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anxiety
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state of apprehension, tension, and worry
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neurosis
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disorders in which the anxiety aroused by unconscious conflicts could not be quelled or channeled...
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panic attacks
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short but intense periods in which she experiences many symptoms of anxiety: heart palpitations,...
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panic disorder
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when panic attacks become a common occurrence, when the panic attacks are usually not provoked...
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norepinephrine
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neurotransmitter involved in panic disorder
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locus ceruleus
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area of the brain stem that plays a part in the emergency response and may be involved in panic...
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limbic system
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part of the brain that relays information from the primitive brain stem about changes in bodily...
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anxiety sensitivity
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the belief that bodily symptoms have harmful consequences
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interoceptive awareness
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a heightened awareness of bodily cues that a panic attack may happen soon
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tricyclic antidepressents
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can reduce panic attacks in the majority of patients (imipramine)
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selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
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class of antidepressant drugs (paxil, prozac, zoloft, and celexa)
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benzodiazepines
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supresses the central nervous system and influences functioning in the GABA, norpinephrine,...
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systematic desensitization therapy
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exposes the client gradually to the situations they most fear while helping them maintain control...
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agoraphobia
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people fear crowded, bustling places, such as the marketplace. thehy also fear encloesd spaces,...
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specific phobias
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extreme fears of specific objects or situations that cause an individual to routinely avoid...
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animal type phobias
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phobia focused on specific animals or insects
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natural environment type phobias
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phobia focused on events or situations in the natural environment, such as storms, heights,...
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situational type phobias
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phobia usually involving a fear of public transportation, tunnels, bridges, elevators, flying,...
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blood-injection-injury type phobias
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phobia involving seeing blood or an injury
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social phobia
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a phobia in which people fear being judged or embarrassing themselves
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negative reinforcement
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the running away, or avoidance, is reinforced by the subsequent reduction of their anxiety
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safety signal hypothesis
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people remember vividly the places in which they have had panic attacks, even if the panic...
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prepared classical conditioning
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theory that evolution has prepared people to be easily conditioned to fear objects or situations...
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systematic desensitization
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clients formulate lists of situations or objects they fear, ranked from most feared to least...
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applied tension technique
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technique used to treat blood-injection-injury type phobias in which the therapist teaches...
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modeling
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process of learning behaviors by imitation others, especially authority figures or those like...
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flooding (implosive therapy)
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to intensively expose a client to his or her feared object until anxiety extinguishes
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self-efficiancy expectations
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creating the expectations in clients that they can master their problems; a potent factor in...
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generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
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anxiety disorder characterized by chronic anxiety in daily life
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realistic anxiety
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anxiety when we face a real danger or threat, such as an oncoming tornado
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neurotic anxiety
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anxiety that occurs when we are repeatedly prevented from expressing our id impulses. the energy...
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moral anxiety
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anxiety that occurs when we have been punished for expressing our id impulses, and we come...
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conditions of worth
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harsh self-standards they feel they must meet in order to be acceptable
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existential anxiety
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a universal human fear of the limits and responsibilities of one's existence
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automatic thoughts
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thoughts that come to mind quickly and without intention, causing emotions such as fear or...
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gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)
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a neurotransmitter that carries inhibitory messages from one neuron to another
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buspirone
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alleviates the ysmptoms of generalized anxiety for some people; it has few side effects and...
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obesessions
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thoughts, images, ideas, or impulses that are persistent, that the individual feels intrude...
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compulsions
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repetitive behaviors or mental acts that an individual feels he or she must perform
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obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
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an anxiety disorder in which people experience anxiety as a result of their obsessional thoughts...
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caudate nucleus
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a part of the basal ganglia which allows only the strongest of these impulses to carry through...
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ataque de nervios
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attack of the nerves; a Lation cultural type of anxiety
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taijin kyofu-sho
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Japanese anxiety- an intense fear of interpersonal relations
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