CLP 3144 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Panic Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Heritability

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Clinical and Health Psychology
• Course: CLP 3144
• Professor: natalieweldon

Document Summary

Fight or flight response: set of physical and psychological responses that help us fight a threat or flee from it, cortisol: major hormone released by adrenal glands. Post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd: trauma: events in which individuals are exposed to actual/threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violation, diagnostic criteria of dsm-5 requires that individuals either: Directly experience or witness the traumatic events. Experience repeated or extreme exposure to the details of a traumatic event. Learn that the even happened to someone they are close to: symptoms of ptsd. Persistent avoidance of situations, thoughts, or memories associated with the trauma. Negative changes in thought and mood associated with the event. Hypervigilance and chronic arousal: ptsd with prominent dissociative symptoms: dissociation, traumas leading to ptsd: natural disasters, human-made disasters, traumatic events, sexual assault, theories of ptsd. Environmental and social factors: severity, duration, and proximity of the individual to the trauma as well as amount of social support available.