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-The future oriented mood state
-An apprehension about future dangers or misfortunes
-somatic symptoms of tension |
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-The present-oriented mood state
-involves the abrubt activation of sympathetic nervous system
-immediate fight/flight response to danger or threat
-stong avoidance/escape tendencies
-marked nagative affects |
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-Abrupt experience of intense fear or discomfort
-several physical symptoms including breathlessness and chestpains
-fear as an alarm response |
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P.C.T.
expose client to a cluster of introreceptive senes that remind them of their panic attaks |
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Avoidence of internal physical sensations because they are associated with physiological arousal of a panic attack |
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Unwanted and repeated thoughts, feelings, ideas, or sensations |
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Behaviors that make a person feel driven to do something |
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| severe anxiety focused on the possibility of having a serious diesease |
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Extreme long-lasting focus on multiple physical symptoms for which no medial cause is evident |
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Physical Malfunctioning without any physical or organic pathology to account for the malfunction |
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deliberate faking of a physical or psychological disorder motivated by gain |
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Preoccupation with some imagined defect in appearence by someone who looks reasonbly normal |
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your perception alters so that you temporarly lose the sense of your own reality |
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Sense of reality of the external world is lost |
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memory loss revoloves around a specific incident
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What happens in result of the fight or flight system? |
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the activation of amygdala results in immeadiate alarm and escape response(panic) |
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What results from the activation of our Behavioral Inhibition System? |
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| this is activated through signals from the brainstem of unexpected events and causes us to freeze and evaluate the enviornment- which can lead to anxiety |
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What are the symptoms of Generalized Anxiety Disorder? |
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-excessive uncontrollable anxious aprehension and worry
-coupled with strong and persistant anxiety
-persists for 6 or more months
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What are the symptoms for Panic Disorder? |
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-the experience of unexpected panic attaks (false alarms)
-the development of anxeity, worry, or fear about another attack |
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What are symptoms of Social Phobias? |
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-intense, persistent, and chronic fear of being watched and judged by others
-fear of doing things that will embarrass them.
-interfers with ordinary everyday activities |
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What are symptoms of Specific Phobias?
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-Excessice or irrational fears of a specific object or situation
-avoiding the object/situation, or enduring it with great distress
-physical symptoms of anxiety or a panic attack
-anticipated anxiety of up coming events |
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What are symptoms of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder? |
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-obsessions or compulsions that are not due to medical illness or drug use
-obsessions or compulsions that cause major distress or interfere with everyday life |
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What are the symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? |
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- An event that causes:
- repeated "reliving" of the event
- Avoidence and an emotional numbing feeling
- Arousal or a difficulty in concentrating
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Examples of
Generalized Anxiety Disorders |
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Examples of:
Panic Disorder |
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she is avoiding the following situations: waiting in line, drinking alcohol, elevators, movie theatres, driving over bridges, driving on the freeway, flying by plane, and heights
He is finding himself increasingly reliant upon doing things with his wife due to fear he will be unable to get medical assistance
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Examples of:
Social Phobias
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| A man finds it difficult to walk down the street because he’s self-conscious and feels that people are watching him from their windows. Worse, he may run into a person on the sidewalk and be forced to say hello to them. He’s not sure he can do that. His voice will catch, his "hello" will sound weak, and the other person will know he’s frightened |
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Examples of:
Specific Phobias |
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-the fear of dogs, snakes, insects, or mice.
- fear of specific situations, such as flying, riding in a car or on public transportation, driving, going over bridges or in tunnels, or of being in a closed-in place, like an elevator
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checking that you turned the oven off, locked the doors, turned the computer off ect. repeatedly, cleaning obsessively, so much that it interferes with your life, the urge to do something repeatedly or something bad will happen such as changing the radio station three times in each direction or your spouse will die. |
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-She left university 2 years ago after being sexually assaulted while out on a date with a male student she met through class. Since being sexually assaulted she has experienced a variety of symptoms that have not gone away with time.
-John has been experiencing flashbacks of the accident that sometimes cause him to dissociate (he loses track of where he is and feels like he is back at the scene of the accident).
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What are the different types of
specific phobias? |
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Blood-injection-injury
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Situational
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Natural Enviornment
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Animal
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What are the subdivisions of PTSD? |
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Acute. This specifier should be used when the duration of symptoms is less than 3 months.
Chronic. This specifier should be used when the symptoms last 3 months or longer.
With Delayed Onset. This specifier indicates that at least 6 months have passed between the traumatic event and the onset of the symptoms. |
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