PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Problem Gambling, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Relaxation Technique
21 Jun 2020
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Worry reinforcing because it distracts from negative emotions and images. Individuals with gad less able to identify their own negative feelings. Challenge and modify negative thoughts (it increases ability to tolerate uncertainty) Grouped together because of shared features including obsessive thoughts and/or compulsive behaviors. Intrusive, persistent, and uncontrollable thoughts or urges. Most common: contamination, sexual impulses, body problems. Impulses to repeat certain behaviors or mental acts to avoid distress. Compulsive gambling, eating, etc. not considered compulsions since they are pleasurable: lifetime prevalence rate: 1. 6, develops either between age 10 or during late adolescence/early adulthood, earlier onset in men, ocd is often chronic. Preoccupied with an imagined or exaggerated defect in appearance. Women focus on skin, hips, breasts, legs. Men focus on height, penis size, hair, muscularity. Has high levels of shame, anxiety, and depression. Etiology of body dysmorphic disorder; unique behavioral and cognitive factors: Miss the gestalt, or the whole picture. Etiology of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders: neurobiological factors:
