PSYC 3140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Specific Phobia, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
15 Jul 2015
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Anxiety disorders: most common mental disorders in the u. s, in any given year, 18% of the adult population in the u. s. experiences one of the six dsm-iv-tr anxiety disorders. Close to 29% develop one of the disorders at some point in their lives. Generalized anxiety disorder gad: most common, basic anxiety disorder because it is characterized by generalized anxiety. Gad sociocultural perpsective: according to this theory, gad is most likely to develop in people faced with social conditions that truly are dangerous, research supports this theory (example: three mile island in 1979, hurricane. In any given year, african americans are 30% more likely than white americans to suffer from gad: multicultural researchers have not consistently found a heightened rate of gad among. Freudians focus less on fear and more on control of id. Object-relations therapists attempt to help patients identify and settle early relationship problems.
