PSYCH257 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder
18 Jul 2016
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Other trauma related disorders will not be looked at closely. Sense that one cannot predict or control upcoming events. Anxiety can be a healthy and adaptive response to danger that keeps us safe. Anxiety becomes unhealthy when it does not subside over time and impairs the normal day to day functioning of students. Anxiety can have a profound impact on learning. Pervasive and persistent symptoms of anxiety and fear. Excessive anxiety and worry and about a range of events or activities. Difficulty controlling worries: health, relationships, job/school being on time. Intolerance of uncertainty (dugas & robichaud, 2007) Cognitive avoidance (borkovec et al. , 2002, 2004) Acceptance-based theory (roemer & orsillo, 2007, 2009) Worry as a legitimate mental health complaint. Need for a more specific definition and model. A belief system where uncertainty is viewed as stressful, upsetting, unfair, negative, and should be avoided (buhr & dugas, 2002) Worry becomes a strategy to mentally plan and prepare for any eventuality.
