Cultural Factors & Anxiety
A learned and shared pattern of behavior which is characteristic of a group living within fairly definite boundaries . . . interacting socially among themselves.
What is culture?
All youth experience this as a normal part of development.
Persistent and intrusive thoughts, urges, or images that children try to neutralize with compulsions.
What are compulsions?
The type of therapy, shown to be more effective than no treatment, a placebo, or alternative treatments across multiple trials, used in the "Treating Anxiety in Children" article.
What is CBT?
It is important in all aspects of anxiety research.
What is culture?
These are common symptoms of anxiety in children.
What are somatic symptoms: increased heart rate, stomach ache, etc?
One of the most common treatments for OCD in children and adults.
What is CBT/Exposure Therapy?
Tina's dog's name.
What is Nugget?
Failure to take this into account in the identification and treatment of anxiety disorders could potentially put children and adolescents and their families at jeopardy for misdiagnosis and inadequate treatment.
What is culture?!
Characterized by ongoing and excessive worry about many things and constant comfort and approval from others to reduce worry.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
One common co-occuring disorder in children with OCD.
What is anxiety, ADHD, ODD, and vocal and motor tics.
Two of the four "Ds" of psychopathology.
What is:
Distress
Dysfuction
Deviance
Danger
This is a constellation of symptoms that are patterned and explainable through a cultural framework.
What is a culture-bound syndrome?
A type of anxiety characterized by marked fear or anxiety in certain places or situations (in a crowd, outside the home).
What is agoraphobia?
The amount of time spent per day that obsessions or compulsions take to be clinically significant (as considered by the DSM).
The name of the treatment program in "Child-Focused Treatment for Anxiety."
What is Coping Cat?
This is the name of one culture-bound syndrome.
What is....
Anxiety is conceptualized as having these three parts: physiological, cognitive, and...
What is behavioral?
What is 9-12 years.
One of the two most common anxiety disorders to occur during childhood.
What is separation anxiety disorder or a specific phobia?!