PSY 395 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Tachycardia
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Chapter 6: panic, anxiety, obsessions, and their disorders. Fear: basic emotion, reaction to a stimulus, involves automatic cognitions. Anxiety disorders: unrealistic, irrational fears or anxieties, cause significant distress and/or impairments, high comorbidity between anxiety disorders, specific phobia, social anxiety disorder (social phobia, panic disorder, agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder. Why are today"s youth more anxious: emphasis on performance outcomes, earlier puberty and sexualization, growing up in an environment of volatility (lockdown drills, mass shootings, etc. , overprotective parents. Increased readiness to report symptoms- changing attitudes and awareness of mental health problems: poor abilities to tolerate uncertainty, constant access to digital devices= limited abilities to tolerate anxiety. Treatments: exposure therapy, participant modeling, virtual reality components. Social phobia: lifetime prevalence=12, slightly more common in females, typically begins during adolescence or early adulthood (peak age of onset=15, many have comorbid disorders such as anxiety disorders or depression.
