PSYC 3390 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Partial Seizure, Novelty Seeking, Derealization

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3390
• Professor: Mary Manson- Hennig

Document Summary

How to assess for symptoms, criteria, etc. How disorders develop (causes), including specific examples. Social anxiety disorder (sad)extreme, enduring, irrational fear and avoidance of social or performance situations. Table 5. 6: diagnostic criteria for social anxiety disorder (social phobia: marked fear or anxiety about one or more social situations in which the person is exposed to possible scrutiny by others. Examples include social interactions (e. g. , having a conversation; meeting unfamiliar people), being observed (e. g. , eating or drinking), or performing in front of others (e. g. , giving a speech). Performance only: if the fear is restricted to speaking or performing in public. Statistics: 8. 1%ofcanadians, sad usually begins during adolescence, inflicts young, less educated, single, lower ses individuals, distribution relatively evenly among different ethnic groups. Causes: biological vulnerability to develop anxiety, biological tendency to social inhibition, conditioned panic attack in a social situation, experience of a real social trauma. A model of the various ways social anxiety disorder may develop.