PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 034
• Professor: Tootle

Document Summary

Anxiety: vague sense of being in danger, and usually has some of the same features (increased breathing, muscular tension, perspiration) as fear. Anxiety disorder: discomfort is too severe or too frequent, lasts too long, or triggered too easily. Definition: experience excessive anxiety under most circumstances and worry about practically everything, symptoms last at least 6 months. Sociocultural: happens in people who have societal conditions that are truly dangerous. Neurotic anxiety-when repeatedly prevented from expressing id impulses. Moral anxiety-when punished from expressing id impulses. Client-centered therapy-show the client unconditional positive regard and empathize with them. Basic irrational assumptions-when people are guided by irrational beliefs that lead them to act and react in inappropriate ways. Metacognitive theory-that people w/ generalized anxiety disorder hold both positive and negative beliefs about worrying. Intolerance of uncertainty theory-when people believe that any possibility of a negative event occurring, no matter how slim, means that they event is likely to occur.