PSYC 3390 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Dsm-5, Benzodiazepine
4 Dec 2015
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Constant anxious thinking and excessive worrying often characterize adults and children who suffer from intense anxiety. In order to be diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder (gad), the dsm-5 requires a child to report suffering from excessive anxiety most days for at least six months, along with a minimum of 1 physical symptom. Gad mostly report worrying about how they perform academically, athletically, or socially, along with family issues (barlow et al. , 2015). In an attempt to anticipate and prevent negative events from happening, feelings of anxiety often worsen, creating a never-ending cycle. Sometimes, this cycle can make an individual worry excessively about something going wrong that they unconsciously encourage the bad outcome to happen. Parents and family members of children with gad may find it difficult to know how to support their loved one; this can lead to frustration, anger, and overprotectiveness (barlow et al. ,
