Anxiety disorders Flashcards

Question

Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD)

Answer 1

Fearful, anxious, or avoidant of social situations that involve the possibility of being scrutinized -pronounced, disproportionate, repeated anxiety about social situations in which the individual could be exposed to scrutiny by others -fear of being negatively evaluated or offensive to others -exposure to social situation almost always produces anxiety -avoidance of feared situations

Answer 2

-PYP: 8% -Lifetime Prev: 14% -Often begins in late childhood or adolescence and persists into adulthood -40% seek treatment -More extreme symptoms will more likely persist and if participant has temperament that supports inhibition -often report low quality of life

Answer 3

-People who have never been married -Divorced -Not completed post-secondary -Low SES -Chronic condition -Low social support -More common in caucasians

Answer 4

-Dysfunctional belief -Perfectionism in society -Socially undesirable -Socially unskilled/inadequate -Behaviour will lead to catastrophic events -No control over anxiety in social situations -Anxiety of anticipation and dread of social situations -Dread and inhibition

Answer 5

-Modelling behaviours indicative of social avoidance -Helicopter parenting

Answer 6

-underlying genetic propensity to be shy -increased sensitivity or possible instability of ANS -prepared learning -people with social anxiety tend to pay attention to negative cues tend to interpret ambiguous situations more negatively -some children more socially inhibited

Answer 7

periodic/short bouts of panic that occur suddenly, reach a peak within minutes and gradually pass -heart palpitations -tingling in hands/feet -shortness of breath -sweating -hot and cold flashes -trembling -chest pains -choking sensations -faintness -dizziness -feelings of unreality

Answer 8

Avoidant behaviours occur as a result of panic attacks. Fear of open spaces, scared to be out in the world for fear of not being able to escape -unforseen panic attacks occur repeatedly -at least a month of continual concern

Answer 9

-PYP: 3.1% -LP: ~5% -Late adolescence into early childhood -59% seek treatment -Lower in non-western countries -can wane and wake

Answer 10

-Individuals with PD tend to have parents with anxiety or mood disorder

Answer 11

-Panic circuit ; unstable PNS

Answer 12

-Higher reports of people with PD with children who experienced sexual/physical abuse. First panic attack linked to environmental stressor and can become more generalized

Answer 13

-Overall negative affectivity (mood), early exposure to cigarette smoke, misinterpretation of body signals -More likely to feel body sensations -Avoidance behaviours begin to occur with misinterpretation of panic signals

Answer 14

-A reoccurrence of unwanted, obsessive intrusive thoughts -Repeated ritualistic actions or mental compulsions designed to neutralize an unwanted thoughts -basic themes of contamination, violence, orderliness, religious themes, sexuality -no pleasure arises from mental acts -often develop over time -cleaning, checking, order, balance, touching, verbalizing, counting

Answer 15

-Increased first rates among immediate parents, monozygotic high prevalence of heritability

Answer 16

-Head injury, brain tumour, infection -Unstable or overreactive peripheral nervous system -SSRI's, SNRI's

Answer 17

-High degrees of perfectionism -overestimate the threat of negative consequences -overimpulsion of thoughts or thought control, negative outcome is controlled by behaviour -Belief system is arbitrary and can change outcomes -memory

Answer 18

-Some kind of psychological stressor that occurs -reassurance component

Answer 19

-exposure with response prevention, gradual and somewhat extreme

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