Abnormal Psychology

Anxiety Disorders 319 to the traumatic event that precipitated their disorder. Moreover, this drug resulted in more extreme bioc ...

320 CHAPTER 7 People can be vulnerable to developing PTSD for a variety of reasons. For example, people with severe mental disor ...

Anxiety Disorders 321 themselves or their families have fewer emotional resources available to cope with a traumatic event and s ...

322 CHAPTER 7 Treating Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Treatments for PTSD target neurological, psychological, and social factors; ...

Anxiety Disorders 323 Targeting Neurological Factors: Medication The SSRIs sertraline (Zoloft) and paroxetine (Paxil) are the fi ...

324 CHAPTER 7 associated with the trauma (Bryant & Harvey, 2000; Keane & Barlow, 2002). In this case, the specifi c stim ...

Anxiety Disorders 325 Key Concepts and Facts About Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Stress disorders are characterized by three ty ...

326 CHAPTER 7 Howard Hughes and Anxiety Disorders We’ve seen that Howard Hughes may have had enough symptoms of social phobia to ...

Anxiety Disorders 327 Summary of Common Features of Anxiety Disorders The key symptoms of anxiety disorders are ex- treme anxiet ...

328 CHAPTER 7 conditioning of a fear response in social situ- ations may contribute to social phobia; avoid- ing feared social s ...

Anxiety Disorders 329 Brain areas involved in PTSD include parts of the frontal lobe, the hippocampus, the locus coeruleus, and ...

...

Mood Disorders CHAPTER 8 Chapter Outline A nna O., a well-to-do 21-year-old woman living in Austria in the late 19th century, ha ...

332 CHAPTER 8 individual mental process is not disturbed, but their normal integrated function- ing is disturbed. (With schizoph ...

Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders 333 the person’s body. Later, the person has amnesia for the experience. At fi rst glance, ...

334 CHAPTER 8 anddissociative identity disorder. People whose symptoms do not fi t neatly into the criteria of one of these diso ...

Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders 335 Some people may spontaneously remember the forgotten experiences or infor- mation, par ...

336 CHAPTER 8 hippocampus is a critical gate-keeper of memory; without it, new information about facts cannot be stored. If dama ...

Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders 337 Although aspects of both dissociation and neodissociation theories have received some ...

338 CHAPTER 8 Table 8.4 • Dissociative Fugue Facts at a Glance Prevalence This disorder is rare, occurring in approx- imately 0 ...