CAS PS 371 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Specific Phobia, Anxiety Disorder
13 Mar 2017
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Always prefer to do cognitive therapy first before medication. Rapid behavioral treatment of a specific phobia (snake phobia) Trying to determine her catastrophic belief (what she"s afraid of) Hers is the belief that she will have heart failure from seeing a snake. He brings snake in (gradually turns around) He said it was a pretty strong first reaction. By the end, holding it and untangling it from his belt loop. Anxiety will go down after a while. Meaning and purpose of life after retiring. For most children, fear and anxiety are experienced without great interference in everyday life; most fears are transient. Natural emotion; enjoyable emotion for many children *e. g. scary movies, stories) For some children, fears persist and become interfering in daily functioning or in family functioning and disrupt normal development. Phobia- exaggerated fears or fears that are more persistent and disturbing and result in maladaptive avoidant behavior.
