PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Hyperventilation, Paroxetine, Serotonergic
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Gad treatment normally happens at primary care units --> give pill (probably antidepressants or (cid:271)e(cid:374)zodiazepi(cid:374)es) (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e ti(cid:373)e to do a (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ioral therapy. Pharmacological: benzodiazepines --> fast acting anti-anxiety agents; quickly take the edge off of anxiety, but do not last very long. Psychological -- a lot of these are not unique to gads, they apply to other disorders to: cognitive-behavioral treatments (cbts)collection of behavioral interventions that have similar principles. Family of interventions that are cognitive (cbt) [focus on changing cognition] and. Behavioral (cbt) [about changing how you behave as a driver to change cognition, emotion, or internal experiences] Behavioral, b --> identifying and changing patterns of behavior. Cognitive; c --> identify patterns of thinking that are dysfunctional and changing them. Cognitive distortion -- maladaptive patterns of thinking. Content based cbt interventions -- some are very change focused (changing content of how you think)
