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CHAPTER 14<br />

Anxiety Disorders<br />

What are the most prevalent psychiatric<br />

disorders?<br />

What are the major types of anxiety<br />

disorders?<br />

What is the most prominent feature<br />

of all anxiety disorders?<br />

What differentiates anxiety disorders<br />

from healthy anxiety?<br />

What are the DSM-IV-TR diagnostic<br />

criteria for GAD?<br />

Anxiety disorders<br />

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)<br />

Panic disorder<br />

Social phobia<br />

Specific phobia<br />

Obsessive-compulsive disorder<br />

Agoraphobia<br />

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)<br />

Acute stress disorder (ASD)<br />

The presence of a sense of impending<br />

doom or threat<br />

Anxiety out of proportion to actual<br />

threat which causes significant distress<br />

or impairment<br />

Six months of excessive anxiety and<br />

worry, more days than not, that are<br />

difficult to control. Plus three or<br />

more of the following:<br />

Restlessness<br />

Fatigue<br />

Tension<br />

Sleep disturbance<br />

Irritability<br />

Decreased concentration<br />

Note: The worry may not be about<br />

symptoms of another disorder, eg,<br />

worrying about having a panic<br />

attack is panic disorder, not GAD.<br />

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