PSYC 2113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Systematic Desensitization, Reflex Syncope, Psychopharmacology

• School: Acadia University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2113
• Professor: Birdie Bezanson

Document Summary

Essential criteria for gad: excessive uncontrollable worry, muscle tension, fatigue, restlessness, have to have it more than 6 months, sleep disruption, worry is disproportionate to risk. Specific phobia: excessive fear/anxiety/panic towards a certain object. Earlier onset than other types of disorders. In the dsm4 the patient had to recognize that the fear was unreasonable. Children often manifest fear differently (tantrum, clinging, crying) There also has to be a huge (cid:272)o(cid:373)po(cid:374)e(cid:374)t of a(cid:448)oida(cid:374)(cid:272)e a(cid:374)d it (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e attri(cid:271)uted to other disorders. About 6. 4 percent of population meet diagnostic criteria for specific phobia. Phobias run a chronic course, onset beginning between childhood and adolescence. Blood-injury-injection phobia: vasovagal response to blood, injury, or injection. Situational phobia: e. g. public transportation, big crowds. Natural environment phobia: events occurring in nature, animal phobia, and other phobias (these are the five specifiers) Causes of phobias: biological and evolutionary vulnerability, direct conditioning, observational learning, information transmission.