Anxiety

Emotional state with

1) psysiological arousal

2) unpleasant feelings of tension

3) and sense of Apprehension/foreboding

Anxiety Disorder

Excessive/maladaptive anxiety reactions

-Features:

1) Physical features

2) Behavioral features

3) Cognitive features

Repeated intense anxiety/panic

-stronger physical components than other anxiety reactions

Excessive, irrational fear of open/public places

Excessive, irrational fear.

Specific Phobia

Phobia specific to an object or situation.

Social Phobia

Excessive fear of social interactions/situations.

Two-Factor Model

Theoretical model of development of phobic reactions on basis of classical and operant conditioning.

Systematic Desensitization

Behavioral therapy to overcome phobia through exposure to progressively more fearful stimuli while being relaxed.

Fear-Stimulus Hierarchy

Ordered series of increasingly fearful stimuli.

Gradual Exposure

Behavioral therapy through overcoming fears by stepwise process of exposure to increasingly fearful stimuli in imagination or real-life situations.

Flooding

Behavioral therapy to overcome fears by exposure to high levels of fear-inducing stimuli.

Virtual Reality Therapy

Exposure therapy by presenting phobic stimlu in virtual reality environment.

Cognitive Restructuring

Cognitive therpay involving replacement of irrational thoughts with rational alternatives.

OCD

Type of anxiety disorder with recurrent obsession, compulsions, or both.

Obsession

Recurring thought/image that person can't control.

Compulsion

Repetitive/ritualistic behavior where person feels compelled to perform.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

General feelings of dread/foreboding and heightened states of bodily arousal.

Acute Stress Disorder

Traumatic stress reaction occruing after the month following exposure to traumatic event.

PTSD

Prolonged maladaptive reaction to a traumatic event.

Eye movement desensitization and prerocessing

(EMDR)

Controversial form of therapy for PTSD involving eye tracking of visual target while holding images of the traumatic experience in mind.

Dissociative Disorder

Disorder with disruption, or dissociation, of identity, memory, or consciousness.

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

- person had two or more dinstint or later personalities.

Dissociative Amnesia

Person experiences memory loss w/o any identifiable organic cause.

Dissociative Disorder

One suddenly flees from life situation, travels to new location, assumes a new idetity and has amnesia for person material.

Depersonalization

-Feelings of unreality or detachment from one's self or on's body

Derealization

Sense of unreality about outisde world.

Depersonalization Disorder

Disorder characterized by persistant/recurrent episdoes of depersonalization.

Somatoform Disorder

Complaints of physical problems and symptoms that can't be explained by physical causes.

Malingering

Faking illness in order to avoid work/duty

Factitious Disorder

Intentional fabrication of psychological/physical Sx for no apparent gain.

Conversion Disorder

Somatoform disorder characterized by loss or impairment of physical function in the absense of any aparrant oganic causes

Hypochondriasis

Misenterpretation physical symptoms as signs of underlyn serious disease

Body Dysmorphic Disorder

(BDD)

Preoccupation with an imagined/exaggerated physical defect of appearance.

Pain Disorder

Psychological factors are presumed to play a significant role in the development, severity, or course of chroni pain.

Somatization Disorder

Repeated multiple complaints that can't be explained by physical causes.

Culture-bound somatoform disorder, found primarily in China in which people fear that their gentials are shrinking