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What is a specific phobia? |
Extreme irrational fear, avoidance, or impairment
Ex. Blood injury injection phobia. People see needles or blood and they immediately faint.
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What is the prevalence of specific phobias for people in a lifetime? What is the general age of onset? |
12.5% of people have a specific phobia in their lifetime. It is generally started in childhood and is 4x more common in women vs. men. |
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What is social anxiety disorder? |
Extreme fear of social scrutiny and fear of judgement in social situations.
During socialization they must be fearful, distressed or become avoidant. |
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How is behavior therapy used to treat anxiety disorders? |
Behavior therapy can use classical conditioning by pairing neutral stimuli with something that elicits a desired response OR
Operant conditioning can use reinforcement to force the person to stay in an anxiety provoking situation until the anxiety is gone. |
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What is exposure therapy? |
Exposing a person to what they fear
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What does spaced vs. massed exposure focus on? |
The duration of the exposure. Spaced would be exposing in increments and massed would be all in one session.
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What is vivo vs. imaginal exposure? |
Vivo would be exposing a person to something in real life and imaginal would be having a person imagine the fear/simulating the fearful situation. |
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What is flooding desentization? |
Flooding is starting at the worst case scenario and then progressing to less serious situations. |
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What is systematic desensitization? |
Systematic is progressing from the least anxiety provoking situation to the most stressful. |
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How can you make exposure therapy the most effective? |
Increasing the level of therapist involvement and generally mass exposure is better.
Relaxation and breathing does not generally make the anxiety go away. |
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What are the 5 general criteria for PTSD? |
Trauma exposure Flashbacks, repeated experiences Avoidance of once normal behaviors Negative mood Tense/Reactive *Must continue 1 month post-trauma |
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What is stress inoculation training? (SIT) |
Giving people coping mechanisms for when a stressful event occurs. Supportive counseling and unconditional positive regard.
Used for PTSD |
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What is Edna Foa's treatment method for PTSD? |
Prolonged exposure - recounting the traumatic events so many times that there is a decreased emotional response |
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What is obsessive compulsive disorder? |
OCD includes obsessions that are intrusive and nonsensical. They are uncontrollable thoughts/urges.
The compulsion aspect is the behavior or rituals that provide relief from the obsession. |
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Body Dysmorphic Disorder |
Excessively concerned with a perceived defect.
Issues with weight or body fat are not included, but it can be about muscles. |
