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5: Trauma, Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders Flashcards

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Major stress hormone of the body

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Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) leading to cortisol release

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Prevalence of PTSD

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Lifetime - 6.8%, Current Year - 3.5%

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Criteria of PTSD (6)

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  1. Exposure to event
  2. Intrusion symptoms
  3. Avoidance symptoms
  4. Arousal and reactivity symptoms
  5. Alterations in cognition and mood
  6. Duration greater than 1 month
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Examples of groups with elavated prevalence of PTSD

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Veterans, rape victims, breast cancer patients

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Special type of PTSD with disconnection to self

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PTSD with prominent dissociative symptoms

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Vulnerability factors for PTSD

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Biology, psychology, characteristics of event, and social factors

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Risk of PTSD with cortisol

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Lower cortisol = higher risk

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Treatments for PTSD (4)

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  1. Trauma-focused Cog-Behav Therapy
  2. Stress-management/Relaxation Therapy
  3. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
  4. Biological Treatments (SSRI and benzodiazepines)
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Components of Trauma-focused CBT for PTSD (4)

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  1. Psychoeducation
  2. Anxiety Management
  3. Exposure
  4. Cognitive Restructuring
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Treatment for those unable to tolerate exposure to PTSD event

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Stress-inoculation therapy (targets stress management and effects of PTSD)

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EMDR

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Processes distressing memories to reduce their impact using bilateral sensory input

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Specific Phobia Criteria (5)

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  1. Fear or anxiety about specific object or situation
  2. Stimuli provokes immediate fear or anxiety
  3. Avoidance or enduring stimuli
  4. Reaction out of proportion
  5. Lasts longer than 6 months
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Categories of Specific Phobias (5)

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  1. Animal
  2. Natural environment
  3. Blood-injection-injury
  4. Situational
  5. Other
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Fear of places/situations that they might have trouble escaping or getting help

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Agoraphobia

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Best theory of phobias

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Created by classical conditioning, reinforced by operant conditioning

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Evolutionarily-selected rapid conditioning

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Prepared classical conditioning

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Treatments for phobias

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  • Behavioral therapy using exposure and desensitization

- Applied tension technique for blood-injection-injury phobias to avoid fainting

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Social Anxiety Disorder Criteria (4)

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  1. Fear or anxiety about social situations where exposure to scrutiny is possible
  2. Fear of showing anxiety symptoms
  3. Avoidance symptoms
  4. Lasts longer than 6 months
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Treatments for Social Anxiety Disorder

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-CBT exposure therapy

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Panic Disorder Criteria (2)

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  1. Recurrent unexpected panic attacks

2. Maladaptive behavior for at least 1 month after attack

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Brain area associated with panic disorder

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Locus ceruleus (of the brain stem)

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The unfounded belief that bodily symptoms have harmful consequences

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Anxiety Sensitivity

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A heightened awareness of bodily cues

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Interoceptive Awareness

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The process of interpreting bodily cues as indicators of panic attacks

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Interoceptive Conditioning

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Association of certain situations with panic symptoms leading to avoidance of the situations

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Conditioned Avoidance Response

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Treatments for Panic Disorder

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  • Biological (SSRIs, Tricyclics, Benzodiazepines)

- CBT (Panic Control Therapy)

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CBT for Panic Disorder

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  1. Teach relaxation techniques
  2. Identify catastrophic cognitions
  3. Teach application of relaxation/accurate interpretations
  4. Systematic sensitization
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GAD Criteria (3)

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  1. Anxiety and worry occurring most days for 6 months
  2. Unable to control worry
  3. Physical symptoms from anxiety
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Theory of GAD

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-Elevated experience of negative emotions and fear associated from those emotions

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Treatments for GAD

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  • CBT

- Biological (SSRIs, Tricyclics, Benzodiazepines)

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Separation Anxiety Disorder Criteria (2)

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  1. Excessive fear or anxiety concerning separation from an attached individual
  2. Lasts more than 4 weeks in children and more than 6 months in adults
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Common trait in Separation Anxiety Disorder

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Behavioral inhibition (retreat from novel situations)

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Treatments for Separation Anxiety Disorder

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  • CBT

- Biological (SSRIs, Benzodiazepines)

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OCD Criteria (2)

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  1. Presence of obsessions, compulsions, or both

2. Symptoms are time-consuming (1 hr/day) or distressing

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People feel they must engage in compulsions to…

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…reduce anxiety

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Special type of compulsion to keep possessions

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Hair-pulling disorder

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Trichotillomania

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State of alarm in response to vague sense of future threat

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Body Dismorphic Disorder

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Preoccupation with imagined or exaggerated defect in appearance

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Facts that make sense in light of a person’s nature

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Egosyntonic

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Facts that don’t make sense in light of a person’s nature

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Egodystonic

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Prevalence of anxiety disorders

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(1 year) 20%-30% (lifetime)

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Brain area related to OCD

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Basal ganglia

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Treatments for OCD (2)

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  1. Biological (SSRIs, Deep Brain Stimulation)

2. Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)

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ERP

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  • Develop hierarchy of stressful events (SUDS 1-100 scale)
  • Prolonged exposure to stimuli
  • Block rituals
  • Correct cognitions

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