CSU - PSY 320 - Class Notes - Week 6
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Other Trauma Related Disorders Acute stress disorder occurs with traumas similar to PTSD ● Lasts no longer than 4 weeks Adjustment disorder emotional and behavioral symptoms arise within three weeks
Phobias Unreasonable or irrational fears of specific objects or situations ● Common phobias: ○ Arachnophobia fear of spiders
○ Ophidiophobia fear of snakes
○ Acrophobia fear of heights
○ Agoraphobia fear of open or crowded spaces
○ Cynophobia fear of dogs
○ Astraphobia fear of thunder/lightning
○ Claustrophobia fear of small spaces
○ Mysophobia fear of germs
○ Aerophobia fear of flying
○ Trypophobia fear of holes ● Categories according to DSM5 ○ Animal type ■ Snakes & spiders ○ Natural environment type ■ Heights ○ Situation type ■ Claustrophobia ○ Bloodinjectioninjury type ■ Germs & disease
■ Dentist & doctor Theories of Phobias ● Behavioral ○ Negative reinforcement anxiety is reduced by avoidance
○ Classical conditioning conditioning to certain objects or situations ■ Little Albert ● Biological ○ Related people share phobias Treatment of Phobias ● Exposure to extinguish fear ○ Systematic desensitization start with it far away from you (mentally and then physically) ○ Modeling showing that other people are calm and okay with situation
○ Flooding have them face fear right away ● Applied tension technique

Social Anxiety Disorder Anxiety in social situations ● Rejected, judged, or humiliated in public
● Focus on avoiding such events
● More common in women
● Develops often in adolescence Treatment for Social Anxiety Disorder ● Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
● Serotoninnorepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs)
● Cognitivebehavioral therapy ○ Identifying negative cognitions and dispute them
○ Role playing ● Mindfulnessbased interventions
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Panic Disorder Panic attacks short extremely intense periods when someone experiences many
anxiety symptoms ● Symptoms: ○ Racing heart
○ Difficulty breathing compressed
○ Sweating
○ Racing thoughts
○ Hyperventilating
○ Trembling/shaking
○ Trouble sleeping intrusive thoughts ● Panic attacks become common and unprovoked
● Worry about having panic attacks and change behaviors as result like not going out in public because they don’t want to have a panic attack in front of someone ● Fear of having a life threatening illness think they are having a heart attack sometimes Theories of Panic Disorder ● Heritability 4348%
● Triggers: ○ Hyperventilating ■ Ex: being out of breath from running can be like opening the floodgates for all the other symptoms ○ Ingest caffeine
○ Breathing into a paper bag breath in CO2, makes it harder to breath ● Involvement of limbic system
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School: Colorado State University
Department: Psychology
Course: Abnormal Psychology
Professor: Martha Amberg
Term: Fall 2016
Tags: PSY320, abnormalpsychology, Amberg, and Psychology
Name: PSY 320 Week 5 Notes
Description: Lecture notes for week 5 Prof Amberg Phobias, OCD and other anxiety disorders
Uploaded: 09/23/2016
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