxiety and anxiety disorders?

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Catastrophising
Fortune telling
Selective attention
Preservation

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What is meant by the cognitive action of ‘fortune telling’?

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Thinking you know how an event is going to turn out so discounting other possabilities

Can lead to a self fufilling prophecy

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What is meant by the cognitive action of ‘preservation’?

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Being unable to switch out of a state of high vigilence

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What social factors can contribute to anxiety?

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Life experience
Trauma
Modelling
Peer group

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16
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What biological factors can contribute to anxiety?

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Gender
Reactivity to stress
Preservation

17
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What psychological factors can contribute to anxiety?

A

Cognitive processes
Beliefs
Self-view
Self-efficacy

18
Q

What personality factors can contribute to anxiety?

A

Neuroticism
Low extraversion and conscientiousness
Perfectionism
Attachment anxiety

19
Q

What are the two common treatment routes?

A

Behavioural - desensitisation

Cognitive - reattribution

20
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What is a panic disorder?

A

Recurrent, unexpected panic attacks
Followed by either a relentless fear of facing another attack, changes in behaviour in an attempt to avoid a further attack

21
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What is the definition of a panic attack?

A

Sudden, rapid increase in anxiety

Accompanied by at least 4 of the 13 somatic or cognitive symptoms that escalate within 10 minutes

22
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What are the physical symptoms of a panic attack?

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Palpitations, breathlessness, dizziness, depersonalisation, sweating, choking and trembling

23
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What are the cognitive symptoms of a panic attack?

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Fear of dying, suffocating and going crazy

24
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What is the definition of an obsession?

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Intrusive and recurring thoughts, impulses and images that can be disturbing and uncontrollable.

25
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What is the definition of a compulsion

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Repetitive, ritualised behaviour aimed at preventing the feared outcome

26
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What biological factors influence the development of OCD?

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Genes, heritable personality traits such as neuroticism and anxiety

27
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What psychological factors influence the development of OCD?

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General beliefs characterised by ‘better safe than sorry’ and an inflated sense of responsibility

28
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What social factors influence the development of OCD?

A

Critical incident such as the flu or their own health

29
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What is an issue with testing the effectiveness of CBT in anxiety?

A

Samples and procedures in control trials rarely resemble real life clients due to comorbidity, motivation to change and the method of intervention

30
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What is acceptance and commitment therapy?

A

Still under the umbrella of CBT but based more on recovery as opposed to the disease model
Aimed to alter the way people relate to thoughts
Enhancing engagement in meaningful life areas

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