COUN222 Lecture 8: CBT for Anxiety
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Outline: defining anxiety, what perpetuates anxiety, intervention for anxiety, panic disorder, agoraphobia, specific phobia, social anxiety, What is anxiety: response, assessment of threat/danger, react with fight or flight response (or freeze response, continuum, only becomes problem when normal response is exaggerated or occurs in the absence of a real threat. Prevalence in australia: anxiety-related conditions are the most frequently reported mental or behavioural condition 2. 6 million people (11. 2% population)1. The most prevalent anxiety disorders2 are: post-traumatic stress disorder (6. 4%), social phobia (social anxiety disorder; 4. 7%), agoraphobia (2. 8%), generalised anxiety disorder (2. 7%), panic disorder (2. 6%, obsessive compulsive disorder (1. 9%). Maintaining processes: focus of attention, directed toward threat cues, scanning or hypervigilance (health anxiety & ptsd, example: 3 4 of my family has cancer. Treatment: evidence based practice, randomised control trials, benefits of cbt. Therapeutic relationship: psychoeducation about, flight/ flight response, role of emotions, preferred way of coping. When anxious, people can worry that they don"t know what"s going on.
