Anxiety Disorders

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SOCIAL AGENCY

These are the agencies that provide health, welfare and rehabilitation services. The aim is to improve quality of life.

SOCIAL IDENTITY

1. These are the personal qualities that a person has and displays to others consistently that they part of your

SOCIAL PHYSIQUE ANXIETY

an anxiety manifest about we think other people will perceive us by our physical appearance.

SOCIOCULTURAL FACTORS

These are the environmental conditions that play a part in adaptive and healthy behaviour and wellbeing or just the opposite.

SPIDER PHOBIA

the persistent and often irrational fear of spiders. It is a specific phobia called arachnophobia.

STEREOTYPE

a set of generalisations about a group of people or a social category. It may correct or incorrect. Mostly, these

STRESS-INOCULATION TRAINING (SIT)

Consists of 4 stages which make a person learn stress management techniques. The first stage is the identification of stress.

SUBTHERAPEUTIC DOSE

Dosage of the medicine that will not provide desired result. sometimes done in order to get contrary result. basically not

SUSCEPTIBILITY

1. The vulnerability or increased likelihood of being affected by a disease or illness. 2. The capacity to feel deep

TASK STRUCTURE

it is the structure in which the means to the end; everything is structured properly to perform a task. To

SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS

1. A personality trait of reflection about yourself. 2. See reflective consciousness. 3. Sensitivity about our own behaviour, appearance and

SELF-PERCEPTION THEORY

The theory that states people only have a limited access to the attitudes, beliefs, traits or their psychological states. We

SENSORY OVERLOAD

a state where our senses are overwhelmed by stimuli where a person is unable to process and respond to all

SIMULTANEOUS CONDITIONING

Pavlovian technique where conditioned stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus are presented at the same time.

SOCIAL APPROVAL

the positive appraisal and acceptance of a person by a social group. It can include compliments, praise, etc. Compare it

SOCIAL INCENTIVE

an inducement to behave in an approved way that involves offering interpersonal rewards like acceptance, inclusion, approval that quality of

SOCIAL PUNISHMENT

any negative stimulus like shunning, emotional withdrawal or sign of disapproval. Compare social reinforcement.

SOCIOCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE

1. A viewpoint to mental health and health, politics, history and other areas of human experience that emphasises the environmental

SPLITTING

a primitive defence mechanism where objects that evoke anxiety are dealt with by compartmentalising the negative and positive emotions. It

STIGMA

The characteristic of an individual that may develop a socially negative attitude towards the individual. This may be due to