PSYC 412 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: John Bowlby, Frontal Lobe, Maya Angelou
11 Apr 2017
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Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health problems among young people prevalence is between. Although there is a high prevalence rate, the disorder usually goes unnoticed and fewer than 20% of youngsters with anxiety disorders receive services for their problems. Anxiety disorders have a chronic and stable course; the duration can be 8 years or longer. Obsessive compulsive disorder (ocd) is closely related and was once considered to be a part of anxiety disorders (but now have a separate chapter for it in dsm-5) Anxiety: strong negative emotion and bodily symptoms of tension in which child apprehensively anticipates future danger or misfortune. The two key features of anxiety: strong negative emotion and element of fear. Everyone experiences anxiety to a certain anxiety for example, 1 year old infants become distressed from their mothers and almost all young children have short-lived specific fears like the dark.
