PSYC 399 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Social Anxiety Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, Avoidant Personality Disorder
15 Dec 2019
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Prevalence and epidemiological factors: one of the most prevalent psychiatric disorders in us, lifetime prevalence of 12. 1%- and. Biological, psychological, behavioural, and environmental and sociocultural factors. Information extracted from the situation are combined with information from past similar situations and internal and external cues. Implicit memory is learned as an unintended effect of experience and is testing indirectly: suggests individuals with sad preferentially remember autobiographical social events. In clinical practice, parents recall their child being behaviourally inhibited since infancy. Clinical rating scales: most commonly used clinician-administered measure of social anxiety is the liebowitz. Includes subscales: highly reliable, self-report version is also reliable, version of lsas has been developed for use with children and adolescents, a score of 30 discriminates patients with social anxiety disorder from normal controls. Imaging studies have been used to examine neurobiological changes in brain activity as a result of treatment.
