Origins of Phobias and Anxiety Disorders

Why More Women than Men?

Michelle G. Craske (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2003
Pergamon Press (Verlag)
978-0-08-044032-3 (ISBN)

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The first title to be published in the "BRAT Series on Clinical Psychology", this book presents a critical analysis of the theories and empirical evidence to date regarding the origins of phobias and anxiety disorders, and the reasons why more women than men suffer from them. The book moves from a discussion of non-specific temperament to specific risk factors for each anxiety disorder, assuming a hierarchical aetiological model throughout. At each level of analysis, the issue of gender differences is addressed. For example, broad temperamental factors such as traits of negative affectivity and poor emotional regulation are reviewed in terms of their relevance to the group of disorders with which anxiety disorders tend to cluster, such as depression and substance abuse. Biological contributions are covered, along with early life experiences including parenting styles and expectations, and early stressors. The components of anxiety - hypervigilance, threat-laden belief systems and avoidant style - are presented as being common across the anxiety disorders and self-perpetuating.
Types of ongoing life experiences that influence the development of one type of anxiety disorder over another are reviewed. Each anxiety disorder is then addressed in detail after considering general principles of fear acquisition and persistence.

Features of fear and anxiety; The function of fear versus anxiety; The disposition to fear and anxiety - negative affectivity; The disposition to fear and anxiety - emotional regulation; Anxious processes; Acquiring and retaining phobias; Domains of threat; Why more women than men?

Reihe/Serie	BRAT Series in Clinical Psychology
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	165 x 240 mm
Gewicht	720 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
ISBN-10	0-08-044032-0 / 0080440320
ISBN-13	978-0-08-044032-3 / 9780080440323
Zustand	Neuware