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.