A Neuro-cognitive Update on the Understanding of Anxiety Disorders
Dr. Marwa Azab, Professional Counselor, Professor & Neuroscientist
About the expert
Learning objectives
- Differentiate between adaptive worry and pathological worry
- Identify at least three cognitive mechanisms that maintain chronic worry in generalized anxiety disorder
- Identify positive and negative beliefs about worry and explain how they contribute to the maintenance of GAD
- Explain how intolerance of uncertainty influences emotions and their regulation in GAD clients; Explain how elevated anxiety symptoms contribute to accelerated cognitive decline
Learning material
A theoretical course illustrated with clinical examples. This course consists of videos of 5 to 15 minutes each. The course PowerPoint is available for download.
Syllabus
- PowerPoint
- 1. Introduction
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Understanding GAD
- 2. Anxiety
- 3. Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- 4. High Worriers vs GAD Patients vs Other Anxiety Patients
- 5. Worry
- 6. Positive Beliefs About Worry
- 7. Poor Problem Orientation
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Cognitive Vulnerabilities and Maintaining Mechanisms
- 8. GAD and Intolerance of Uncertainty
- 9. IU Biases Emotional Experience
- 10. Is IU a Cognitive Vulnerability Specific to GAD?
- 11. Waiting Well
- 12. Negative Beliefs about Worry
- 13. Chronic Worry Protects Against Abrupt Shifts
- 14. Attentional Bias, Cognitive Control, and Threat Controllability
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Etiology and Biology
- 15. Etiological Factors: Genetics
- 16. Genetic Factors
- 17. Environmental & Developmental Factors
- 18. Anxiety and Stress
- 19. Nervous System Activation and the HPA Axis
- 20. Chronic Stress and Hippocampal Damage
- 21. Brain and GAD
- 22. Conclusion
- Bibliography
CE Credits
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Audience
This course is intended for all mental health professionals.
Registration
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