Anxiety disorders Notes (Psychology: CIE 9990)

This document outlines brief bullet-point-style notes on the Anxiety disorders topic in the Psychology CIE A Level syllabus.
It follows the 2021-2023 syllabus (9990) and includes the following:

• Characteristics of anxiety disorders
• Measures: BIPI; GAD-7
• Explanations of phobias
• Behavioural (classical conditioning, Watson)
• Psychoanalytic (Freud)
• Biomedical/genetic (Ost)
• Cognitive (DiNardo et al.)
• Treatment and management of anxiety disorders
• Systematic desensitisation (Wolpe)
• Applied tension (Ost)
• Cognitive-behavioural therapy (Ost and Westling)

This Word document can be used as a revision tool for students.