Section 18-19 Flashcards
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Person is anxious but cant be traced
DSM-5 6 months of excessive worry
Panic disorder
Characterized by panic attacks
Phobias
Irrational fear of an object or situation
Specific phobia
(Fears of object or events)
Lifetime prevalence is 12.5%
Social phobia
(Fear of public embarrassment)
Public speaking
Lifetime prevalence is 12.1%
PTSD
Experience arousal long after trauma has passed
Ex. War veterans
OCD
Obsessive: a persistent upsetting thought
Compulsive: a repeated behavior that temp. reduces anxiety
Treatment for anxiety disorder
Behavioral (exposure) therapy
Exposing the person to the stimulus causing the anxiety
Schizophrenia
A disorder of disturbed behavior, speech, thought, and emotion
Starting point for Schizophrenia
Males: develop in late teens
Females: show mid 20’s
What does positive and negative mean
Positive does not mean good
Negative does not mean bad
Positive symptoms
Made known by its presence
- subject is doing something tht is not normal
Delusions
False beliefs that you have
(Persecution and grandeur)
Persecution
People are out to get you
Grandeur
False beliefs that you are better than everyone
Hallucinations
Seeing things that are not there
Speech and thought
Their patterns are disturbed
Negative symptoms
Made known by their absence
Flat affect
Emotion is flat (no highs or lows)
If they do show emotion it is inappropriate
Types of Schizophrenia
Paranoid
Disorganized
Catatonic
Undifferentiated
Paranoid
Thinks everyone is out to get them
Usually more aggressive
Disorganized
Primary symptoms are speech and thought
Catatonic
Disorder of movement
Shows two movements, extreme
- wild mobility
- striking a pose and standing motionless for hours
Undifferentiated
Symptoms do not put in any other categories
