1. Anxiety Disorders

2. Anxiety
Anxiety—
Fight or Flight
Anxiety Disorder

3. Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Definition—
How do they feel?
Symptoms last…
Women outnumber men

4. The Sociocultural Perspective
Most likely to develop…
Poverty
Race

5. The Humanistic Perspective
Arises when people stop…
Denials
Carl Rogers
Client-centered therapy

6. The Cognitive Perspective
Caused by…
Maladaptive assumptions
Rational-emotive therapy
Self-instruction training (4 stages)

7. Phobias

8. Phobias Definition— People become fearful… Specific phobia
Intense fears of…
Women 2:1
Social phobia
Severe…
Narrow, broader
Unable to…

9. Phobias Animals Beards Books Fur Graves Heights Mustard
Marriage Cotton
Rain
Sleep
Strangers
Teeth
Poison
Flowers

10. What causes phobias? Behavioral explanations Classical conditioning
Modeling
Predisposition
Preparedness
Systematic desensitization
Flooding
modeling

11. Treatment for Social Phobias
Antidepressant meds
Exposure therapy
Group therapy
Cognitive therapies

12. Panic Disorder People lose control of… Panic attacks— Symptoms…
Agoraphobia
Antidepressant drugs

13. Cognitive Perspective
Panic-prone people may be…
Why are people prone to misinterpretations?
Anxiety sensitivity
Therapy

14. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Obsessions—
Compulsions—
Can be helpful
DSM-IV
Obsessions can take the form of…
Compulsions can take the form of…