PSYCH 3B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Agoraphobia, Likert Scale, Pharmacology
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Anxiety and related disorders: anxiety is a future oriented emotion characterized by perceptions of uncontrollability and unpredictability over bad events. Involves thoughts of negative things, the worry is hard to control. by apprehension or lack of control. If we do not let them do this, this can lead to bad behaviors. Empirical approach: this is using questionnaires, unlike dsm, it does not give you very specific categories, but it gives basic ideas. It is excessive distress when separated from an individual: 8 different symptoms form dsm, persistent fear and distress from being left. it is usually a primary caregiver. It is 1-2% and this goes up to 3-4% in older kids. It is about 2-14%, there is concern about over diagnoses, since it co occurs with other anxiety disorders. Ptsd: requires exposure to a serious traumatic event, where there is an intense fearful reaction, we ese this in kids who are abused or maltreated.
