Anxiety Disorders

Question 1

A negative mood state characterized by bodily symptoms of physical tension and by apprehension about the future.

Answer 1

Anxiety

Question 2

When is anxiety good for us? Psychologists have known for over a century that we perform better when we have this kind of anxiety.

Answer 2

Moderate amount/little

Question 3

He called anxiety as the “shadow of intelligence”. He thought the human ability to plan some detail for the future was connected to that gnawing feeling that things could go wrong and we had better be prepared for them.

Answer 3

Howard Liddell

Question 4

It is an immediate alarm reaction to danger.

Answer 4

Fear

Question 5

The emergency reaction is often called the __.

Answer 5

flight or fight response

Question 6

An abrupt experience of intense fear or acute discomfort, accompanied by physical symptoms that usually include heart palpitations, chest pain, shortness of breath and possibly, dizziness.

Answer 6

Panic

Question 7

What are the 2 types of panic attacks?

Answer 7

Expected (cued) panic attack
Unexpected (uncued) panic attack

Question 8

More common type of panic attacks in specific phobias or social phobias.

Answer 8

Expected (cued) panic attacks

Question 9

If the person does not have a clue when or where the next attack will occur. This type of panic attack is important in panic disorder.

Answer 9

Unexpected (uncued) panic attack

Question 10

The DSM-5 criteria specify that atleast how long of excessive anxiety and worry must be ongoing more days than not to be diagnosed as Generalized Anxiety Disorder?

Answer 10

6 months

Question 11

What are some physical characteristics of GAD?

Answer 11

Muscle tension, mental agitation, and susceptibility to fatigue, some irritability, difficulty sleeping.

Question 12

What do people with GAD mostly worry about?

Answer 12

Minor, everyday life events.

Question 13

How many physical symptoms are required for a diagnosis of GAD in children?

Answer 13

1

Question 14

Older adults with GAD tend to focus on worrying about what?

Answer 14

Health

Question 15

Individuals experience severe, unexpected panic attacks. They may think that they are dying or otherwise losing control.

Answer 15

Panic Disorder

Question 16

In many cases, what closely related disorder accompanies panic disorder?

Answer 16

Agoraphobia

Question 17

Fear and avoidance of situations in which a person feels unsafe or unable to escape to get home or to a hospital in the event of developing panic symptoms or other physical symptoms.

Answer 17

Agoraphobia

Question 18

The term agoraphobia was coined in 1871 by a German physician whose name is?

Answer 18

Karl Westphal

Question 19

It is a Greek word which means market place, or a busy bustling area.

Answer 19

Agora

Question 20

Panic disorder and agoraphobia were integrated into one disorder, called what?

Answer 20

Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia

Question 21

How can anxiety be diminished for individuals with agoraphobia?

Answer 21

If they think a location or a person is safe.

Question 22

What are some ways to cope with unexpected panic attacks for individuals with panic disorder and agoraphobia?

Answer 22

Agoraphobic avoidance
Using drugs or alcohol
Endure with intense dread

Question 23

Avoidance of internal physical sensations that most patients with agoraphobic avoidance and panic disorder display. These behaviors involve removing oneself from situations or activities that might produce physiological arousal that somehow resembles the beginning of a panic attack.

Answer 23

Interoceptive avoidance

Question 24

Irrational fear of a specific subject or situation that markedly interferes with an individual’s ability to function.

Answer 24

Specific Phobia

Question 25

What was the former name of Specific Phobia in the earlier versions of the DSM?

Answer 25

Simple Phobia

Question 26

Those with blood-injection-injury phobia almost always differ in _ from other people with other types of phobia.

Answer 26

Physiological reaction

Question 27

The specific phobia that runs in families more strongly than any phobic disorder.

Answer 27

Blood-Injection-Injury Phobia

Question 28

People with this phobia inherit a strong vasovagal response which causes a drop in blood pressure and a tendency to faint.

Answer 28

Blood-injection-Injury Phobia

Question 29

What is the average onset of blood-injection-injury phobia?

Answer 29

9 years

Question 30

Phobia characterized by fear of public transportation or enclosed places.

Answer 30

Situational Phobia

Question 31

When do Situational Phobia, panic disorder and agoraphobia tend to emerge?

Answer 31

Mid teens to mid-20s

Question 32

The extent to which panic disorder, agoraphobia and situational phobias run in families is similar with approximately _ (percentage) of first-degree relations having the same or similar phobia.

Answer 32

30%

Question 33

What is the main difference between situational phobia and panic disorder?

Answer 33

Situational Phobia never experiences panic attacks outside the context of their phobic object or situation. Panic disorder might experience unexpected, uncued panic attacks at any time.

Question 34

These fears seem to cluster together. If you fear one situation or event, you are likely to fear another. Many of these situations have some danger associated with them and mild to moderate fear can be adaptive.

Answer 34

Natural Environment Phobia

Question 35

Natural Environment Phobia have a peak age of onset of about _ and have to be persistent, lasting atleast _.

Answer 35

7 years 6 months

Question 36

What is the peak age of onset for animal phobias?

Answer 36

7 years

Question 37

Separation anxiety Disorder is identified more closely with _?

Answer 37

Children

Question 38

Characterized by children's unrealistic and persistent worry that something will happen to their parents or other important people in their life or that something will happen to the children themselves that will separate them from their parents.

Answer 38

Separation Anxiety Disorder

Question 39

It was discovered that separation anxiety, if untreated, can extend into _ in approximately 35% of cases.

Answer 39

Adulthood

Question 40

What activities did the researchers explore in dealing with separation anxiety disorder?

Answer 40

Real time coaching of parents Intensive 1 week program for girls aged 8-11; sleepover at the clinic on the final day of treatment.

Question 41

Fear that is closely focused on something specific to the school situation.

Answer 41

School Phobia

Question 42

An experience of marked fear or anxiety focused on one or more social or performance situations.

Answer 42

Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia)

Question 43

A subtype of social anxiety disorder, usually have no difficulty with social interaction but when they must do something specific in front of people, anxiety takes over and they focus on the possibility that they will embarrass themselves.

Answer 43

Performance anxiety

Question 44

The most common type of performance anxiety.

Answer 44

Public speaking

Question 45

Anxiety provoking physical reactions include blushing, sweating, trembling or for males, __.

Answer 45

Urinating in a public restroom

Question 46

A rare childhood disorder characterized by a lack of speech in one or more settings in which speaking is socially expected. It is driven by social anxiety and the failure to speak is not because of a lack of knowledge of speech or any physical difficulties nor it is due to another disorder.

Answer 46

Selective Mutism

Question 47

In selective mutism, the lack of speech must occur fore more than _ and cannot be limited to the first month of school.

Answer 47

1 month

Question 48

Treatment for selective mutism

Answer 48

Cognitive Behavioral principles for social anxiety, with emphasis on speech.