PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Eating Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, Psy
19 Dec 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
13. 3% lifetime prevalence in usa o most common psychological disorder (kessler et al. , Prevalence highest of all mental disorders, starts to develop in adolescence for most people. Often people with this disorder already have been bullied or teased in their past or maybe even excluded. Catastrophizing: outcomes of people seeing you nervous. Social phobia: only notice the faces of people who seem to be bored, critical or looking at their cellphones. To help: help them find the smiling faces. Pay attention in a way in which they are looking for evidence in which they are different from others. Would see people in relationships or hanging out together but wouldn"t notice the people by themselves. Commonalities in maintenance and treatment of anxiety disorders. First time you expose yourself anxiety goes up high but will go down. Second time go up again, not as much, will go down more quickly.
