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Question 1

GAD diagnostic criteria

Answer 1

high anxiety and excessive worry for > 6 months

Question 2

Symptoms of GAD

Answer 2

restlessness, gatigue, insomnia, irritability

Question 3

what percent of GAD patients have another axis I diagnosis

Answer 3

90%

Question 4

Lifetime prevalence of GAD

Answer 4

6%

Question 5

Exercise has anxiety reducing propertys!!

Answer 5

True exercise is medicine

Question 6

SSRI for GAD

Answer 6

30% reduction of symptoms

Question 7

Benzo treatment for GAD

Answer 7

30-50% reduction

Question 8

Mindfulness meditation

Answer 8

Focusing attention on 1 thing, promising 75% response

Question 9

etiology

Answer 9

orgin

Question 10

PTSD last?

Answer 10

last geater than a month

Question 11

PTSD re-experiencing

Answer 11

flashbacks, nightmares, intrusive memories, outside of thier control, intense vivid memory,

Question 12

PTSD avoidanc/numbing

Answer 12

amnesia, emotional numbness, avoidance, dissociation

Question 13

PTSD hyperarousal (SNS)

Answer 13

startle response, vigilance, insomnia, angry outburst

Question 14

Traums DSM

Answer 14

the person experienced, witnessd or was confronted with an event or events that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury or a threat to the physical integrity of self of others the persons response involved intense fear, hleplessness or horror

Question 15

2/3 of populations will experience an event that DSM would classify as a ? event

Answer 15

tramatic

Question 16

lifetime prevalence of PTSD

Answer 16

7%

Question 17

immediately post trauma

Answer 17

over 90% experience PTSD symptos

Question 18

only 10% will develop full blown PTSD after

Answer 18

immediately post trauma

Question 19

depersonalization and derealations

Answer 19

panic attack

Question 20

Yerkes Doison

Answer 20

if your level of arousal is low you cant do someting good, but if you have too much arousal you will not perform well.

Question 21

In PTSD they still have flashbacks

Answer 21

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Question 22

a rookie mistake in therapy PTSD

Answer 22

the therapist says tell me everything and the patient does it and its overwhelming

Question 23

What happens following severe trauma is the person gets so good at aviodance that the person uses it all the time

Answer 23

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Question 24

predictors of PTSD

Answer 24

genetic vulnerability (explains about 30% of variance in some studies
newurological vulnerability
lack of social support
percieved severity of trauma
use of physical violence in trauma
axis I co-morbidity

Question 25

experience changes the brain

Answer 25

in childhood when we are traumatized our brain in permantly more likely to have flight or flight.

Question 26

adverse childhood experiences study

Answer 26

PTSD: ppl as adults that had experienced tramatic events were more likely to experience every illness