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| People who are exposed to high levels of stress as children |
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| Have a greater incidence of all mental illnesses as adults |
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| psychological or physical stimuli that are incompatible with current functioning and require adaptation |
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| Neural Response to stress: Men |
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| They experience altered prefrontal blood flow and increased salivary cortisol |
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| Neural Response to Stress: Women |
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| They experience increased limbic (emotional) activity and less significantly altered salivary cortisol |
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| A negative, draining energy that results in anxiety, depression, confusion, helplessness, hopelessness, and fatigue. |
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| A positive, beneficial energy that motivates and results in feelings of happiness, hopefulness, and purposeful movements. |
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| Serotonin synthesis becomes more active |
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| Progressive Muscle Relaxation |
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| Tensing drops of muscles as tightly as possible for 8 seconds and suddenly releasing them. |
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| Affects us "at a deeper level." It invades the central core of the personality and erodes feelings of self-esteem and personal worth. |
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| reaction to a specific danger |
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| Hildegard Peplau's Anxiety Model |
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| Consists of four levels that are not distinct, and often overlap; Mild Anxiety, moderate anxiety, severe anxiety, and panic |
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| heightened perceptual field; able to work effectively toward a goal and examine alternatives; slight discomfort, attention seeking behaviors, and irritability |
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| narrow perceptual field; benefits from the guidance of others; shakiness, difficulty concentrating, pacing, and voice tremors |
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| greatly reduced perceptual field; may not be able to attend to events in the environment; feelings of dread, confusion, sense of impending doom, purposeless activity |
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| Unable to focus on the environment; utmost state of terror; may be mute, showing disorganized or irrational thinking |
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| automatic coping styles that protect people from anxiety and maintain self-image by blocking feelings, conflicts, and memories |
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| Adaptive or Maladaptive determination of defense mechanisms |
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| evaluate, in the most part, by their frequency, intensity, and duration of use |
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Recurrent episodes of panic attacks.
at least one of the attacks has been followed by 1 month of more of the following: persistent concern about having additional attacks; worry about consequences; significant change in behavior |
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| intense, excessive anxiety or fear about being in places or situations from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing |
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| persistant irruption fear of a specific object, activity or situation |
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| thoughts, impulses, or images that persist and recur, so that they cannot be dismissed from the mind |
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| ritualistic behaviors an individual feels driven to perform in an attempt to reduce anxiety |
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Persistant reexperiencing of a highly traumatic event that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury to self or others, to which the individual responded with intense fear, helplessness, or horror
Symptoms begin within 3 months typically, but can also be delayed |
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| occurs within one month after exposure to a highly traumatic event, but resolves within 4 weeks, by definition |
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| Neurochemicals that regulate anxiety |
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| NE, E, dopamine, serotonin, and GABA |
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| anxiety is linked to the emotional distress caused when early needs go unmet or disapproval is experienced |
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anxiolytics
often used to treat the somatic and psychological symptoms of anxiety disorders
usually benzodiazapines (due to quick onset of action),although ideally for only a short amount of time |
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| Systematic desensitization |
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| the patient is gradually introduced to a feared object through a series of steps |
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| method that exposes the patient to a large amount of an undesirable stimulus in an effort to extinguish the anxiety response |
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| the therapist or significant other acts as a role model to demonstrate appropriate behavior in a feared situation, and then the patient imitates it. |
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| Used for compulsive behavior, the therapist does not allow the patient to perform the compulsive ritual |
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| a techniques utilizing a patient-initiated distraction that briefly blocks the automatic undesirable thought and cues the patient to select an alternative, more positive idea |
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| Most common psychiatric disorders in the U.S? |
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