PSYCH 3B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Separation Anxiety Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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Anxiety: a future-oriented emotion characterized by perceptions of uncontrollability and unpredictability over potential aversive events and a rapid shift in attention to the focus of potentially dangerous events or one"s own affective response to these events. Fear: reaction to immediate or present threat; a reaction to specific stimulus. Worry: the cognitive components of anxiety; involving thoughts about possible negative outcomes that are difficult to control. People did not think that anxiety disorders could exist in kids for a long time. Children have many more fears than generally appreciated. Older children --> fears are hidden or masked. Social fears and failure: older children and adolescents. Becomes a disorder when the fears become dysfunctional. Shows excessive distress when separated from attachment figure or home. Persistent worry about losing or harm happening to attachment figure. Persistent worry about events that will lead to separation from attachment figure. Persistent reluctance of refusal to go to school.