List and describe any two anxiety disorders. Give two models' viewpoints on how these disorders develop
What will be an ideal response?
* Phobias are intense, excessive fears of activities, objects, or situations.
* Panic disorder is the most severe of the anxiety disorders and is characterized by an intense physiological arousal not related to a specific stimulus.
* Generalized anxiety disorder is a chronically high level of anxiety that is not attached to a specific stimulus.
* Obsessive-compulsive disorder is characterized by repetitive, irrational, intrusive thoughts, impulses, or images and irresistible impulses to engage repeatedly in some act.
*Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a reaction to a traumatic or life-threatening situation that is characterized by repeated re-experience of the traumatic event, avoidance of reminders of the situation, emotional numbness, and increased arousal.
* The response should also select two of the following: the medical, psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, or sociocultural models to explain the development of the disorders. (See Study Chart: Anxiety Disorders, p. 496.)
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