CHLH 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Panic Disorder, Systematic Desensitization, Agoraphobia
20 Nov 2016
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Fear: actual threat to well-being (specific, physiological + emotional response. Anxiety: perceived threat or danger (vague, physiological + emotional response, frequent false alarms that last too long or are triggered easily. Generalized anxiety disorders: excessive or ongoing anxiety and worry about practically anything, physical symptoms. Muscle tension sleep disturbance irritability: significant distress or impairment, begins in childhood or adolescence, cognitive perspective. Unhelpful assumptions lead people to act in inappropriate ways (ellis) Unrealistic silent assumptions implying imminent danger (beck: cognitive therapy irrational-emotive therapy. Persistent and uncontrollable fear of a particular object, activity, or situation. Specific phobia: marked fear of a specific object or situation. Agoraphobia: immediate fear of being in public places/situations, fear is related to concern that escape might be difficult. Behavioral: classical conditioning, modeling, stimulus generalization. Evolutionary perspective: we are born prepared to develop certain phobias and not others. Specific phobia: systematic desensitization, flooding repeated intense exposure to feared object or situation. Persistent fear/anxiety about one or more social.
