PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
8 Nov 2016
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Introspective avoidance: when a person with an anxiety disorder avoids certain stimuli or activities to avoid anxiety-like arousal. (ie. exercise, spicy food) Acute stressor disorder is ptsd symptoms occurring for less than a month, if it persists for more than a month it is diagnosed as ptsd. Exposure therapy: avoiding an aversive is teaching you that there is something to be feared. This type of exposure makes the client realize the lack of a threat. Clinicians are reluctant because they feel it is cruel. But with consent is shouldn"t be considered mean or cruel. Dsm5 was the first to divide anxiety disorders into strict anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders, trauma and stressor related disorders. Ptsd is trauma that causes intrusive symptoms, altered cognitions and mood, persistent avoidance, and increased arousal and reactivity. Exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence in one or more of the following ways:
