Abnormal Psych: Ch 4

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Anxiety

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A negative mood state characterized by bodily symptoms of physical tension and by apprehension about the future

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Fear

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Emotion of an immediate alarm reaction to present danger or life-threatening emergencies

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Panic

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Sudden, overwhelming fright or terror

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Panic Attack

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Abrupt experience of intense fear or discomfort accompanied by several physical symptoms, such as dizziness or heart palpitations

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Behavioral Inhibition System (BIS)

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Brain circuit in the limbic system that responds to threat signals by inhibiting activity and causing anxiety

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fight/flight system (FFS)

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Brain circuit in animals that when stimulated causes an immediate alarm-and-escape response resembling human panic

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

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Anxiety disorder characterized by intense, uncontrollable, unfocused, chronic, and continuous worry that is distressing and unproductive, accompanied by physical symptoms of tenseness, irritability, and restlesness

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Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia (PDA)

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Fear and avoidance of situations the person believes might induce a dreaded panic attack

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Agoraphobia

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Anxiety about being in places or situations from which escape might be difficult

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Panic Disorder without Agoraphobia (PD)

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Panic attacks experienced without development of agoraphobia

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Panic Control Treatment (PCT)

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Cognitive behavioral treatment for panic attacks, involving gradual exposure to feared somatic sensations and modification of perceptions and attitudes about them

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Specific Phobia

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Unreasonable fear of a specific object or situation that markedly interferes with daily life functioning

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Blood-injury-injection Phobia

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Unreasonable fear and avoidance of exposure to blood, injury, or the possibility of an injection. Victims experience fainting and a drop in blood pressure.

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Situational Phobia

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Anxiety involving enclosed places or public transportation

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Natural Environmental Phobia

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Fear of situations or events in nature, especially heights, storms, and water.

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Animal Phobia

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Unreasonable, enduring fear of animals or insects that usually develops early in life.

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Separation Anxiety Disorder

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Excessive, enduring fear in some children that harm will come to them or their parents while they are apart.

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Social Phobia

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Extreme, enduring, irrational fear and avoidance of social or performance situations.

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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

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Enduring, distressing emotional disorder that follows exposure to a severe helplessness- or fear-inducing threat. The victim reexperiences the trauma, avoids stimuli associated with it, and develops a numbing of responsiveness and an increased vigilance and arousal.

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Acute Stress Disorder

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Severe reaction immediately following a terrifying event, often including amnesia about the event, emotional numbing, and derealization. Many victims later develop posttraumatic stress disorder.

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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

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Anxiety disorder involving unwanted, persistent, intrusive thoughts and impulses, as well as repetitive actions intended to suppress them

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Obsession

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Recurrent intrusive thought or impulse the client seeks to suppress or neutralize while recognizing it is not imposed by outside forces

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Compulsion

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Repetitive, ritualistic, time-consuming behavior or mental act a person feels driven to perform