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Mind Map by Felicity Picton, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Felicity Picton
almost 11 years ago
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Phobic
disorders
- definition: phobias is an irrational
fear of particular object or situation.
it's an anxiety disorder.
- specific phobias: fear of
object or situation 1. animal 2.
environmental dangers 3.
blood-injection-injury
4.situational 5.other
- social phobia: fear
of being in social
situations
- agoraphobia:
fear of open
spaces
- specific phobias: fear of
object or situation 1. animal 2.
environmental dangers 3.
blood-injection-injury
4.situational 5.other
- clinical
characteristics
- cognitive symptoms: irrational
fear about stimuli that causes
fear. preoccupied by anxious
thoughts
- social symptoms:
avoiding social situations.
social phobias or
agoraphobia
- behavioural symptoms: altered behaviour to
avoid feared object or situation, try hard to
escape. often resteless
- physical symptoms: activation of fight
or flight response. involves release of
adrenaline, increased heart rate and
breathing, and muscle tension
- cognitive symptoms: irrational
fear about stimuli that causes
fear. preoccupied by anxious
thoughts
- diagnostic
characteristics
(DSM-IV)
- 1. significant
prolonged fear of
object or situation
- 2. experience anxiety response
(panic attack) if exposed to
phobic stimulus
- 3. sufferers realise phobia is
irrational and out of proportion
to actual danger. try hide
phobia from people, cause more
anxiety
- 4. sufferers g out of
way to avoid phobic
stimulus
- 5. phobia
disrupts
everyday life
- 6. individual
under 18 duration
is at least 6
months
- 1. significant
prolonged fear of
object or situation
- problems with validity
and reliability
- problems
w/ validity:
- rosenham 1973: conducted study where people
who didnt have mental health problem got
themselves admitted to psychiatric unit -
pseudopatients. once admitted, they behaved
'normally'. however their behaviour still seen as
symptom of their disorder by staff . e.g one
pseudopatient who wrote in diary was described as
having 'writing behaviour'. questions validity - once
people labelled as having disorder, all of behaviour
seen as caused by disorder
- rosenham 1973: conducted study where people
who didnt have mental health problem got
themselves admitted to psychiatric unit -
pseudopatients. once admitted, they behaved
'normally'. however their behaviour still seen as
symptom of their disorder by staff . e.g one
pseudopatient who wrote in diary was described as
having 'writing behaviour'. questions validity - once
people labelled as having disorder, all of behaviour
seen as caused by disorder
- problems w/ reliability
- clinicians can show bias when they're diagnosing
mental disorders. johnstone 1989 found patients
from lower social classes tended to me given
more serious diagnoses than patients from higher
social classes. questions reliability of diagnosis -
patients display same symptoms but receive
different diagnoses because of social
background
- clinicians can show bias when they're diagnosing
mental disorders. johnstone 1989 found patients
from lower social classes tended to me given
more serious diagnoses than patients from higher
social classes. questions reliability of diagnosis -
patients display same symptoms but receive
different diagnoses because of social
background
- unclear how
many you
have to fulfil
- what do you count as
excessive fear?
culturally specific
- japanese recognise
unique social phobia - fear
of embarrassing others in
social situation
- japanese recognise
unique social phobia - fear
of embarrassing others in
social situation
- problems
w/ validity:
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