Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
To meet DSM-5 criteria, a person must find it difficult to do this to their worry
What is control?
This disorder involves a marked fear of one or more social situations where the person is exposed to possible scrutiny.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia)?
This term describes panic attacks that seem to come "out of the blue" without an obvious trigger.
What is unexpected or uncued?
These are defined as persistent, recurrent, and intrusive thoughts that are experienced as disturbing and uncontrollable.
What are obsessions?
This general form of behavior therapy involves controlled exposure to stimuli or situations that elicit phobic fear.
What is Exposure Therapy?
GAD is characterized by excessive anxiety and worry occurring more days than not for at least this many months.
What is 6 months?
A specific phobia diagnosis requires that the fear be "out of proportion" to this.
What is the actual danger posed by the object or situation?
A panic attack is brief but intense, typically reaching its peak intensity within this many minutes.
What is 10 minutes?
Cleaning, checking, and repeating are three of the five primary types of these repetitive behaviors.
What are compulsions?
This specific technique involves the therapist calmly demonstrating ways of interacting with the phobic stimulus.
What is Participant Modeling?
While adults need three or more physical symptoms for a diagnosis, children only require this many.
What is one (1)?
Unlike adults, children with social anxiety must manifest the disorder in settings with these people.
What are peers?
This inhibitory neurotransmitter is found to be abnormally low in people with panic disorder.
What is GABA?
For an OCD diagnosis, the symptoms must be time-consuming, meaning they take up more than this many hours per day.
What is 1 hour?
This behavioral treatment involves deliberately inducing the internal physical sensations that a patient fears.
What is Interoceptive Exposure?
This cognitive bias in GAD involves an individual’s perception of the world as being these two "un-" qualities.
What are uncontrollability and unpredictability?
This technique uses counter-conditioning to treat specific phobias
What is systematic desensitization?
This Cambodian culture-specific syndrome translates to "wind attacks" and shares symptoms with panic.
What is Khyal Cap?
This specific brain circuit is believed to be dysfunctional in OCD, causing impulses to "leak through".
What is the CBGTC circuit?
Along with interoceptive exposure, this comprehensive treatment approach is commonly used to manage panic symptoms.
What is Panic Control Treatment?
GAD is characterized by dysfunction of these neurotransmitters.
What are GABA and CRH?
This cognitive view of social anxiety suggests that people expect they will act in a way that leads to this outcome from others.
What is negative evaluation (humiliation/rejection)?
Contemporary theory suggests this almond-shaped brain structure is a central part of the "fear network" involved in panic.
What is the Amygdala?
This specific subcortical group includes the caudate nucleus and is highly active in the OCD brain.
What are the Basal Ganglia?
This is the most common behavioral treatment for OCD, involving the stimulation of obsessions while preventing the ritual.
What is Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)?