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what are phobias?

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excessive or unreasonable fears of objects, places or situations

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when is the phobic stimulus avoided or endured?

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with intense anxiety or distress

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specific phobia DSM-5 critera

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marked or fear anxiety about a specific object or situation

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types of phobias

5 types

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  • animal (spiders, insects)
  • natural environment (heights, water)
  • blood-injection-injury (needles)
  • situational (planes, elevators)
  • other
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social phobia DSM-5

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marked fear or anxiety about one or more social situations in which the individual is exposed to possible scrutiny by others

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types of social phobia

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  • performance situations (public speaking)
  • general (eating in public)
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prevalence and gender ratio

lifetime prevalence & specific phobias

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  • lifetime prevalence around 12%
  • more common in women than men
  • most patients with specific phobia have at least one other excessive specific fear
  • most patients with social phobia suffer from on ore more additional anxiety disorders
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theories

psychodynamic (Freud)

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phobias result when unconsious anxiety is displaced onto a neutral or sympolic object
e.g. Hans Oedipal fears of his father - desire to kill his father - became unbearble and was displaced onto horses

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theories

behavioural: Ost and Hugdhal 1981: phobic clients

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58% of phobic clients cited traumatic conditioning experiences as the source of phobia

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theories

behavioural: McCabe et al 2003: teasing

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92% socially phobic adults reported a
history of severe childhood teasing

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Mowrer’s two factor theory of phobia acquisition/maintenece (1947)

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1) Classical conditioning: rat paired with loud noise -> conditioned fear.
2) Operant conditioning: individual avoids rats.
* Prevents extinction
* Reduces anxiety, produces relief, thus avoidance is reinforced.

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evolutionary preparedness

what is prepared learning

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when primates seem evolutionarily prepared to rapidly associate certain objects with frightening or unpleasant events

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evolutionary preparedness

what are prepared fears?

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they are not innate but easily acquired and resistant to extinction

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what is tryphobia?

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when individuals have an aversion towards clusters of roughly circular shapes

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treatment: exposure therapy

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e.g. someone with a fear of snakes may be instructed to handle a snake or someone with social anxiety might be instructed to giva speech in front of an audience

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treatment: CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy)

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e.g. to treat social phobias

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what is obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

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occurrence of unwanted and intrusive obsessive thoughts or distressing images

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what does a person with OCD feel?

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  • they feel driven to perform a compulsive ritualistic behaviour in response to an obsession
  • they need to follow very rigid rules regarding how the compulsive behaviour should be performed
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classification controversy

DSM-IV & 5 OCD

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  • in the DSM-IV OCD was categorised under ‘anxiety disorders’
  • it was then removed from this category and was grouped under “obsessive-compulsive and related disorders” in the DSM 5
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DSM-5 obsession definitions

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  • recurrent and persistant thoughts/impulses that are experienced as intrusive, disturbing, inappropriate and uncontrollable
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how do individuals try and suppress obsessions

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with some other thought or action

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frequent types of obsessions

3 types

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  • contamination
  • repeated doubts
  • odering
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obsessions

agressive or blasphemous impulses

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  • to shout an obscenity in a church
  • to hurt a loved one
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obsessions

sexual thought and imagery

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a reccurent pornographic image - that violates one’s morals

