Anxiety disorders mindmap

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  • Created on: 07-06-17 04:14
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  • Anxiety disorders
    • Features
      • Intensity
      • Impairment
      • Chronicity
    • Prevalence
      • Girls more likely
      • 15-20% of youths
      • Lots of comorbidity
    • Barlow's triple vulnerability theory
      • Early socio-emotional experiences
      • Genetic risk
      • Specific socio-emotional experiences
    • SAD
      • Features
        • Unique to childhood
        • Common
        • Insecure parent-child attachment may contribute
      • Worry about being alone, distress on seperation to caregiver
    • Panic disorder & agoraphobia
      • Panic attack
        • Intense episode of distress
        • Attack A
          • Calm > anxious > calm
        • Attack B
          • Calm > anxious > continued anxiousness
        • Attack C
          • Anxiousness > anxious (acute) > calm
      • Panic disorder
        • Worry about panic attacks
        • High anxiety sensitivity
        • May personalise attacks
        • Catastrophic thinking
      • Agoraphobia
        • Avoid places or situations where escape is not possible without effort or embarassment
    • Specific phobia
      • For objects or situations
      • Two-factor theory
        • Acquired: classical conditioning
        • Maintained: negative reinforcement
      • Learning theory
        • Classical condiitoning
        • Observation
      • Blood/injection
        • Sensitive vasovagal response
    • OCD
      • Recurrent, unwanted obsessions & compulsions
      • 80% washing & grooming compulsions
      • Brain structure
        • Dysregulation of corti-striatal thalamic circuit
          • Irregularities in environment
      • Cognitive factors
        • Thought-action fusion
      • PANDAs theory
        • OCD symptoms follow strep infections
      • Co-occurrences
        • Trichotillomania
        • Tics
        • Excoriation
    • GAD
      • Excessive worry about future events
      • Worries
        • Intensity
        • Number
        • Duration
      • Borkvec's cognitive avoidance theory
        • Worry about minor things to avoid mental images associated with neg. events
      • Rumination
    • Social anxiety disorder
      • Fear of social performance situtations
      • Temperament
        • High behavioural inhibition
      • Parents contribute
        • Overcontrolling/protective
        • Hostile or critical comments
        • Avoid emotionally-charged discussions
        • Model anxiety
      • Features
        • inadequate eye contact
        • Soft speech
        • Rigid posture
        • Low assertiveness
    • Causes
      • Family
        • Parent characteristics
          • Protective
          • Overcontrolling
          • Encourage avoidant coping
          • Anxious
        • Unstable home environment
      • Biological
        • Genetic inheritance
        • Neural circuits shaped by early experience
      • Attachment
        • Insecurity
          • Internlises image of the world as unsafe
    • Treatments
      • Exposure therapy
      • Behavioural
        • Modelling
        • Contingency managment
        • Systematic desensitisation
      • CBT
        • Kendall's CBT
          • Identify & challenge thoughts
        • For panic disorder
          • Relaxation training
          • Interoceptive exposure
          • Cognitive restructuring
        • For OCD
          • Exposure with response prevention
      • Medication
        • SSRIs

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