Chapter 6: Anxiety Disorders: Panic, Phobias, and Generalized Anxiety
After reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to: - Identify and give examples of the four types of symptoms that constitute anxiety.
- Know the differences between adaptive fear and maladaptive anxiety.
- Identify the brain areas and physiological changes that are active in the fight-or-flight response.
- Know the key features of panic disorder and the biological and psychological theories that attempt to explain it.
- Identify the treatment available for panic disorder as well as their advantages and disadvantages.
- Know the key features of agoraphobia.
- Identify the four main types of specific phobias.
- Discuss the biological and psychological theories of phobias.
- Discuss the effective behavioral treatments for phobias.
- Discuss the key features of GAD and the theories that attempt to explain it.
- Identify treatments used for GAD.
- Describe how the anxiety disorders discussed in this chapter vary between the sexes and across cultures.
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