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- 1. Phobias Chapter 4- anxietydisorders
- 2. What is aphobia? A specific phobia is an _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ ‐ Significantly interferes with ones ability to function. ________________________________________________
- 3. RUN!!! ___________________________________________is necessary to meetthe criteria for a phobia. Most persons with specific phobias recognize that the fears are unreasonable and irrational- but try to escape anyway.
- 4. Phobic Disorders The ____________________________________________ _________________________________________________ ‐People with phobias often adapt their lives and simply work around it. The physical symptoms of this type of anxiety are: ‐ Increased heart rate ‐ Blood pressure ‐ Irregular breathing patterns, ‐ Thoughts of disaster.
- 5. Diagnosing Phobias To qualifyfor a diagnosis of phobic disorders is that the fear must be ___________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ Unlike generalized anxiety, the anxiety is focused on some specific object or situation. ‐ _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________.
- 6. Different types ofphobias DSM IV first defined phobias as a classifiable disorder in 1994 _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________
- 7. Types of phobias 1._________________________________________ Unreasonable fear/avoidance of exposure to ____________________________ _________________________________________. These are typically the people who faint at the sight of even a drop of blood (Barlow et al.,1995). People with this type of phobia experience different physiological reactions than other phobias. ‐ _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________
- 8. Blood-Injury-Injection Phobias This typeof phobia runs in families and has a strong genetic component. This is likely because people who inherit this phobia ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ The average age of onset for this type of phobia is 9.
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- 10. Natural/environment phobias involve thefear of events in nature, like heights, storms or water.
- 11. ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ___________________________________________ Example- If youfear deep water, you are likely to also fear storms The age of onset for this type of phobia is age ______.
- 12. Phobias characterized byfear of public transportation or enclosed places are called __________________________________
- 13. Situational phobia Situational phobiastend to emerge in the early to ______________________________ ____________________________________________ __________________________________________ People with situational phobias never experience a panic attack outside the context of their phobic object/situation. ‐ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________.
- 14. 4. _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ ‐ particularlydogs, snakes, insects and mice The age of onset is 7, like natural environmental phobias. Animal Phobias
- 15. Statistics The APA reportsthat in any given year, ___________________________________________________ They are the most common psychiatric illness among ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ The sex ratio for specific phobias is ____________ ___________________________________________________
- 16. Since people tendto work around their phobias, only the most severe cases tend to seek treatment.
- 17. Will I haveto live with this forever? Once a phobia develops, __________________ ____________________________________________ ______ making treatment very important. With proper treatment, the vast majority of phobia patients can completely overcome fears and live symptom-free.
- 18. Treatment The treatment forphobias is agreed on by most of the psychological community. ____________________________ _________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________ exercises. This should be done under professional supervision, so the patients are not exposed to too much at once, which could lead to escape and this would only ________________________________________________________ New developments in treatment make it possible to treat many specific phobias in an intensive, one day session participating in exposure exercises with the phobia/situation.
- 19. Treatments The results arevery interesting because in these cases not only does the phobia disappear but the tendency to experience the ____________________________________________ ________________________________________________ It is now clear, based on brain imaging that these treatments ______________________________ _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________
- 20. Where do phobiascome from? It was once believed that phobias developed after a traumatic event._________________________________________ _______________________________________________
- 21. Where did thiscome from? Traumatic experiences can result in phobic behavior, developed by ____________________________________________ where danger results in an alarm response. Example- many people who have choking phobias have experienced choking at some time.
- 22. Developing phobias Vicarious experience-__________________________ _______________________________________________. Seeing someone else have a traumatic experience is enough to instill a phobia in the watcher. 3. _______________________________________________ can sometimes produce a phobia, this is referred to as information transmission.
- 23. It’s all inthe breeding… _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ ‐ 31% of first-degree relatives of people with specific phobias also had a phobia, compared to only 11% of first relatives of normal controls. This research suggests that relatives were likely to have that exact type of phobia (Frye et al. , 1990).
- 24. Next Class… (OCD)- ObsessiveCompulsive Disorder (PTSD)-Post Traumatic Stress Disorder