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| mood state characterized by strong negative emotion and bodily symptoms of tension in which child apprehensively anticipates future danger or misfortune |
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| immediate reaction to perceived danger or threat; goal is to escape potential harm either by confronting source of danger or by evading it |
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| immediate alarm reaction to current danger or life-threatening emergencies |
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| group of physical symptoms of the fight/flight response that unexpectedly occur in the absence of any obvious threat or danger |
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| separation anxiety disorder |
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| age-inappropriate, excessive, and disabling anxiety about being apart from their parents or away from home |
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| refusal to attend classes or difficulty remaining in school for an entire day |
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| generalized anxiety disorder |
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| excessive and uncontrollable anxiety and worry about many events on most days |
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| fear at an inappropriate age that persists, is irrational or exaggerated, leads to avoidance of the object or event, and causes impairment in normal routines. |
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| marked and persistent fear of social or performance requirements that expose them to scrutiny and possible embarrassment |
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| fail to talk in specific social situations even though they may speak loudly and frequently at home or in other settings |
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| experience recurrent, time-consuming, and disturbing obsessions and compulsions |
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| persistent and intrusive thoughts, ideas, impulses, or images |
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| repetitive, purposeful, and intentional behaviors, or mental acts performed in response to an obsession |
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| sudden, overwhelming period of intense fear or discomfort that is accompanied by four or more physical and cognitive symptoms characteristic of the fight/flight response |
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| recurrent, unexpected attacks followed by at least one month of persistent concern about having another attack, constant worry about the consequences, or a significant change in behavior related to the attacks |
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| concern about having a panic attack |
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| fear of being alone in and avoiding certain places or situations |
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| persistent anxiety following an overwhelming traumatic event that occurs outside the range of usual human experience |
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| persistent negative mood, as reflected in nervousness, sadness, anger, and guilt |
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| combination of classical and operant conditioning in the learning and maintenance of fears |
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| children born with a low threshold to becoming overexcited and to withdrawing in response to novel stimulation as infants, a tendency to be fearful and anxious as toddlers, and a tendency to be unusually shy or withdrawn in novel or unfamiliar situations; predisposing factor for anxiety disorders |
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| causing children to face what frightens them while providing ways of coping other than escape and avoidance |
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| child exposed to varying levels of the situation, starting with the least anxiety provoking. child reports subjective units of distress |
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| systematic desensitization |
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| teaching the child to relax, constructing an anxiety hierarchy, presenting anxiety provoking stimuli sequentially while child remains relaxed |
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| exposure carried out in prolonged and repeated doses |
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| used in combination with flooding; prevents child from engaging in escape or avoidance behaviors |
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| used in combination with flooding; prevents child from engaging in escape or avoidance behaviors |
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| loss of interest in nearly all activities |
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| affective disorder; disturbance in mood is central feature |
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| state of prolonged bouts of sadness |
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| annoyance and touchiness, characterized by an angry mood and temper outbursts |
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| exaggerated sense of well-being |
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| major depressive disorder |
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| minimum duration of 2 weeks and is associated with depressed mood, loss of interest, other symptoms, and significant impairment in functioning |
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| depressed mood, generally less severe but longer lasting symptoms and significant impairment in functioning |
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| major depressive episode is superimposed on child's previous dysthymia, causing child to present with both disorders |
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| depressive ruminative style |
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| focus narrowly on negative events for long period |
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| negative form of self-disclosure and discussion between peers focused narrowly on problems or emotions to the exclusion of other activities or dialogue |
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| negative perceptual and attributional styles and beliefs associated with depressive symptoms |
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| depression-prone individuals tend to make internal, stable, and global attributions to explain the causes of negative events |
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| negative cognitive schemata |
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| stable structures in memory that guide information processing, including self-critical beliefs and attitudes |
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| occurrence of depression depends on interaction between personal vulnerability and life stress |
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| processes by which emotional arousal is redirected, controlled, or modified to facilitate adaptive functioning, and to the balance maintained among positive, negative, and neutral mood states |
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