PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Separation Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3171
• Professor: Mark Coates

Document Summary

Psy 3171 lec 4 : anxiety, ocd, trauma. Diagnostic criteria: almost all diagnoses include the criteria causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning , many include not better accounted for by the symptoms of another mental disorder and. Not attributable to the direct effects of a drug or other medical condition . I am going to leave out these criteria from the slides most of the time, since they are common to almost all conditions. Anxiety disorders: panic disorder, agoraphobia, specific phobias, social anxiety disorder (social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, separation anxiety disorder, selective mutism. Agoraphobia: agoraphobia refers to anxiety about being in places where escape might be difficult in the event of having a panic attack; those situations are avoided. Once again, some degree of social anxiety is extremely common: very common for social phobia to exist before a comorbid disorder.