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DSM-5 compulsions definition
repetitive behaviours or mental acts the person feels driven to perform in repsonse to an obsession, or according to rigid rules
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compulsions: repetitive behaviours | 4 examples
* hand washing * ordering * cleaning * hoarding
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compulsions: mental acts | 4 examples
* counting * praying * saying words silently * thinking good thoughts to undo bad ones
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compulsion: washing rituals | 2 rituals
* washing hands for about 20 minutes after using the toilet * washing hands for hours with disinfectants up to the point of bleeding
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compulsions: checking | 2 examples
* all the lights, appliances, and locks 2-3 times before leaving the house * going back to a junction where one thinks one may have run over a pedestrian
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compulsions and obsessions DSM-5 critera
* obsessions or compulsions are time-consuming or cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important ares of functioning
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insight specifier DSM-5 criteria **good/fair insight**
individual recognises obsessive-compulsive disorder beleifs are definitely or probably not true or that they may or may not be true
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insight specifier DSM-5 criteria **poor insight**
individual thinks O-C disorder beliefs are probably true
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insight specifier DSM-5 criteria **absent insight**
individual is completely convinced that O-C disorder beliefs are true
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insight and executive functions DSM-5 criteria
Recent work on the neuropsychological and cognitive characteristics of OCD patients with poor insight has highlighted the role played by the executive functions in insight.
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OCD examples from celebs: Leo DiCaprio
Leo would step on cracks on the way to school and would have to walk back a block and step on that same crack/gum stain
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what causes OCD?
risk factors and cognitive aetiology
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OCD prevalence
estimated prevalence 1-2% of general population
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OCD gender
equally common in men and women
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when does OCD begin?
usually begins in late adolescence or early adulthood * in childhood disorder is more common in boys than girls
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how many sufferers have another psychological disorder with OCD
50%
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Gender and OCD types:
* themes of sexuality, exactness and symmetry are more common in men * contamination and cleaning more in women
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OCD and culture
culture may influence themes of obsessions and compulsions * example: religious obsessions and compulsions more common in cultures that emphasise the importance of religious observance
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what causes OCD: psychological factors (cognitive intrusions)
* unwanted cognitive intrusions are experienced by most people i.e. unpleasant thoughts * these intrusions typically have similar contents to clinical obsessions
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what causes OCD: appraisals
unwanted cognitive intrusions are experienced by most people * interpretation or appraisal of a thought is **critical**
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what causes OCD: dysfunctional beliefs | 1 point 2 examples
misapprasials are due to dysfunctional beleifs e.g. 1. beleifs about inflated personal responsibility over one's own and other's safety 2. thought-action-fusion - thinking about an unacceptable or disturbing event makes it more likely to happen
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what are obsessional thoughts equivalent to?
forbidden actions
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OCD: dysfunctional beliefs evidence
Tolin et al. 2003: dysfunctional beliefs were associated with OCD symptoms in both clinical and non-clinical samples
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what causes OCD: if thought supression works it should...
if thought supression works, it should leave no mark of the unwanted thought at all
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# what causes OCD: thought supression Wegner et al. 1987 white bear study
* 5 minute supression session, participants had to ring a bell each time a white bear came to mind * participants signaled more than one white bear thought per minute Participants had to supress any thoughts of a bear
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# what causes OCD: thought supression what is the paradoxical rebound effect?
attempts to supress thoughts can 'rebound' and result in an increased occurence of the thoughts
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what do thought supression attempts lead to?
it results in more rather than less intrusions * the paradoxical effect of thought supression may result in full blown obsessions
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results of white bear effect
OCD patients showed faster responses to the word bear than to other words. this effect was not seen in controls
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what causes OCD: distress as a motivators
distress -> attempts to suppress the thought -> attempts to prevent any harmful consequences EXAMPLE: by avoiding knives and continually asking other people to check on the safety of the child
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what causes OCD: psychological factors (compulsions)
compulsive rituals develop as efforts to remove intrusions and to prevent any perceived harmful consequences
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what do comuplsions prevent people with OCD to do?
prevents people with OCD from learning that their appraisals are unrealistic EXAMPLE: the affected individual fails to learn that unwanted harm-related images do not lead to acts of harm
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# TREATMENT OCD: exposure
systematic, repeated, and prolonged confrontation with stimuli that provoke anxiety and the urge to perform compulsive rituals
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# TREATMENT OCD: response prevention
person refrains from performing compulsive rituals
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what do individuals learn from exposure and response preventions? | 4 key points
* anxiety is temporary * the feared catastrophic consequence never transpires * their interpretation of the obsession weakens * obessional thoughts are harmless
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what have randomised controlled trials demonstarted about exposure and response prevention?
RCT have demonstrated that E/RP is more effective than any other forms of psychotherapy and placebos * However E/RP provokes anxiety in patients: approx 25% drop out of treatment
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