PSYCH 2AP3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Separation Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder
21 Nov 2018
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1: general anxiety disorder: excess anxiety produced from everyday situations, separation anxiety disorder: common in children. Another most common disorder: panic disorder: panic attacks after stressful situations you can"t control, agoraphobia: occurs after a panic attack and being scared to have another one. 2 fear of choking, dying: chest pain, nausea and abdominal pain, persistent concern about another panic attack, disturbance is not due to another substance or medication, and is not better explained by another mental disorder. Dsm-v criteria: agoraphobia fear or anxiety to at least 2 of the following situations. Epidemiology: more common in women and is very comorbid with panic disorder, age onset is 20s-30s, u. s. annual prevalence: 0. 8, u. s. lifetime prevalence: 1. 4% Etiology: specific phobia- behavioural: phobic objects: conditional stimulus for learned fear, generalization to similar objects, why the limited range of phobic objects, evolutionary/genetic predisposition, faster gsr conditioning, slower extinction to conditioned stimuli like snakes or spiders. Usually fear occurs to the most unusual stimulus.
