PSY 395 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Separation Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Attack
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Chapter 5: anxiety disorders, trauma-, and stressor-related, and. *we must know the clinical description for all disorders. *to be considered a disorder, fear must interfere with functioning and causes impairment! Expected/situationally-bound/cued: bound/cued to some situations; expected in a given situation, common in someone suffering from a specific phobia and social phobia, 2. Unexpected (uncued): unanticipated, occurs without warning, common in someone suffering from panic disorder. *biological contributions to anxiety disorders: suggests that people inherit the tendency to be anxious or highly emotional, can have a vulnerability to respond with excessive anxiety and panic when presented with the right psychological and social factors. Suffering from two or more disorders at once. *separation anxiety disorder vs. school phobia* concerning separation from home afraid of something specific within the school refusal to go to school because of parental separation typically dissipates as child ages.
