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Adult Psychopathology Chapter 5 Flashcards

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1
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Define anxiety.

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Mood state characterised by negative feelings, behaviours, and physiological responses due to anticipation of future danger or misfortune.

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Define fear.

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Normal, natural response to a threat.

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Define pathological fear.

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Fearful state experienced in excess of the threat/ without the threat present.

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What would be the pathological response to animal?

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Specific phobia.

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What would be the pathological response to smothering?

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Panic attack, panic disorder.

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What would be the pathological response to social rejection?

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Social anxiety.

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Define PANIC.

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Sudden overwhelming fright or terror.

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Define PANIC ATTACK.

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Abrupt experience of fear/discomfort accompanied by physical symptoms. It reaches a peak within minutes.

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Name 2 types of panic attacks.

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Expected (cued)
Unexpected (uncued)

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Name 4/ more symptoms that accompany panic attacks.

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  • palpitations
  • sweating
  • trembling
  • shortness of breath
  • feelings of choking
  • chest pain
  • nausea
  • dizzy/ lightheaded
  • chills
    etc.
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What is paraesthesias?

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Numbness or tingling sensations.

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What is the difference between derealisation and depersonalisation?

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Derealisation = detach from reality.
Depersonalisation = detach from oneself.

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True or False.
No single gene causes anxiety/panic.

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True.

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14
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What hormones can cause anxiety?

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Dopamine, adrenaline, and serotonin.

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What is the CRF system?

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Corticotropin-releasing factor.

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What does CRF do?

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Central to the expression of anxiety and depression.

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What is the HPA axis?

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Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis.

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What does the HPA axis do?

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Adjusts the hormones in response to stress; required for stress adaptation.

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Explain the process of HPA axis.

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Stress results in hypothalamus stimulating pituitary gland to release hormones that further cause the adrenal glands to release cortisol.

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What is the area of the brain most associated with anxiety?

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The limbic system.

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What brain circuit causes anxiety?

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Behavioural inhibition system (BIS).

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Name and explain 2 psychological contributions to anxiety.

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Generalized psychological vulnerability - a general sense of uncontrollability and unpredictability.

Specific Psychological vulnerability - believe specific things are dangerous.

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Name 2 social contributions to anxiety.

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Social & interpersonal stressors.

Socio-economic stress.

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3 vulnerabilities that contribute to the development of anxiety disorders (TRIPLE VULNERABILITY MODEL).

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  1. Biological vulnerability
  2. Specific psychological vulnerability
  3. Generalized psychological vulnerability
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What other psychological disorders are anxiety often comorbid with?

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  • Depression
  • Alcohol/substance abuse
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Define Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD).

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an Anxiety disorder characterised by uncontrollable, intense, chronic, and continuous worry that is distressing and unproductive, accompanied by physical symptoms of tenseness, irritability, and restlessness.

27
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What are the diagnostic criteria for Generalised Anxiety Disorder?

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in notes

28
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What causes GAD?

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Generalized biological vulnerability - inherit tenseness.

Generalized psychological vulnerability - anxiety sensitive.

Overactive frontal lobes in the brain.

29
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How to treat/manage GAD?

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Medication
Benzodiazepines or Beta-antagonists

Psychological
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
Acceptance and Commitment therapy (ACT)
Meditation

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Define PANIC DISORDER.

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Recurrent, unexpected panic attacks accompanied by concern for future attacks.

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Define AGORAPHOBIA.

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Anxiety disorder characterised by anxiety about being in certain places or situations from which you cannot escape when you start to feel panic symptoms.

32
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What are the diagnostic criteria for Panic Disorder?

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in notes

33
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What are the diagnostic criteria for Agoraphobia?

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in notes

34
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Panic attacks between 1:30 - 3:30.

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Nocturnal panic.

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An overemphasis of academic achievement.

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Brain fag syndrome.

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What causes panic disorder and agoraphobia?

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The triple vulnerability model.

37
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What is the preferred medication of panic disorders?

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Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibiters (SSRI’s)

38
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What psychological treatment helps with panic disorder and what does it do?

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Panic Control Treatment (PCT) - exposes the patient to physiological sensations that remind them of their panic attacks.

39
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What is the best treatment for Panic disorder?

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Combined psychological and pharmacological treatment.

40
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Define specific phobia.

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Unreasonable fear of a specific thing that interferes with daily life functioning.

41
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What are some causes of specific phobia?

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  1. Directly experiencing danger
  2. Experiencing false alarm
  3. Learned fear
  4. Being told about danger
42
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What are the subtypes/ specifiers of specific phobia?

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  • Blood injection injury
  • Animal
  • Situational
  • Natural environment
  • Other phobias
43
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What is the diagnostic criteria for specific phobia?

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in notes

44
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How to treat specific phobia?

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By using exposure based therapy like Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).

Antituberculosis agent d-cycloserine in conjunction with exposure therapy.

45
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Define social anxiety disorder (SAD).

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Extreme, enduring, irrational fear and avoidance of social or performance situations.

46
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What is the specifier/subtype for Social Anxiety Disorder?

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Performance only: anxiety only in performance situations e.g. public speaking.

47
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Define trauma and stressor related disorders.

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Emotional disorders that may occur after exposure to a variety of traumatic events or stressors.

48
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What are the diagnostic criteria for PTSD ?

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in notes

49
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What are the specifiers for PTSD ?

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With dissociative symptoms - depersonalisation and derealisation.

With delayed onset - at least 6 months.

50
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What is Acute Stress Disorder?

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Experience same symptoms as PTSD except symptoms don’t persist past 1 month. if they do victims are diagnosed with PTSD.

51
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Define prolonged grief disorder.

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Disorder where a person experiences intense longing for the deceased and a range of other symptoms that makes it difficult to move on with life even after 1 year or more has passed.

52
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Reactive Attachment Disorder

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Attachment disorder in which a disturbed child neither seeks out or respond to caregivers.

53
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Define obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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Disorder involving unwanted, intrusive thoughts and impulses, as well as repetitive actions intended to suppress them.

54
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What is an obsession?

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Persistent and recurrent thoughts.

55
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What is compulsion?

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Repetitive actions.

56
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4 types of obsessive-compulsions.

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  1. Symmetry
  2. Forbidden thoughts or actions
  3. Cleaning/contaminate
  4. Hoarding
57
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What are the obsessive compulsive specifiers?

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  • With good/fair insight
  • With poor insight
  • Delusional beliefs
  • Tic-related
58
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Psychological treatment of OCD.

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Exposure and ritual Prevention (ERP).

59
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What are the diagnostic criteria for OCD?

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in notes

60
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Body dysmorphic disorder.

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“Imagined ugliness”

61
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Specifiers of body dysmorphic disorder.

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  • With muscle dysmorphia
  • With good/ fair insight
  • With poor insight
  • Delusional beliefs
62
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Diagnostic criteria of Body Dysmorphic Disorder.

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in notes

63
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Name 3 less popular OCD related disorders.

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  1. Hoarding disorder
  2. Hair pulling disorder
  3. Skin picking disorder

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