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Anxiety Disorders:
Phobias
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What is a phobia?
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With a partner write down your own definition.
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Once complete we will discuss your answers.
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Official definition of a phobia:
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A phobia is defined as an irrational, intense fear of an object or
situation that poses little or no actual danger. At first glance, a
phobia may seem similar to a normal fear, but it's is the degree
to which a person is affected that determines whether that fear
has become a phobia.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=4tEIh_fJ_9g
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What is the difference between a
fear and a phobia?
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What is the difference between a
fear and a phobia?
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Up to a fifth of people suffer from a fear or phobia (are you one of
them?)
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The difference between fears and phobias is the degree of suffering.
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A fear of snakes is not often a problem in the UK & we can kind of get
away with a fear of heights if we let someone else climb the ladder!
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A phobia is characterised by a marked and persistent fear.
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You will know that you are reacting completely over the top.
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Just thinking about the feared situation may cause you to feel the panic
rising.
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You are desperate to avoid it and/or you worry endlessly in anticipation
of being exposed to it.
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What do you think the 10 most
common phobias are?
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What do you think the 10 most
common phobias are?
1 ) Arachnophobia
2) Sociaphobia
3) Aviophobia
4) Agoraphobia
5) Claustrophobia
6) Acrophobia
7) Emetophobia
8) Carcinophobia
9) Brontophobia
10) Necrophobia
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What do you think the 10 most
common phobias are?
1 ) Arachnophobia
2) Sociaphobia (slide coming up – DSM
5)
3) Aviophobia
4) Agoraphobia (Aoraphobia is a form of anxiety disorder, the
abnormal fear of expecting or experiencing a difficult or embarrassing
situation from which the sufferer cannot find an escape.
5) Claustrophobia
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What do you think the 10 most
common phobias are?
6) Acrophobia
7) Emetophobia (an excessive or
irrational fear of vomiting)
8) Carcinophobia (Fear of Cancer)
9) Brontophobia
10) Necrophobia (Fear of death or dead things)
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DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for
300.23 Social Phobia
1) A marked and persistent fear of one or more social or
performance situations in which the person is exposed to
unfamiliar people or to possible scrutiny by others. The individual
fears that he or she will act in a way (or show anxiety symptoms)
that will be humiliating or embarrassing. Note: In children, there
must be evidence of the capacity for age-appropriate social
relationships with familiar people and the anxiety must occur in
peer settings, not just in interactions with adults.
2) Exposure to the feared social situation almost invariably
provokes anxiety, which may take the form of a situationally bound
or situationally predisposed Panic Attack. Note: In children, the
anxiety may be expressed by crying, tantrums, freezing, or
shrinking from social situations with unfamiliar people.
3) The person recognizes that the fear is excessive or
unreasonable. Note: In children, this feature may be absent.
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Group tasks
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Features and symptoms of phobias
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Psychological Explanation of Phobias: Learning Approach
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Psychodynamic Explanation of Phobias
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Observational conditioning of fear-relevant Vs fearirrelevant stimuli in rhesus monkeys (Cook and Mineka,
1989) – key study
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1) Features and symptoms of
phobias:
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Definition
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Common types
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2) Psychological Explanation of
Phobias: Learning Approach
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Classical conditioning
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Operant conditioning
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Two process theory – Mowrer, 1947
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SLT
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EVALUATION
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3) Psychodynamic Explanation of
Phobias
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Displacement
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Repression
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EVALUAION
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4) Observational conditioning of
fear-relevant Vs fear-irrelevant
stimuli in rhesus monkeys (Cook
and Mineka, 1989) – key study
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APRC
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GRAVE
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What you need to produce
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An interesting interactive powerpoint
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With a quiz at the end
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Including a hand out (within this add any exam questions,
mark schemes and potential exam questions)
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Read this:
http://www.anxietyuk.org.uk/about-anxiety/diagnostic-andstatistical-manual-of-mental-disorders-dsm/
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Key areas in detail:
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Systematic Desensitisation (classical conditioning)
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Little Albert Study
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