PS280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Panic Attack, Panic Disorder
Document Summary
All of us experience physiological, cognitive and behavioural aspects of anxiety. Anxiety can be adaptive in the sense that our bodies kick in a physiological response geared toward survival. When anxiety becomes extreme and interferes with a person"s life, it is conceptualized as a disorder. Each anxiety disorder is distinguished in terms of the main source of fear and its appraisal. Biological factors are clearly implicated in the etiology of anxiety, but anxiety is also shaped by life experiences. The most successful interventions for anxiety involve cognitive behavioural treatments. Diagnostic organization of anxiety and anxiety-related disorders in dsm-5. In the dsm-5, anxiety disorders are organized into three categories anxiety disorders, Obsessive compulsive and related disorders, and trauma and stress related disorders. Anxiety and anxiety related disorders are very common, and are more often experienced by women than by men. Approximately 25% of the population may be expected to develop an anxiety or anxiety-related disorder at some point in their lives.
