PSY1022 Chapter Notes - Chapter Prescribed: Structural Family Therapy, Agoraphobia, Gestalt Therapy
26 May 2018
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PSY1022 – Readings – Week 6
- somatic symptom disorders
• conditions marked by physical symptoms that suggest an underlying
medical illness, but are actually psychological in origin
- hypochondria
• an individual’s continual preoccupation with the notion that he or she is
suffering from a serious physical disease
- generalised anxiety disorder (GAD)
• continual feelings of worry, anxiety, physical tension and irritability
across many areas of life functioning
- panic attacks
• brief, intense episodes of extreme fear characterised by sweating,
dizziness, light headedness, racing heartbeat and feelings of impending
death or going crazy
panic disorder
• repeated and unexpected panic attacks, along either either persistent
concerns about future attacks or a change in personal behaviour in an
attempt to avoid them
- anxiety disorders
• generalised anxiety disorder
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o constant worry
o often experience other anxiety disorders such as phobias or panic
disorders
• panic disorder
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o panic attacks - occur when nervous feelings gather momentum and
escalate into intense bouts of fear
o panic disorder - when individuals experience panic attacks that are
repeated
- phobia
• intense fear of an object or a situation that is greatly out of proportion to
its actual threat
-agoraphobia
• fear of being in a place or situation from which escape is difficult or
embarrassing or in which help is unavailable in the event of a panic
attack
- specific phobia
• intense dear of objects, places or situations that is greatly out pf
proportion to their actual threat
- social anxiety disorder
• intense fear of negative evaluation in social situations
post traumatic stress disorder - PTSD
• marked emotional disturbance after experiencing or witnessing a
severely stressful event
- obsessives compulsive disorder OCD
• condition marked by repeated and length immersion in obsessions or
compulsions or both
- obsessions
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Document Summary
Hypochondria continual feelings of worry, anxiety, physical tension and irritability across many areas of life functioning. Phobia intense fear of an object or a situation that is greatly out of proportion to its actual threat. Agoraphobia fear of being in a place or situation from which escape is difficult or embarrassing or in which help is unavailable in the event of a panic attack. Specific phobia intense dear of objects, places or situations that is greatly out pf proportion to their actual threat. Social anxiety disorder intense fear of negative evaluation in social situations post traumatic stress disorder - ptsd: marked emotional disturbance after experiencing or witnessing a severely stressful event. Obsessives compulsive disorder ocd condition marked by repeated and length immersion in obsessions or compulsions or both. Obsessions: persistent ideas, thoughts or impulses that are unwanted and inappropriate, causing marked distressed. Compulsions repetitive behaviours or mental acts performed to reduce or prevent stress.
