Chapter 9 - Anxiety

Video Resources

Crash Course Psychology: OCD and Anxiety Disorders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX7jnVXXG5o

A brief overview of obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety disorders.

Afraid of People

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmEJEfy5f50

A documentary about social anxiety disorder.

Dealing with Anxiety and Panic Attacks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32K-rEIbBgE

A video about how panic attacks can develop.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh8TLaXGvMs

A brief video describing obsessive compulsive disorder.

My Battle with Social Anxiety and How I Overcame It

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXEXeUbJjTA

A video made by someone who suffers from Social Anxiety Disorder

My Extreme Animal Phobia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDvDCqLCdEE

A video of someone who has a dog phobia.

Snake Phobia Behavioral Therapy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKTpecooiec

A video showing how specific phobia is treated using cognitive behavioral techniques.

Related links

The Anxiety and Depression Association’s Understanding Anxiety Page

http://www.adaa.org/understanding-anxiety

Web MD’s Page on Anxiety

http://www.webmd.com/anxiety-panic/guide/mental-health-anxiety-disorders

Journals That Regularly Publish Articles About Anxiety

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/abn/

Depression and Anxiety

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291520-6394

Related Empirical Articles

Barlow, D. H. (2000). Unraveling the mysteries of anxiety and its disorders from the perspective of emotion theory. American Psychologist, 55(11), 1247–63.

Lewis-Fernández, R., Hinton, D. E., Laria, A. J., Patterson, E. H., Hofmann, S. G., Craske, M. G., ... & Liao, B. (2011). Culture and the anxiety disorders: recommendations for DSM-V. Anxiety, 9(3), 351–68.

This chapter begins with an overview of the psychosocial problem theory, which states that the problems (i.e., symptoms) associated with a diagnosis provide more information than the diagnosis itself.  The chapter then presents several psychosocial problems from this perspective, including panic attacks, troubling thoughts, and phobia and compulsions. It ends with a summary of treatment options that correspond to each psychosocial problem discussed.