CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Barry Grant

Document Summary

Portray individuals with mental illness as dangerous. Worrying all the time (generalized anxiety disorder) Having very distorted body image (body dysmorphic dosorder) Being unable to take pleasure in fun things (major depression) Being dependent on alcohol (substance use disorder) Deviant (i. e. , doing or thinking something uncommon) Most common types of disorders: anxiety disorders, mood disorders. Major depression: will affect 3 in 10 people. Specific phobia: will affect 2 in 10 people. Social phobia: will affect ~13% of population. Counseling psychologists focus on relationships, career, etc. Provide the majority of mental health treatment. * less than 1/3 of the people get treated, and most of the treatment comes from general practitioners. Focus: early life experiences, sexual urges, dreams. Goal: foster self-worth and achieve congruence between personal identity and. Goal: foster nonjudgmental observation of thoughts and emotions. Family of treatments with a common goal: alleviate mental health problems by changing the thoughts and behaviors that maintain them.