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?
SSRI's, SNRI's, and anti-anxiety medication (e.g., benzodiazepines). May also include beta blockers.
What are some of the current medicinal treatments for anxiety?
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?
A period of extreme fear or discomfort that develops abruptly and reaches a peak within 10 minutes
What is a panic attack?
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?
Recurrent excessive distress when anticipating or experiencing separation from home or from major attachment figures.
What is a typical symptom of separation anxiety disorder?
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?
An anxiety disorder in which a person normally capable of speech cannot speak in specific situations or to specific people if triggered.
What is selective mutism disorder?
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 (a type of exposure therapy)?
Continual skin-picking, causing sores, often on the face.
What is excoriation?
A type of therapy in which the patient is encouraged to accept themselves and avoid being self-judgemental.
What is client-centered (or person centered) therapy?