PSYCHOLOGY

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PSYCHOLOGY

• Anxiety Disorders

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Bell ringer/Notes

• Make a 7 column chart in your notebook for broad
  categories of disorders examples of specific
  disorders with in each broad cat.
• Anxiety Disorders
• Dissociative Disorders
• Somatoforms Disorders
• Psychosomatic disorders
• Personality Disorders
• Mood Disorders
• Schizophrenia Disorders

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Anxiety Disorders

• Anxiety Disorders
• distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive
  behaviors that reduce anxiety
• (avoidance of anxiety seems to motivate abnormal
  behavior)

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Anxiety Disorders

• 1. Generalized Anxiety Disorder
• person is tense, apprehensive, and in a state of
  autonomic nervous system arousal

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Anxiety Disorders

• 2. Panic Disorder
• episode of intense dread
• a person experiences terror accompanying chest
  pain, choking, or other frightening sensation

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Anxiety Disorders

• 3. Phobia
• persistent, irrational fear of a specific object
  or situation
• 4. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - OCD
• unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or
  actions (compulsions)

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Anxiety Disorders

• Common and uncommon fears

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Anxiety Disorders
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Anxiety Disorders

• PET Scan of brain of person with Obsessive/
  Compulsive disorder
• High metabolic activity (red) in frontal lobe
  areas involved with directing attention

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Anxiety disorders

• Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Haunting memories
• Nightmares insomnia
• Social withdrawal
• jumpy

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Explaining anxiety disorders

• 1. Learned behaviors
• Conditioning observational learning
• Biological
• Evolutionary
• Genes
• Brain

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Video clips

• DVD
• OCDs
• Phobias