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fear - Answer-- the central nervous system's physiological and emotional response to a serious threat to one's wellbeing anxiety - Answer-- the central nervous system's physiological and emotional response to a vague sense of threat or danger anxiety disorder - Answer-- discomfort is too seve...

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Chapter 5 Anxiety, Obsessive
Compulsive and Related Disorders
Exam Questions and Answers
fear - Answer-- the central nervous system's physiological and emotional response to a
serious threat to one's wellbeing

anxiety - Answer-- the central nervous system's physiological and emotional response
to a vague sense of threat or danger

anxiety disorder - Answer-- discomfort is too severe or too frequent, lasts too long, or is
triggered too easily
- most individuals with one anxiety disorder suffer from a 2nd as well
- also plays a major role in a diff group of problems called obsessive compulsive and
related disorders

What kinds of disorders are the most commonly diagnosed mental disorders in the US?
- Answer-- anxiety disorders
- any given year, 18% of the population suffers
- 29% of all people develop one of the disorders at some point in their life
- only around 1/5 people seek treatment

Generalized Anxiety Disorder - Answer-- general and persistent/excessive feelings of
worry and anxiety about numerous events and activities
- sometimes described as free-floating anxiety
- most people are able to carry on social relationships and jobs

Symptoms of Generalized Anxiety Disorder - Answer-- typically feel restless
- keyed up/on edge
- tire easily
- have difficulty concentrating
- suffer from muscle tension
- have sleep problems

What % of US population have symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder - Answer-- 4%
of the US population have symptoms

What % of people will develop generalized anxiety disorder sometime during their life? -
Answer-- 6% of people

When does generalized anxiety emerge? Men vs women? - Answer-- can emerge at
any age, usually 1st appears in childhood/adolesence
- women to men ratio: 2-1

, What % of people with the disorder are in treatment? - Answer-1/4 (25%)

Generalized Anxiety Disorder: The Sociocultural Perspective - Answer-- according to
sociocultural theorists, GAD is most likely to develop in people who are faced with
ongoing societal conditions that are dangerous
- African Americans are 30% more likely to suffer from this disorder
- Hispanics in both US and Latin America suffer from "nervios" (nerves) - a culture
bound disorder that bears great similarity to GAD
ex) 3 Mile Island nuclear power plant after accident of nuclear reactor, Hurricane Katrina
victims, Haitian earthquake victims, poverty (one of the most powerful forms of societal
stress)

Generalized Anxiety Disorder: The Psychodynamic Perspective - Answer-- Sigmund
Freud (1917, 1933)
- believed that all children experience some degree of anxiety as a part of growing up
and that all use ego defense mechanisms to help control such anxiety
- today;s psychodynamic theorists often disagree with specific aspects of Freud's
explanation, but most continue to believe the disorder can be traced to inadequacies in
the early relationships between parent and child

realistic anxiety - Answer-- according to Freud, children feel realistic anxiety when they
face actual danger

neurotic anxiety - Answer-- according to Freud, children feel neurotic anxiety when they
are repeatedly prevented, by parents or circumstances, from expressing their id
impulses

moral anxiety - Answer-- according to Freud, children feel moral anxiety when they are
punished or threatened for expressing their id impulses

According to Freud, which children are more likely to develop GAD? - Answer-- those
who have high levels of such anxieties/defense mechanisms
- a child's defense mechanism could be too weak to cope with even normal levels of
anxiety (overprotected children)

What kind of treatments do psychodynamic therapists use? (6) - Answer-- free
association
- the therapists interpretations of transference
- resistance
- dreams
- Freudian psychodynamic therapists use methods to help clients with GAD become
less afraid of their id impulses and more successful in controlling them
- object relations therapists help anxious patients identify and settle the childhood
relationship problems that continue to produce anxiety in adulthood

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