PSYCH 3B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, Selective Mutism
7 Dec 2018
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A future-oriented emotion characterized by perceptions of uncontrollability and unpredictability over potential aversive events and a rapid shift in attention to the focus of potentially dangerous evens or one"s own affective response to these events. Anxiety future oriented emotion; an elevated apprehension. Fear reaction to immediate or present threat; a reaction to specific stimulus. Worry the cognitive components of anxiety; involving thoughts about possible negative outcomes that are difficult to control. Tripartite model of fear and anxiety: behavioural response, cognitive response, physiological response. Anxiety is part of normal development: children have many more fears than generally appreciated, older children fears are hidden or masked. Across development: fear of strangers -- ~6-9 months of age, fear of imaginary creatures -- ~24 months, fear of the dark -- ~4 years, social fears and failure older children and adolescents. Selective mutism: understand language but anxiety of communicating. Ocd & ptsd: a little separate despite being listed under anxiety disorders.
