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Social Anxiety, Phobia & Etc.

Social Anxiety, Phobia & Etc. Presented by: THE Jeff Thompson. What it is. DSM Classifications: Axis I: Clinical Disorders; Other Conditions That May Be a Focus of Clinical Attention Anxiety Disorders: Specific Phobia | Social Anxiety. Phobias.

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Social Anxiety, Phobia & Etc.

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  1. Social Anxiety, Phobia & Etc. Presented by: THE Jeff Thompson

  2. What it is • DSM Classifications: Axis I: Clinical Disorders; Other Conditions That May Be a Focus of Clinical Attention • Anxiety Disorders: Specific Phobia | Social Anxiety

  3. Phobias • A phobia is a strong, irrational fear of something that poses little or no actual danger. • Physical symptoms include: panic and fear, rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath, trembling, and a strong desire to get away • Treatment includes: medicines, therapy or both. • Approximately 19.2 million American adults age 18 and over, or about 8.7 percent of people in this age group in a given year, have some type of specific phobia. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpVLwD6DlM4

  4. Phobias • Arachnophobia (fear of spiders) • Coulrophobia (Fear of clowns) • Emitophobia (fear of vomiting) • Acrophobia (fear of heights) • Trypanophobia (fear of injections) • Mysophobia (fear of germs and dirt) • Claustrophobia (fear of being trapped in confined spaces) • doomiphobica (the end of the world) • Necrophobia (fear of dead things) • Androphobia (fear of men) • Ophidiophobia (fear of snakes) • Pteromerhanophobia (fear of flying) • Monophobia (fear of being alone) • Xenophobia (fear of strangers) • Carcinophobia (fear of cancer) • Scotophobia (fear of darkness) • Astraphobia (fear of thunder and lightning) • Cynophobia (fear of dogs) • Bibliophobia (fear of books) • Sociophobia (fear of socializing) • Agoraphobia (fear of being caught in stressful situations) • Kleptophobia (fear of stealing)

  5. Explanations for Phobias • You Learn them through conditioning (fear network) (learned helplessness) • Evolution (phobia linked to our evolutionary past) • Genes (neurons that fire together stay together) • Physiology (the brain): amygdala, hippocampus, bed nucleus of the striaterminal (BNST), HPA axis, ventrialmedia of the prefrontal cortex, cortisol, and norepinephrine.

  6. What you talking about Willis? • What makes a phobia different than a fear?

  7. Social Anxiety • People with social anxiety have an intense, persistent, and chronic fear of being watched and judged by others and of doing things that will embarrass them. • Physical symptoms that often accompany social anxiety include blushing, profuse sweating, trembling, nausea, and difficulty talking. • Social phobia affects about 15 million American adults. Women and men are equally likely to develop the disorder. • Social phobia can be successfully treated with certain kinds of psychotherapy or medications. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2491LucLa1g

  8. Social Anxiety • Go to the great picture that will not load!!

  9. What do you know foo? • How is this clip, or the art work an example of Social Anxiety? • What specific examples of the criteria did you see? • E.C: How could you correlate the individual in the clips heroin use with his disorder?

  10. Explanations for Social Anxiety • You Learn them through conditioning (fear network) (learned helplessness) • Evolution (phobia linked to our evolutionary past) • Genes (neurons that fire together stay together) • Physiology (the brain): amygdala, hippocampus, bed nucleus of the striaterminal (BNST), HPA axis, ventrialmedia of the prefrontal cortex, cortisol, and norepinephrine.

  11. Impact • Depression • Suicide • Substance of Abuse • Avoidance Behaviors • Moral Responsibility

  12. Etc. • abbreviation for et cetera • Adv. continuing in the same way. (and so forth, and so on, etcetera)

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