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DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for GAD - ✔✔Excessive anxiety and worry
hard to control worry
3 or more of: restlessness, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, irritability, muscle tension, sleep
problems
distress or dysfunction
for at least 6 months
Psychodynamic causes of GAD - ✔✔early development experiences
Psychodynamic treatments for GAD - ✔✔Free association
therapist's interpretations of transference, resistance and dreams
short term therapy
Assessment of GAD - ✔✔
Humanistic view for causes of GAD - ✔✔when people stop looking at themselves honestly
and acceptingly
when unconditional positive regard is not received, conditions of worth are developed and
harsh self-standards
Humanistic treatments of GAD - ✔✔client centered therapists try to show unconditional
positive regard for their clients and to empathize with them
show genuine acceptance and carrying
,Cognitive perspective view for causes of GAD - ✔✔maladaptive assumptions that they apply
to events
New cognitive explanations for causes of GAD - ✔✔Metacognitive theory: worry about
worrying
Intolerance of uncertainty theory: worry about uncertainty
Avoidance theory: worry is negatively reinforcing by taking away the unwanted body arousal
Cognitive therapies/treatments for GAD - ✔✔Changing the maladaptive assumptions
New Wave: help clients understand the role of worrying, modify views of worrying, and change
behavioral reactions to such unnerving concerns
mindfulness based therapy
Ellis's Rational Emotive Therapy: point out bad assumptions, suggest appropriate ones, and
assign related homework
Biological perspective on causes of GAD - ✔✔Genetics
GABA inactivity
prescription benzodiazapines
malfunction in feedback system and fear circuit
Biological treatments for GAD - ✔✔medication (sedative hypnotic drugs)
relaxation
DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for Panic Disorder - ✔✔Unforeseen panic attacks occur repeatedly
and one or more: at least month of continual concern of attack or a month of dysfunctional
behavior changes associated with the attacks.
Causes of Panic Disorder - ✔✔Biological: irregular activity of norepinephrine, brain
abnormalities in amygdala and hyperactivity of fear circuitry.
, CB: misinterpretation of bodily events, anxiety sensitivity where they can't logically assess
symptoms, biological challenge
Treatment for Panic Disorder - ✔✔Biological: antidepressants or norepinephrine receptors
CB Therapies: biological challenge procedures to interpret bodily sensations appropriately
DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for Specific Phobias - ✔✔persistent fear of particular object or
situation
lasting at least 6 months
exposure to the object produces immediate fear
avoidance of feared situation
significant distress or impairment
Causes of specific phobias - ✔✔Classical Conditioning: US --> UR then a CS--> CR
Modeling
Operant conditioning: maintain phobias through avoidance, stimulus generalization can also
occur
Treatment of specific phobias - ✔✔systematic desensitization with relaxing techniques and a
fear hierarchy can be in vivo (live) or covert (imagination)
flooding
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