Anxiety Disorders & Crisis Exam
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Anxiety - ✔✔response arising in anticipation of a perceived or actual threat
to oneself or significant relationships
Anxiety is characterized by - ✔✔mental uneasiness
Apprehension
Dread
Foreboding
Feelings of helplessness
Anxiety disorder - ✔✔occurs when normal feelings of anxiety get out of
control & begin to impair individual functioning
fear - ✔✔heightened physical and emotional response to imminent danger
When is anxiety a problem? - ✔✔when you can no longer perform daily
activities
Free-floating anxiety - ✔✔excessive worry that is hard to control and whose
focus may shift from moment to moment
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,Not connected to a specific stimuli
Etiology - ✔✔biological causes, and genetics
What are the neurotransmitters most closely involved with the anxiety
response? - ✔✔GABA
Norepinephrine
Serotonin
Neurobiological theories - ✔✔*think limbic system and brain structure*
Amygdala - "emotional brain"
Hippocampus - stores memories related to fear
Frontal cortex - assists with appraisal of a threat
Basal ganglia - responsible for the tremors associated with anxiety
Neurochemical theories - ✔✔*neurotransmitters*
Something wrong with neurotransmitters or how neurons are
communicating
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, Psychosocial theories - ✔✔views anxiety as a sign of internal conflict
resulting from the threatened emergence of repressed emotions into
consciousness
Behavioral theories - ✔✔faulty thinking and behavior are learned
dysfunctional responses to stressors
Genetic theories - ✔✔genetic predisposition may play a part in the
development of anxiety disorders
Heritability of anxiety is 30-60%
Humanistic theories - ✔✔biological, psychological, behavioral, and genetic
causes all play a role
Classifications of stressors - ✔✔acute and time limited
Sequential events following an initial stressor
Chronic intermittent
Chronic permanent
Acute and time limited stressor - ✔✔ankle sprain
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Questions and Answers 100% Solved
Anxiety - ✔✔response arising in anticipation of a perceived or actual threat
to oneself or significant relationships
Anxiety is characterized by - ✔✔mental uneasiness
Apprehension
Dread
Foreboding
Feelings of helplessness
Anxiety disorder - ✔✔occurs when normal feelings of anxiety get out of
control & begin to impair individual functioning
fear - ✔✔heightened physical and emotional response to imminent danger
When is anxiety a problem? - ✔✔when you can no longer perform daily
activities
Free-floating anxiety - ✔✔excessive worry that is hard to control and whose
focus may shift from moment to moment
1
©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
,Not connected to a specific stimuli
Etiology - ✔✔biological causes, and genetics
What are the neurotransmitters most closely involved with the anxiety
response? - ✔✔GABA
Norepinephrine
Serotonin
Neurobiological theories - ✔✔*think limbic system and brain structure*
Amygdala - "emotional brain"
Hippocampus - stores memories related to fear
Frontal cortex - assists with appraisal of a threat
Basal ganglia - responsible for the tremors associated with anxiety
Neurochemical theories - ✔✔*neurotransmitters*
Something wrong with neurotransmitters or how neurons are
communicating
2
©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
, Psychosocial theories - ✔✔views anxiety as a sign of internal conflict
resulting from the threatened emergence of repressed emotions into
consciousness
Behavioral theories - ✔✔faulty thinking and behavior are learned
dysfunctional responses to stressors
Genetic theories - ✔✔genetic predisposition may play a part in the
development of anxiety disorders
Heritability of anxiety is 30-60%
Humanistic theories - ✔✔biological, psychological, behavioral, and genetic
causes all play a role
Classifications of stressors - ✔✔acute and time limited
Sequential events following an initial stressor
Chronic intermittent
Chronic permanent
Acute and time limited stressor - ✔✔ankle sprain
3
©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
