The Fear Course Dictionary of Emotional Resilience, Emotion Regulation, Fear and Anxiety
There are 30 entries in this glossary.All
- Acarophobia
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Phobia. Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching. Fear of skin infestation by mites or ticks
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
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A research and evidence based therapy for fear, anxiety and nervousness and is a form of mindfulness where the client is taught to just observe or notice their thoughts, feelings, and emotions and learn not to judge them. In this way negative emotions, thoughts and feelings become less impactful for the individual. See article at http://www.fearcourse.org/articles-and-notes/290-anxiety-treatment-review-acceptance-and-commitment-therapy-act.html for more details.
Aliases: ACT - Affect Consciousness
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The mutual relationship between activation of basic affective experiences and the individual's capacity to consciously perceive, tolerate, reflect upon and express these experiences.
- Affect heuristic
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An emotion or affect that becomes a "rule of thumb" that informs a decision or brings one about without deliberate and conscious decision making.
- Affect Theory
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A branch of psychoanalysis that attempts to organize affects into discrete categories and connect each one with its typical (usually behavioural - a smile for example)response.
- Anxiety
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n. 1. A state of uneasiness and apprehension, for example about future uncertainties. 2. A cause of nervousness or fear. 3. A state of intense apprehension, uncertainty, and fear resulting from the anticipation of a threatening event or situation, or memory of a past often traumatic event, often to a degree that normal physical and psychological functioning is disrupted.
Symptoms include:
A. The somatic or physical symptoms of anxiety include headaches, dizziness or light-headedness, nausea and/or vomiting, diarrhea, tingling, pale complexion, sweating, numbness, difficulty in breathing, and sensations of tightness in the chest, neck, shoulders, or hands. These symptoms are produced by the hormonal, muscular, and cardiovascular reactions involved in the fight-or-flight reaction. Children and adolescents with generalized anxiety disorder show a high percentage of physical complaints.
B. Behavioural symptoms of anxiety include pacing, trembling, general restlessness, hyperventilation, pressured speech, hand wringing, or finger tapping.
C. Cognitive symptoms of anxiety include recurrent or obsessive thoughts, feelings of doom, morbid or fear-inducing thoughts or ideas, and confusion, or inability to concentrate or think and negative thinking.
D. Feeling states associated with anxiety include tension or nervousness, feeling "hyper" or "keyed up," and feelings of unreality, panic, or terror. Feeling like they want to run away or of aggression or displacement behaviour such as playing video games rather than solving the problem. A form of flight.
E. In psychoanalytic theory, the symptoms of anxiety in humans may arise from or activate a number of unconscious defense mechanisms. Because of these defenses, it is possible for a person to be anxious without being consciously aware of it or appearing anxious to others.
F. FFFs - Flight, fight or Freeze syndrome.
- Anxiolytic
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adj. Preventing or reducing anxiety; antianxiety. n. An antianxiety medication; a tranquilizer.
- Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI)
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Created by Dr. Aaron T. Beck, is a 21-question multiple-choice self-report inventory that is used for measuring the severity of an individual's anxiety. Evidence suggests the scale is best at assessing panic symptomatology
Aliases: BAI - Catastrophize
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The process of constructing or perceiving a situation to be much worse than it is in reality. Catastrophizing is strongly correlated to depressive conditions.
Aliases: Catastrophizing, catastrophized, catastrophise (GB), catastrophising (GB) - Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
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A term which embraces a wide range of therapeutic and research approaches to helping people deal with and solve emotional, behavioural and cognitive (thinking) issues and problems such as depression, anxiety, OCD, and fear related issues. (see http://www.fearcourse.com/articles-and-notes/288-what-is-cbt-cognitive-behavioral-therapy.html)
Aliases: CBT - Discrete Emotions Theory (DET)
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A view of emotional development which argues that emotions are innate, discrete from one another from a very early age, and each emotion is believed to be packaged with a specific and distinctive set of bodily and facial reactions.
Aliases: Differential Emotions Theory, DET - Emotion Regulation
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The ability to properly regulate one's emotions. It is a complex process that involves the initiating, inhibiting, or modulating the following aspects of functioning:
- internal feeling states (i.e. the subjective experience of emotion),
- emotion-related cognition's (e.g. thought reactions to a situation),
- emotion-related physiological processes (e.g. heart rate, hormonal, or other physiological reactions), and
- emotion-related behavior (e.g. actions or facial expressions related to emotion).
Aliases: Emotional Self-Regulation, ER - Emotional Dysregulation
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An emotional response that is poorly modulated, and does not fall within the conventionally accepted range of emotive response. ED may be referred to as labile mood or mood swings.
Aliases: Labile Mood, Mood Swing - Emotional Incontinence
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A neurologic disorder characterized by involuntary crying or uncontrollable episodes of crying and/or laughing, or other emotional displays.
Aliases: Pseudobulbar affect (PBA), Labile Affect - Emotional self-regulation
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The ability to properly regulate one's emotions. It is a complex process that involves the initiating, inhibiting, or modulating the following aspects of functioning:
- internal feeling states (i.e. the subjective experience of emotion),
- emotion-related cognition's (e.g. thought reactions to a situation),
- emotion-related physiological processes (e.g. heart rate, hormonal, or other physiological reactions), and
- emotion-related behavior (e.g. actions or facial expressions related to emotion).
Aliases: Emotion Regulation, ER - ER
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The ability to properly regulate one's emotions. It is a complex process that involves the initiating, inhibiting, or modulating the following aspects of functioning:
- internal feeling states (i.e. the subjective experience of emotion),
- emotion-related cognition's (e.g. thought reactions to a situation),
- emotion-related physiological processes (e.g. heart rate, hormonal, or other physiological reactions), and
- emotion-related behavior (e.g. actions or facial expressions related to emotion).
Aliases: Emotional Self-Regulation, Emotion Regulation - Heuristic
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Adj. Experience-based techniques or rule that helps in problem solving, learning and discovery.
In psychology, heuristics are simple, efficient rules, hard-coded by evolutionary processes or learned, which it is proposed explains how people make decisions, come to judgments, and solve problems, typically when facing complex problems or ones with incomplete information. These rules work well under most circumstances, but in certain cases lead to systematic errors or cognitive bias.
Aliases: Rule
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