Chapter 6

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Anxiety

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A general feeling of apprehension about possible danger

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Anxiet disorders

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Group of disorders that share obvious symtomps and features of fear and anxiety.

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Neurotic behavior

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Anxiety-driven, exsagerated use of avoidance behaviors ad defense mechanisms

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Neurosis

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A term historically used to characterize maladaptive behavior resulting from intrapsychic conflict marked by prominent use of defense mechanisms

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Fear or Panic

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Is a bsic emotion that involves activation of the "fight or flight" respnse of the sympathetic nervous system.

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Neuroticism

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A proneness to expirience negative mood states

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Phobia

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Is a persistent and dispoportionate fear of some specific object or situation that presents little or no actual danger and yet leads to a great deal of avoidance

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Specific Phobia

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When a person shows strong and persistent fear that is excessive or unreasonable and its trigered by a specific object or situation.

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Blood-injection-injury phobia

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Persistent and diproportionate fear of the sight of blood or injury or the possibility of having an injection. Afflicte persons are likely to expirience a drop in blood pressure and sometimes faint.

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Exposure Therapy

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The best treatment for specific phobias. involves controlled exposures to the stimuli or situatiations that elicit phobic fear

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Social Phobia (Social anxiety disorder)

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It is characterized by disabling fears of one or more specific social situation

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Generalized social phobia

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People with this disorder have a significant fear of most social situations

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Panic disorder

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occurence of repeated unexpected panic attacks often accompanied by an intense fear of having another one.

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Aggoraphobia

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Fear of being in places or situations where panic attack may occur and frm which escape may be physically difficult or psychologically embarasing, or in which immideate help would be unavailable in the event that mishap occured

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Panic Provocation Agent

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A variety of biological challenge procedures that provoke panic attacks at higher rates in people with panic disorders than in people without panic disoders

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Amygdala

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Is a collection of nuclei in front of the hippocampus in the limbic system of the brain that is critically involved in the emotion of fear.

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Anxiety sensitivity

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A personality trait involving a high level of belief that certain bodily symtomps may have harmful consequences

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Clinically significant

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Reflects how large the effects of a particular treatment or interventions are with respect to how much meaningfull change they provide in a person's level of functioning

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder(GAD)

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Chronic excessive worry about a number of events or activities, with no specific threat present accompanied by restlessnes, fatigue, difficulty, irritability, muscle tension, sleep disturbance.

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Interoceptive fears

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Fear of various internal bodily sensations

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

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Is defined by the occurence of unwanted and intrusive thoughs or disturbing images; these are usually accompanied by compulsive behavior that are performed to neutralize the obssesive thoughts or images or to prevent some dreaded event or situation.

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Obsessions

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Involve persistent and recurrent intrusive thoughts, images or impulses that are expirienced as disturbing or inapropriate.

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Compulsions

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Overt repetative behaviors such as hand washing, or more covert mental acts, such as counting or praying, that a person feels driven to perform in response to an obssesion.