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Anxiety Learning Center

Because humans are social creatures, anxiety often has a social dimension. People frequently report feelings of high anxiety when they anticipate or fear the loss of social approval or love. Social phobia is a specific anxiety disorder that is mar...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Anxiety often has a social dimension because humans are social creatures. People frequently report feelings of high anxiety when they anticipate and, therefore, fear the loss of social approval or love. Social phobia is a specific anxiety disorder...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Anxiety often has a social dimension because humans are social creatures. People frequently report feelings of high anxiety when they anticipate—and therefore fear—the loss of social approval or love. Social phobia is a specific anxiety disorder t...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Stress is defined as an organism's total response to environmental demands or pressures. When stress was first studied in the 1950s, the term was used to denote both the causes and the experienced effects of these pressures. More recently, however...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Stress can come from any situation or thought that makes you feel frustrated, angry, or anxious. What is stressful to one person is not necessarily stressful to another. Anxiety is a feeling of apprehension or fear. The source of this uneasiness i...
Source:ADAM
Date:December 15, 2008
Disturbance in the physiology of the individual. Among psychologists and psychiatrists, stress refers to a psychological reaction within the person to events that generate strong emotion that cannot be easily regulated; for other social scientists...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Stress is defined as an organism's total response to environmental demands or pressures. When stress was first studied in the 1950s, the term was used to denote both the causes and the experienced effects of these pressures. Since the 1990s, howev...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Stress is a term that refers to the sum of the physical, mental, and emotional strains or tensions on a person. Feelings of stress in humans result from interactions between persons and their environment that are perceived as straining or exceedin...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Over the course of evolution, the human mind and body have developed means of handling stressful situations. Over the short term, such stress response pathways are highly adaptive, allowing a person to manage his or her resources in order to navig...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
Stress is an individual's physical and mental reaction to environmental demands or pressures.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Personality disorders (PD) are a group of psychiatric conditions characterized by experience and behavior patterns that cause serious problems with respect to any two of the following: thinking, mood, personal relations, and the control of impulses.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Personality disorders are a group of psychiatric conditions in which chronic behavior patterns cause serious problems with relationships and work.
Source:ADAM
Date:October 17, 2008
A psychosocial disorder is a mental illness caused or influenced by life experiences, as well as maladjusted cognitive and behavioral processes.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Long-standing, deeply ingrained patterns of social behavior that are detrimental to those who display them or to others.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
A traumatic event is an experience that causes physical, emotional, psychological distress, or harm. It is an event that is perceived and experienced as a threat to one's safety or to the stability of one's world. A traumatic event may involve: A ...
Source:ADAM
Date:May 8, 2008
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