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What is a phobia?
Persistent fears of objects or situations that are disproportionate to the threats they pose
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What is an obsession?
An intrusive, recurrent thought, idea, or urge that seems beyond the person’s ability to control
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What is actual/ threatened death, serious physical injury, or threat to one’s own or another physical safety?
The traumatic event involves ______.
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What is worry?
Central feature of GAD.
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What is Pounding heart, rapid respiration, shortness of breath/ difficulty breathing, heavy perspiration, weakness, and dizziness?
Physical symptoms of an anxiety attack.
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What are tendencies of a person with social phobia?
Severely critical of the ways they interact with others, become absorbed in evaluating their social skills, and may find excuses to decline social invitations
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What are checking, cleaning, symmetry, forbidden thoughts/actions, and hoarding?
4 categories of OCD.
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What is: nature of the trauma, proximity to violence, social support, other life circumstances, age, or drug use?
5 risk factors of PTSD.
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What is depression and other anxiety disorders?
Frequently occurs with what other mental disorders?
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What is within minutes or hours?
Climax of a panic attack.
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What are the unconscious desires the phobia symbolizes?
The person is aware of the phobia, but not of ________.
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What is one hour?
Must occupy this amount of time in a person's day to be considered a compulsive obsession.
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What is avoidance behavior, re-experiencing the trauma, impaired functioning, heightened arousal, and emotional numbing?
Features of PTSD.
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What is restlessness, feeling tense, becoming easily fatigued, having difficulty concentrating or finding one’s mind going blank, irritability, muscle tension, and disturbances of sleep?
5 common features of GAD.
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What is agoraphobia?
Excessive or irrational fear of open or public places
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What is (1) classical conditioning; (2 )operant conditioning?
Phobias are acquired through _____(1)____ and maintained by ____(2)_____.
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What is exposure therapy?
Involves having clients intentionally place themselves in situations that evoke obsessive thoughts
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What is anxiety becoming a conditioned response that is elicited by exposure to trauma-related stimuli
Learning perspective of PTSD.
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What is almost any environment or situation?
In a learning perspective, anxiety is tied to this neutral stimulus.
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What is heart palpitations, change in body temperature, and change in emotion?
Panic prone people have a greater sensitivity to their own internal physiological cues such as: ______.
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What are projection and displacement?
The Freudian defense mechanisms seen in phobias
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What is obsessions representing the leakage of unconscious impulses into consciousness?
The psychodynamic perspective on OCD.
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What is gradually re-experiences the traumatic event and accompanying anxiety in a safe setting (allowing extinction to take its course)?
Cognitive-Behavioral treatment approaches to PTSD.
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What is the representation of the threatened leakage of unacceptable sexual or aggressive impulses into conscious awareness?
Psychodynamic perspective on GAD.
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What is Gamma-aminobutyric acid?
When ___(neurotransmitter)____ is insufficient, neurons excessively fire, which can heighten anxiety or cause seizures.
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