Download Anxiety Disorders - fernandezappsych

Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
 Anxiety
Disorders – psychological
disorders characterized by persistent
worry or maladaptive behaviors that
reduce anxiety
 We have all experienced anxiety to
some degree but this anxiety
becomes anxiety disorder when it
takes over and impairs life (OCD
example)
 Anxiety Overview - YouTube
Generalized
Anxiety Disorder
(GAD)







Excessive, Constant and long-lasting anxiety that
is not focused on any particular object or
situation
Sometimes called free-floating anxiety
Anxiety lasts for weeks at a time
Sleeplessness, worry, tense, jittery, perspiration,
agitated
GAD affects around 3.4% of the US population
2/3 of those that suffer from GAD are women
Other problems often accompany GAD –
depression and substance abuse
 stages
of social anxiety - YouTube
Panic Disorder
Episodes last only minutes but include
acute terror – patient experiences chest
pain, choking, heart palpitations,
sweating, and dizziness (often thought to
be having a heart attack)
 Attack occurs without provocation
 1-2% of the US population experience
Panic Disorder but at least 30% have
experienced at least one panic attack
 Those with Panic Disorder also experience
other anxieties due to fear of an attack

Panic Disorder Videos
 Jon
& Jordan Knight On Panic Attacks
Part 1 – YouTube
 Q. How would the psychodynamic
perspective explain panic attacks?
 Airline Panic Attack
Phobias
Activity- Complete Fear Survey.
 An irrational fear of an object or situation
 Those with phobias know that their fear is
irrational, yet this is not enough to make
the fear go away
 Classified in the DSM

– Specific Phobias
 Fear
of _____
 Most prevalent anxiety disorders
(7-11% of US population)
– Social Phobias
 Anxiety
of being criticized by others
 Ex. fear of public speaking
PHOBIAS
Phobias
 Agoraphobia
– Fear of being away from a safe place
(home)
– Usually refuse to leave home due to fear
of anxiety
– Many with Panic Disorder develop
agoraphobia
– Affects around 5% of the population and
more likely to occur in women
– Exercise: Annabelle adapting and
Agoraphobia
Phobias
The Benchwarmers: Howie's Greatest
Moments – YouTube
Phobia Party SNL - YouTube
Obsessive Compulsive
Disorders (OCD)
 Persistent
unwanted
thoughts (obsessions)
causing a need to
engage in a particular
behavior/ritual
(compulsion)
 Obsession and
Compulsions are
intense, disturbing and
bizarre.
 Affects 2.4% of the US
Obsessions
 Cleaning
(germaphobes)- Boy in
basement, teacher, mother/daughter
 Checking - ovens, door locks, under
car.
 Counting – steps, rituals with
random sometimes very large
numbers –ex-student and tiles,
alarm clocks.
 Odd/even numbers- Alana N.
OCD Clips
 Howie
 ocd
Mandel OCD on Ellen
girl – YouTube
 Pushed
to the Extreme: OCD-3years
in Hell - YouTube
 OCD
Facts
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
(PTSD)
 Flashbacks
and nightmares of an
extremely troubling event.
 These memories cause anxiety
 Experience sleep disturbances and
are easily startled
 Watch The Full Program Online | The
Soldier's Heart | FRONTLINE | PBS
What do you think the following
perspectives say about anxiety
disorders?
 Psychoanalytic
Perspective
 The Learning Perspective
(Behaviorists)
The Biological Perspective
The Cognitive Perspective
Crash Course- Anxiety, OCD
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
aX7jnVXXG5o
 Can
Show 1st 8 mins. Here..last 4
mins after perspectives explanation
of etiology.
Perspectives and anxiety…
 Psychoanalytic
Perspective Freud would say anxiety is a product
of repressed impulses and ideas.
Anxiety is a byproduct of unresolved
unconscious conflicts.
Perspectives and anxiety…

The Learning Perspective
(Behaviorists)
– Fear conditioning – anxiety occurs from
unpredictable bad events – fear is classically
conditioned. Ex. Billy the uni-cheeked boy
– Oftentimes a stimulus generalization is seen
– Reinforcement helps maintain phobias and
compulsions
– Fears could be learned through observations
Perspectives and anxiety…
 The
Biological Perspective
– We are biologically prepared to fear
threats faced by our ancestors (this has
helped our survival)
– Genes – predisposition to fear and
anxiety
 Twins
often develop the same phobias
– Physiology – over arousal of brain
activity – see page 632 of PET scan
Perspectives and anxiety…
 The
Cognitive Perspective
– Anxiety is a result of dysfunctional ways
of thinking.
– Dr. Phil “What were you thinking?
Ben Stein, Halley Berry
– Thoughts affect our emotions
Social-Cognitive
 Locus
of Control
 Learned Helplessness
 Self Efficacy
Biopsychosocial
Q
Look at the word and decide how
would these people explain anxiety
disorders?