Abnormal psychology- Anxiety Disorders
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| Fear | innate almost biologically based response to a dangerous or life-threatening situation.
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| Anxiety | More future-oriented and global (than fear), referring to the state in which an individual is inordinately apprehensive, tense, and uneasy about the prospect of something.
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| Anxiety Disorders | Incapacitated by chronic and intense feelings so strong that they are unable to function on a day-to-day basis.
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| Panic Disorder | People experience panic attacks, periods of intense fear, and physical discomfort, in which they feel overwhelmed and terrified by a range of bodily sensations that causes them to feel they're loosing control (shortness of breath, dizziness, sweating).
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| Unexpected (uncued) Panic Attack | No situational cue or trigger.
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| Situationally Bound (cued) Panic attack | Happens in anticipation of confronting a particular situation or immediately following exposure to a specific stimulus or cue in the environment.
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| Agoraphobia | Intense anxiety about being trapped, stranded or embarrassed in a situation without help if a panic attack were to occur.
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| Anxiety Sensitivity Theory | People with panic disorders tend to interpret cognitive and somatic manifestations of stress and anxiety in a catastrophic manner.
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| Benzodiazepines | Anxiety medications that bind to receptor sites of GABA neurons.
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| Combined Fear Reactants | Individuals associates certain bodily cessations with memories of the last panic attack, causing full blown one even before it happens leading to avoidance behavior.
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| Relaxation Training | Used in panic disorder and agoraphobia. Client learns systematically to alternate tensing and relaxing muscles all over the body.
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| Panic Control Therapy (PCT) | The development of the awareness of bodily cues associated with panic attacks and breathing restraining.
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| Aversions | Responses of discomfort or dislike.
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| Specific Phobia | Irrational and unbating fear of a particular object, activity, or situation that provokes an immediate anxiety response.
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| Flooding | The client is totally immersed in the sensation of anxiety rather than being more gradually acclaimed to the feared situation.
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| Imaginal Flooding | Imagine what scenes look like. Exposure to threatening situations while in a safe context will condition the client to confront the target of phobia without feeling unduly anxious.
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| Graduated Exposure | Clients initially confront situations that cause only minor anxiety and then gradually progress toward those that cause greater anxiety.
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| Thought Stopping | Individual learns to stop anxiety-provoking thoughts.
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| Social Phobia | Tremendous anxiety in speaking in front of a group and also in virtually all situations in which others might be observing them.
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| Generalized Anxiety Disorder | Constant feature of everyday life. Applies to a category of anxiety-related experiences.
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| Obsessions | Persistent and intrusive idea, thought, impulse, or image.
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| Compulsion | A repetitive and seemingly purposeful behavior performed in response to uncontrollable urges according to a ritualistic or stereotyped set of rules.
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| OCD | Either or both recurrent obsessions and compulsions that interfere significantly with the individual's way of life.
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| Acute Stress Disorder | Individual develops feelings of intense fear, helplessness, or horror soon after a traumatic event.
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| PTSD | Acute stress disorder that persists for more than a month.
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| Traumatic Experience | Disastrous or an extremely painful event that has severe psychological and physiological effects.
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