PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Victor Emerson

Document Summary

Psychological disorder: deviant distressful and dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feeling or behaviors. Medical model: the concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated and in most cases, cured often through treatment in a hospital. Dsm-iv-tr: the american psychiatric association"s diagnostic and statistical. Manual of mental disorders, fourth edition, with an update text revision : a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders. Anxiety disorder: psychological disorders characterization by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety. Generalized anxiety disorder: an anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal. Panic disorder: an anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable, minutes-long episode of intense dread in with a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking or other frightening sensations. Phobia: an anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation.