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abnormal exam 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| big butt | |
| Case Study , Terry, Generalized Anxiety Disorder | Treatment - psychotherapy where realized his parent's expectations too high but did not help behavior. Started Cognitive Behavior therapy: establish rapport, make goals, relaxation, review goals to be specific |
| Anxiety | generalized state of apprehension can be physical, cognitive, behavioral, emotional, arousal, and tension. |
| panic disorder | repeated unexpected episodes of intense anxiety can be cued (triggered) or uncued (no identifiable trigger) |
| cognitive for panic disorder | misinterpretations of biological bodily functions can cause anxiety that can turn into a panic attack |
| biological for panic disorder | genetics contribute to vulnerability of a panic disorder (limbic system, frontal lobe), perceives as warning so activates sympathetic arousal |
| cycle of panic | 1-trigger stimulus 2-perceived threat 3-apprehension 4-body sensations 5-interpretation of sensations as catastrophic |
| treatment for panic disorder | antidepressants work for anxiety disorders cognitive-behavioral therapy: 1) self-monitoring 2) exposure 3)coping skills |
| phobic disorders and social phobias | fear and avoidance, want to avoid embarrassment, agoraphobia |
| psychodynamic for phobias | anxiety is a danger signal threatening impulses of sexual aggressive nature nearing the level of awareness, to fend off impulses the ego uses defense mechanisms |
| learning for phobias | mowrer: two-factor model: development of phobic reactions on the basis of classical and operant conditioning, observational learning: see someone afraid so your afraid, and negative reinforcement, something bad happened so now afraid it will always happen |
| biological for phobias | genetic factors cause people to be more suceptible for anxiety, if amygdala is over active (brain's fear control center) prepared conditioning: biological predisposition causes us to acquire certain fears like snakes |
| cognitive for phobias | oversensitivity to threatening cures, overprediction of danger, and self-defeating thoughts and irrational beliefs |
| treatments for phobias learning based | systematic desensitization, gradual exposure, flooding, virtual reality |
| treatments for phobias cognitive therapy | help people recognize flaws in thinking- ellis REBT cognitive restructuring antidepressant drugs like zoloft and paxil treat social phobia |
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