¶ … biological perspective: suggests that the tendency to develop anxiety disorders may be partly genetic. While environment might have caused the results of the family studies, recent research on brains have shown difficulty with specific neurotransmitters that suggests a problem with the feedback system in the brain that would otherwise quell feelings of fear and panic. Anxiety isn't that simple because several neurotransmitters bind at GABA's receptor as well. Medications can help with anxiety as can relaxation training and biofeedback. Phobias: enduring but irrational, strong fears of certain objects (ex: snakes) or situations (ex: claustrophobia). Phobias are distinguished from other fears in that they are very intense and cause the person to go to some lengths to avoid the feared thing, which can cause social or even employment problems for the person.

Specific phobia: means the fear is clearly identifiable -- a snake, or high places.

Social phobia: the...

Agorophobia is often accompanied by panic attacks.
What causes phobias? All the models discussed explain phobias according to their philosophy, but classical conditioning, where an event is paired with another stimulus, so that the person reacts to both with fear. So if you were faced with danger while in an elevator, you might then associate closed spaces with danger. Or a person can learn fear from another person (modeling). However, neither has been proven in research. Systematic desensitization, where the person is gradually exposed to more and more fearful examples of the object or situation, can help a person overcome a phobia. Exposure, medication and cognitive therapies can be done with social phobias, as well as social skills training.

Panic Disorder: panic attacks can make the person feel they have no control over what they're…