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PSYCHOLOGY. Anxiety Disorders. Bell ringer/Notes. Make a 7 column chart in your notebook for broad categories of disorders & examples of specific disorders with in each broad cat. Anxiety Disorders Dissociative Disorders Somatoforms Disorders Psychosomatic disorders Personality Disorders
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PSYCHOLOGY Anxiety Disorders
Bell ringer/Notes • Make a 7 column chart in your notebook for broad categories of disorders & examples of specific disorders with in each broad cat. • Anxiety Disorders • Dissociative Disorders • Somatoforms Disorders • Psychosomatic disorders • Personality Disorders • Mood Disorders • Schizophrenia Disorders
Anxiety Disorders Anxiety Disorders distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety (avoidance of anxiety seems to motivate abnormal behavior)
Anxiety Disorders 1. Generalized Anxiety Disorder person is tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal
Anxiety Disorders 2. Panic Disorder • episode of intense dread • a person experiences terror & accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensation
Anxiety Disorders 3. Phobia persistent, irrational fear of a specific object or situation 4. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - OCD unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions)
Anxiety Disorders • Common and uncommon fears
Anxiety Disorders • PET Scan of brain of person with Obsessive/ Compulsive disorder • High metabolic activity (red) in frontal lobe areas involved with directing attention
Anxiety disorders • Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) • Haunting memories • Nightmares & insomnia • Social withdrawal • jumpy
Explaining anxiety disorders 1. Learned behaviors • Conditioning & observational learning • Biological • Evolutionary • Genes • Brain
Video clips DVD • OCDs • Phobias