PSYC 412 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Specific Phobia, Social Anxiety Disorder
23 Dec 2015
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When you feel danger, your body jumps to protect you. Heart: pumps faster to spread more oxygen through your muscles so that you can have the extra energy you would need. Stomach: stops digesting food to conserve energy: because of this, you feel a lump in your stomach, diagnoses by content domain. Separation from or harm coming to loved ones. Do not want to be separated from parents. Worrying about events that might separate them from parents. Fear of social situations in which person will be evaluated. For children, must occur in peer settings (not just with adults) Won"t go to restaurants because they don"t want other people to see them eating. Afraid that they"re going to do something while eating get lettuce in their teeth because other people will make fun of them. Child has experienced an intense stressor, like where someone was killed or there was a serious threat to life.
