PSY 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Behavior that is: deviant (atypical, maladapive (dysfuncional); don"t do well at school or job; funcioning skills, personally distressing (despair); in some cases, might distress others but not yourself such as with ani-sociality disorder or psychopath. Disorders with biological origins (such as neurotransmiters) Not just drugs but also exercise: psychological approach. Dsm-v classiicaion system: how they determine mental illnesses, advantages. Helps quanify the amount, the problem, the prevalence, etc. Naming the disorder can provide comfort: disadvantages. Diagnoses skyrocketed by 2000% from 1988 to 2010: tradiionally considered a childhood disorder, 2/3rds persist to adulthood. Anxiety-related disorders: uncontrollable fears that are disproporionate and disrupive, generalized anxiety disorder. Persistent anxiety for at least 6 months. Inability to specify reasons for the anxiety. Psychological and sociocultural factors: harsh self-standards, criical parents, negaive thoughts, trauma, panic disorder. Recurrent, sudden onsets of intense terror that oten occur without warning. Sociocultural factors: gender diferences: speciic phobia. An irraional, overwhelming, persistent fear of a paricular object or situaion.
