Psych chpt 13- psychological disorders
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- Elements necesarry for diagnosis
- -disturbance in behavior, thoughts or emotions -significant personal distress -result of an internal dysfunciont (biological, psychological, or both)
- Diathesis-Stress Model
- person may be predisposed for a mental disorder that reamains unexpressed until triggered by a stressor
- Generalized Anxiety Disorders symptoms
- Chronic exessive worry + restlessness fatigue concentration problems irritability muscle tension sleep disturbance
- GAD sociocultural
- develops in people faced with living situations that are truly disadvantaged
- GAD cognitive (psychological)
- hold inaccurate and inapproproate beleifs; interpret stressful events or situations as exessively scary
- Panic Disorder
- Recurrent Panic attacks physiological response in which a person feels as though they are going to die -always worry about having attacks