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Ch. 18 Morrison Ed. 5

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Definition
Signal Anxiety   a learned response to an anticipated event  
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anxiety state   occurs when one's coping abilities become overwhelmed and emotional control is lost  
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anxiety trait   a learned component of the personality  
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coping mechanism   behaviors to help decrease discomfort  
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defense mechanisms   psychological strategies that help to lessen anxious feelings  
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avoidance behaviors   refusing to cope with anxiety-producing situation by ignoring it  
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anxiety disorder   exists when anxiety is expressed in ineffective or mal-adaptive ways and one's coping mechanisms do not successfully relieve the distress  
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panic attack   a brief period of intense fear or discomfort  
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agoraphobia   anxiety about possible situations in which panic attack may occur  
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phobia   an internal fear reaction  
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obsession   a distressing persistent thought  
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compulsion   a distressing recurring behavior  
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addictive behavior   obsessive-compulsive behavior thatt may form addiction such as gambling, working, shopping, excessive sexual activity  
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traumatic stress reaction   a series of behavioral and emotional responses following an overwhelmingly stressful event  
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flashbacks   symptoms of PTSD which are vivid recollections of the event where the individual relives the frightening experience  
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anxiety   a feeling of uneasiness, uncertainty and helplessness  
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emotional response   crying, communicating or sharing one's anxious feelings and using ego defense mechanisms  
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spiritual coping methods   include prayer, faith and ritual  
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intellectual coping mechanisms   aimed to making the threat less meaningful by changing one's perception  
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physical coping mechanisms   include efforts to directly face and handle the problem  
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separation anxiety disorder   diagnosed when children are unable to be without their parents for any length of time  
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overanxious disorder   appears during childhood with unrealistic levels of anxiety lasting longer than 6 months (a long time in the life of a child)  
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generalized anxiety disorder   diagnosed when an individual's anxiety is broad, long-lasting and excessive  
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social phobia   an unrealistic and persistent fear of any situation in which other people could be judging  
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obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)   persons are consumed by self-destructive, anxiety reducing thoughts or actions  
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displacement   placing focus of anxiety into compulsive actions  
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cognitive-behavioral therapy   helps clients intellectually understand the ineffective behaviors used to cope with anxiety and replace them with more successful behaviors  
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systematic desensitization   clients learn to cope with one anxiety-provoking stimulus at a time until the stressor is no longer associated with anxity  
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flooding   rapid and repeated exposure to the feared object or situation until anxiety levels diminish  
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