Causes of Anxiety
Rapid breathing, muscle tension, sweating
What are the symptoms of both fear & anxiety?
What are the causes of anxiety per the CBT Model?
Typical way those with a phobia deal with it.
What is avoidance of the situation, activity, or object?
The client witnesses the therapist in the fearful situation.
What is modeling?
A form a psychotherapy directed at changing one's behavior via defusing/reframing the emotional and mental reactions to a certain behavior.
A. What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
18% & 37%.
What are 1) the percent of the population affected with an anxiety condition & 2) the percent of those who seek treatment?
Hyperactivity of the "fear circuit," including the amygdala.
What is the Biological Model's view of the cause of anxiety?
Fears that can keep a person a "prisoner in their own home."
What is Agoraphobia?
"If I'm doing this, it can help me avoid thinking of something I don't want to think of."
What is a possible reason for people to utilize compulsive behavior?
Repetitive and rigid behaviors that a person feels they must perform in order to prevent or reduce anxiety.
What are compulsions?
One of the main causes of anxiety per the Sociocultural Model.
What is poverty?
A descriptive feature of Generalized Anxiety Disorder, in addition to chronic, persistent worry.
What is "free-floating anxiety."
A recurrent attack of terror.
What is a panic attack?
Repetitive, rigid behaviors, or mental acts a person feels they must perform to avoid the anxiety of something terrible happening.
What are compulsions?
“Persistent thoughts, ideas, impulses, or images that invade a person’s consciousness.”
What are obsessions?
The breakdown of defense mechanisms.
What is Freud's view of the cause of anxiety?
A persistent and irrational fear of an object, activity, or situation.
What is a Specific Phobia?
A patient/client provides a stepwise list of situations that cause anxiety; the therapist uses relaxation and vivid imagery to gradually reduce each of the steps.
What is Systematic Desensitization?
"Frenzied hair-pulling."
What is trichotilomania?
Person feels compelled to save multiple items, becomes highly distressed if try to throw them away. This can cause an excessive accumulation of multiple items that can clutter their lives and living places.
What is hoarding?
The absence of Unconditional Positive Regard (UPR), leading to self-doubt and self-recrimination.
What is the Rogerian view of the cause of anxiety?
Typical explanation for the origin of phobias.
What is classical conditioning?
A therapy that involves the intentional exposure of the person to the feared situations/conditions.
What is flooding?
Continual skin-picking, causing sores, often on the face.
What is excoriation?
Person repeatedly picks at their skin, causing sores and wounds on the skin, often on the face.
What is Excoriation Disorder?