PSYCH 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Separation Anxiety Disorder, Panic Attack, Observational Learning
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Drug treatment often anti-depressants; relapse rates are high, however. Panic control treatment (pct) expose them to internal cues that lead to panic (e. g. make person deliberately hyperventilate and then show them they can survive it and they can control it); some people still relapse over time. Mentally booster sessions after therapy is complete (still come in once per month to reduce likelihood that panic attacks will come back) Fear-mediated avoidance that is out of proportion to object/situation. Approximately 15% of females and 7% of males have lifetime phobias. Specific phobias are unwarranted fears caused by presence of specific object/situation such as: Animals (e. g. spiders, snakes, sharks, mice, birds, etc. ) Blood, injuries, or injections: unreasonable fear/avoidance of blood, injury, or possibility of injection. Victims experience fainting/drop in blood pressure (a very different physiological reaction from other phobias) Situations (e. g. choking, going on an airplane, enclosed spaces, etc. )
