PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Reduced Affect Display, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Group Psychotherapy

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Stephanie Denison

Document Summary

Obsessions: irrational disturbing thoughts that intrude into consciousness (thoughts images and impulses) feel outside of the individuals control. Compulsions: repetitive actions people use to relieve the stress of obsessions (most common checking and washing due to fear of contamination/doubting) Some have one or the other or both. Diagnosis/prevalence: easy to see the symptoms, 1 in 100 adults at one point in their life. Treatment: cbt, combinations cbt and ssri to increase serotonin and reduce activity in caudate nuclus. Definition: debilitating anxiety and fear which arises frequently without a reasonable cause. Very frightening: suffers live in fear of attacks. Fear you"re going crazy or are going to die. Causes: less clear: connection with major life transition, some evidence for genetic predisposition, generally unclear. Diagnosis/prevalence: 1 out of 75 usually in teen or early adulthood. Definition: develop after any event that results in psych-trauma the event must threaten death or injury to you or others.