PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Acute Stress Reaction, Panic Disorder, Stressor
12 Oct 2016
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When considering the y-d effect, what level of anxious arousal is mostly likely to facilitate adaptive behaviour? moderate. Sharing a cause (biological vulnerability), overlapping diagnostic criteria, one disorder may lead to another. Interoceptive avoidance is when a person with panic disorder tends to avoid eating spicy foods, exercising, watching scary movies because their afraid of getting too aroused. Acute stress disorder occurs within first month, ptsd is not diagnosed until after a month of the stress or trauma. Snake video used exposure therapy as part of cbt. Over time, expose more to the stimulus. Downside is that generalization may be difficult. Used to be all under one category of anxiety disorders. Traumatic disorders are different because there must be a traumatic event: anxiety or fear may not be the primary emotion or symptom. Must be a traumatic event: may not always develop ptsd depending on their vulnerability.
