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28 Cards in this Set
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Fear |
Nervous system physiological and emotional response to a serious threat |
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Anxiety |
Response to a vague threat or danger |
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General anxiety disorder |
Excessive and persistent feeling of anxiety...(free float anxiety) |
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Biofeedback |
Client is given info about phys reactions as they occur and learn to control reactions |
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Criteria for phobia |
Persistent unreasonable fear of object activity etc |
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Phobia and classical conditioning |
Associate 2 situations that occur closely in the time with fear response |
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Systematic desensitization |
Use relaxation & fear hierarchy to help clients with phobia react calmly |
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Flooding |
Exposed repeatedly & intensively to a feared object &I made to see it's harmless |
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Panic attack |
Panic that occurs and occurs suddenly within minutes and gradually passes |
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Panic disorders |
Anxiety disorder marked by recurrent and unpredictable panic attacks |
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Agoraphobia |
Public places/situations |
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Social Anxiety Disorder |
Social or performance situations in which embarrassment may occur |
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Obsession |
Persistent thought/idea,impulses cause anxiety |
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Compulsion |
Rigid/repetitive behavior |
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OCD |
When obsessions and compulsions take over |
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Stressor |
An event that creates a sense of threat by confronting a person w/ a demand or opportunity for change (pos+neg stressors) |
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Stress response |
Persons reaction to stress |
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Sympathetic |
Physiological response in the body that are associated with arousal and fear |
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Parasympathetic |
Maintains normal organ functioning |
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Acute Stress Disorders |
Fear and related symptoms are experienced soon after a traumatic event & last less than a month |
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PTSD |
After long traumatic event fear and related symptoms continue over a period of time |
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Eye Movement Desensitization |
Clients move eyes in a rhythmic manner from side to side while flooding Their minds with images of things they normally avoid |
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Psychophysiological Disorders & examples |
Illness in result from an interaction of psychosocial & organic favorites...asthma, migraines, hypertension |
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Type A & B |
Type a more hostile Type b calm |
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Facticious Disorders |
Fakes or induce physical symptoms to play sick role |
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Conversion Disorders |
Unexplained bodily symptoms affect voluntary motor/sensory skills (wake up blind the day you have a driving test) |
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Somatic symptoms disorder |
Excessive distress/concern about bodily symptoms |
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Munchausen Syndrome |
Long term factitious disorder where a person produces symptoms goes to hospital and receive treatments |