{"id":4189,"date":"2018-09-18T17:12:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T21:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/?p=4189"},"modified":"2019-05-26T00:22:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T04:22:04","slug":"anxiety-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/abnormal-psychology\/anxiety-disorders\/","title":{"rendered":"Anxiety Disorders"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Associated with twice the average rate of medical costs, higher risk of cardiovascular disease, twice the risk of suicidal ideation and attempt<\/p>\n
Clinical Description of Anxiety Disorders<\/strong><\/p>\n 1) Symptoms interfere with important areas of functioning or cause marked distress<\/p>\n 2) Symptoms are not caused by a drug or a medical condition<\/p>\n 3) Symptoms persist for at least 6 months or at least 1 month for a panic disorder<\/p>\n 4) The fear and anxieties are distinct from the symptoms of another anxiety disorder<\/p>\n Specific Phobias<\/p>\n Depersonalization<\/strong> = a feeling of being outside one\u2019s body<\/p>\n Agoraphobia<\/p>\n Generalized Anxiety Disorder<\/p>\n Comorbidity in Anxiety Disorders<\/p>\n Highly comorbid with other disorders (75%)<\/p>\n Gender<\/p>\n Culture<\/p>\n Fear Conditioning<\/p>\n Genetic Factors<\/p>\n Neurobiological Factors: The Fear Circuit and the Activity of Neurotransmitters<\/p>\n Personality: Behavioural Inhibition and Neuroticism<\/p>\n Behavioural inhibition<\/strong> = tendency to become agitated and cry when faced with novel toys, people, or other stimuli<\/p>\n Cognitive Factors<\/p>\n Etiology of Specific Anxiety Disorders<\/strong><\/p>\n Etiology of Specific Phobias<\/p>\n Etiology of Social Anxiety Disorder<\/p>\n Etiology of Panic Disorder<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Behavioural Factors: Classical Conditioning<\/p>\n Etiology of Agoraphobia<\/p>\n Etiology of GAD<\/p>\n Treatment of Anxiety Disorders<\/strong><\/p>\n Common focus: exposure<\/p>\n 1) Exposure should include as many features of the feared objects as possible<\/p>\n 2) Exposure should be conducted in as many different contexts as possible<\/p>\n Psychological Treatments of Specific Anxiety Disorders \uf0b7 Psychological Treatment of Phobias:<\/p>\n Medications That Reduce Anxiety<\/p>\n Benzodiazepines<\/strong> e.g. Valium, Xanax & antidepressants<\/strong> e.g. SSRIs, serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors <\/strong>(SNRIs)<\/p>\n Medication to Enhance Learning During Psychological Treatment<\/p>\n Anxiety = apprehension over an anticipated problems Fear = a reaction to immediate danger Both fear and anxiety can involve arousal or sympathetic nervous system activity *both can be… Continue Reading Anxiety Disorders<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[104],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4908,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions\/4908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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