Chapter 15

Phobias

Acquired 3 ways - classical conditioning - modeling - verbal transmission or information.

Anxiety Disorder

Characterized by excessive and persistent fear and anxiety and by related disturbance in behavior

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder -

Characterized by the tendency to experience intrusive and unwanted thoughts and urges (obsession) and/or the need to engage in repetitive behaviors or mental acts (compulsions) in response to the unwanted thoughts and urges.

Safety Behavior

Mental and behavior acts designed to reduce anxiety in social situations by reducing the chance of negative social outcomes, common in social anxiety disorder.

Panic attack

Period of extreme fear or discomfort that develops abruptly; symptoms of panic attacks are both physiological and psychological.

major depressive disorder

Referred to as "depression" or "major depression", characterized by sadness or loss of pleasure in usual activities, as well as other symptoms.

Schizophrenia

Severe Disorder characterized by a major disturbances in thought, perception, emotion, and behavior with symptoms that include hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking and behavior, and negative symptoms.

Seasonal Pattern

Sub-type of depression in which a person experiences the symptoms of major depressive disorder only during a particular time of year.

Panic Disorder

anxiety disorder characterized by unexpected panic attacks, along with at least one month of worry about panic attack or self - defeating behavior related to the attack.

Generalized anxiety disorders

characterized by a continuous state of excessive, uncontrollable, and pointless worry and apprehension.

Social anxiety disorder

characterized by extreme and persistent fear or anxiety and avoidance of social situations in which are could potentially be evaluated negatively by others.

ADHD

childhood disorder characterized by inattentiveness and/or hyperactive, impulsive.

PTSD

experiencing a profoundly traumatic event leads to constellation of symptoms that include intrusive and distressing memories of the events, avoidance of stimuli connected to the event, negative emotional states, feelings of detachment from others, irritability, proneness toward outbursts, hyper vigilance, and a tendency to startle easily; these symptoms must occur for a least a 1 month.

Flight of idea

symptom of mania that involves an abruptly switching in conversation from one top to another.