PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Medicalization, Hypervigilance, Agoraphobia
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: lasts up to 4 weeks after stressful events: acute stress disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, intrusive thoughts, emotional blunting, anxiety and arousal, experienced by ~8% of americans, burnout, loss of motivation, exhaustion, detachment. Self isolation: rational coping, problem focused, reframing, emotion focused or problem focused, exercise, aerobic exercise reduces effects of stress, improves problem solving. Understanding psychological disorders: medical model of disease, psychological disorders have causes, symptoms, and treatments, biopsychosocial model of psychological disorders, considers biological, psychological and sociocultural influences. Diagnostic manual used by clinicians: symptoms, labels, prognoses, sample cases, statistics, published may 2013. Issues with psychological diagnoses: recognized diagnoses vary with time, may reflect social, political, and financial interests, dangers of labeling, stigma, symptoms change, medicalization, creation of new disorders , inappropriate diagnoses. Generalized anxiety disorder: symptoms, disruptive feelings of uncontrollable fear/anxiety, source of anxiety is unidentified, autonomic arousal, prevalence, affects about 5% of americans, women outnumber men in diagnoses.
