- Compare an anxiety disorder with an adjustment disorder (similarities and differences).
- Explain factors that complicate a diagnosis of anxiety versus an adjustment disorder.
- Using the case “Leni: Worried About Worrying So Much”, explain how ethnicity and background may affect the diagnosis.
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Leni: Worried About Worrying So Much:
Leni is a 24-year-old graduate student. Although she is doing exceptionally well in her program, for the past year she has worried constantly that she will fail and be thrown out. When her fellow students and professors try to reassure her, Leni worries that they are just pretending to be nice to her because she is such a weak student. Leni also worries about her mother becoming ill and about whether she is really liked by her friends. Although Leni is able to acknowledge that her fears are excessive (she has supportive friends, her mother is in good health, and, based on her grades, Leni is one of the top students in her program), she still struggles to control her worrying. Leni has difficulty sleeping, often feels nervous and on edge, and experiences a great deal of muscle tension. When her friends suggested she take a yoga class to try and relax, Leni even began to worry about that, fearing that she would be the worse student in the class. “I know it makes no sense,” she says, “But that’s how I am. I’ve always been a worrier. I even worry about worrying so much!”
This case study is from Abnormal Psychology- Sixteenth Edition by James N. Butcher, Jill M. Hooley and Susan Mineka. (2014)
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