Other
▫ Restlessness or feeling keyed up or on edge
▫ Easily fatigued or irritability
▫ Difficulty concentrating or mind going blank
▫ Muscle tension or sleep disturbance
What is Need 3 or more of these WITH anxiety for GAD diagnosis?
Anxiety is a learned response to a specific environmental stimuli.
What is Behavioral Theory?
Events are analyzed based on remote, cold facts and without passion (no feeling and emotion).
What is Intellectualization?
Ex: despite the fact a man lost his farm to a tornado, he analyzes his options & brings his child to safety.
Anxiety is contagious and is transferred from mother (parents) to child as an infant.
What is Interpersonal Relations Theory?
*Gives energy to carry out tasks involved in living & striving toward goals
*Promotes constructive behaviors
What is Normal Anxiety?
Unconscious rejection of emotionally unacceptable features and attributing them to others.
What is Projection? (immature response)
Unconscious process of substituting mature & socially acceptable activity for immature & unacceptable impulses.
What is Sublimation?
Ex: woman angry about her boss writes a short story about a heroic woman.
Excessive anxiety or worry occurring more days than not for at least 6 months about several different events.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
Unacceptable feelings or behaviors are controlled & kept out of awareness by developing the opposite behavior or emotion.
What is Reaction Formation?
Ex: recovering alcoholic constantly talks about the evils of drinking.
Transference of emotions associated with a particular person, object or situation to another.
What is Displacement?
Ex: child yelling at teddy bear after being picked on by school bully.
Unconscious childhood conflicts. If the repressed ideas or emotions are close to the surface it creates anxiety.
What is Psychoanalytic Theory?
*Identify negative thoughts
*Realistically self-evaluate
*Replace with positive and supportive ideas
What is Cognitive Restructuring?
Getting more than 8 hours of sleep every night, listening to music, getting a massage, daily exercise.
What is Positive Stress Busters?
Unconscious transformation of anxiety into physical symptoms with no organic cause.
What is Conversion? (pathological defense)
DSM-5 Anxiety Disorders.
What is:
OCD & Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Separation Anxiety
Social Anxiety
Panic Disorder
What is Negative Stress Busters?
Inability to integrate the positive & negative qualities of oneself or others into a cohesive image.
What is Splitting? (pathological defense)
Anxiety disorders are caused by distorted thoughts and
perceptions.
What is Cognitive Theory?
Unconscious exclusion of unpleasant or unwanted experiences, emotions or ideas from conscious awareness.
What is Repression?
Ex: forgetting friends birthday after a big fight.
Person makes up for an act or communication.
Most commonly see in children.
What is Undoing?
Ex: after flirting with secretary, woman brings husband tickets to favorite movie/game.
Counterbalancing perceived deficiencies by emphasizing strengths.
What is Compensation?
Ex: shorter than average man becomes assertively verbal & excels in business.
Escaping unpleasant, anxiety-causing thoughts, feelings, wishes or needs by ignoring their existence.
What is Denial?
Ex: reacting to the death of a loved one by saying "no, I don't believe you".
Conscious denial of a disturbing situation or feeling.
What is Suppression?
Ex: not worrying about rent until your stressful exam is over the next day.
Disruption in consciousness, memory, identity or perception of the environment that results in compartmentalization.
What is Dissociation?
Ex: mentally separating self from noisy place.
Ex: abusive childhood leads to disconnection from reality.
Psychoeducation, breathing techniques, muscle relaxation, self-awareness.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?