PSY 309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Acute Stress Reaction
Lecture note 11 PSY 309:
• Acute stress disorder
• used when symptoms develop shortly after traumatic event, 2 days, no longer than a
month, re-experience of event, avoidance of stimuli associated with trauma, increased
arousal (insomnia, easily startled)
• adjustment disorder
• reaction to common life stressors, diagnosed when a response to a common stressor is
maladaptive, has to occur within 3 months of that stressor,
• PTSD
• re-experiencing of the event, avoidance of stimuli, increased arousal, lasting longer than
a month
• Agoriphobia
• anxiety about being in places from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing
• generalized anxiety disorder
• chronic excessive worry about everything, more days than not for 6 months,
uncontrolable, more common in women, lifetime is under 6%, hard to determine age of
onset, comorbidity with other disorders, genetics, neurotransmitters, medications,
cognitive behavioral therapy
• obsessive compulsive disorder
• unwanted and intrusive thoughts or images, impulsive behaviors, 1 year (1%) lifetime
(2.5 %), affects both genders equally, adolescence or early adulthood, co occurs with
anxiety or mood disorders, medications, behavioral and cognitive treatments
• panic disorder
• occurrence of panic attacks, increase in prevalence in young generations, late teens to
early 20s, twice as common in females, high comorbidity with other disorders, that first
panic attack follows distressful situation, due to genetics, medications benzodiazepines
and antidepressants, cognitive behavioral treatments
• phobias-specific
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