Anxiety Disorders Flashcards
The following diagnoses belong to which group?
- Separation Anxiety Disorder
- Selective Mutism
- Specific Phobia (e.g. flying, heights, animals,
blood)
- Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia)
- Panic Disorder
- Agoraphobia
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Anxiety Disorders
Separation Anxiety Disorder
- Excessive anxiety concerning separation
- ≥ 4 week duration
have symptoms that meet at least 3 of the 6 criteria
Separation Anxiety Disorder
The following criteria meet which diagnosis?
- Consistent failure to speak in settings where
there is an expectation for speaking (e.g. school)
despite speaking in other settings.
- at least 1 month
Selective Mutism
The following criteria meet which diagnosis?
- Marked and persistent fear of clearly discernible
objects or situations
- Exposure provokes fear or anxiety
- Avoidance or endurance with intense fear or anxiety
- Response is out of proportion
- Persistent, typically lasting 6 months or more
Specific Phobia
What are the 5 subtypes of Specific Phobia?
● Animal Type
● Natural Environment Type
● Blood-Injection-Injury Type
● Situational Type (includes test anxiety)
● Other
The following criteria meet which diagnosis?
- Marked fear or anxiety of social situations in which
the individual is exposed to possible scrutiny.
-In children, the anxiety must occur with peers
- Fear of negative evaluation: humiliation,
embarrassment or rejection.
- Exposure provokes fear or anxiety
- Avoidance or endurance with intense fear or anxiety
- Response is out of proportion
- Persistent, typically lasting 6 months or more
Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia)
What are the criteria for Panic Attack?
- Intense fear or discomfort develops rapidly,
peaks within minutes. - Includes 4 or more of:
Palpitations or increased heart rate, sweating,
trembling, shortness of breath, feeling of choking,
chest pain, nausea, dizziness, chills or heat,
numbness or tingling, derealization (including
blanking out), fear of losing control, going crazy,
or dying.
The following criteria meet which diagnosis?
- Recurrent unexpected Panic Attacks
- At least one of the attacks has been followed by
≥ 1 month of at least 1:
- Persistent concern about having additional
attacks or their consequences
- Significant maladaptive behavioral change
related to the attacks
Panic Disorder
The following criteria meet which diagnosis?
- Marked fear or anxiety about 2 or more of:
- Fear or avoidance due to thoughts that escape
might be difficult or help not available (i.e. open/closed spaces)
-Exposure provokes fear or anxiety and can only be countered w/ a companion
- Typically lasting 6 months or more
Agoraphobia
The following criteria meet which diagnosis?
- Excessive (hard to control) anxiety and worry
- ≥ 6 months (more days than not)
- Includes 3 or more of the following (1 for children)
Restlessness, Fatigue, Difficulty Concentrating or
mind going blank, Irritability, Muscle Tension, Sleep
Disturbance.
- Clinically significant distress or impairment
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Which disorder focuses on fear of social
embarrassment, humiliation or rejection?
Social Anxiety Disorder
Which disorder focuses on anxiety about ‘escape’ or
having ‘panic like symptoms’ (rather than full panic
attacks)?
Agoraphobia
Which disorder requires full panic attacks with ≥ 1 month?
Panic Disorder
What is the mnemonic for Generalized Anxiety Disorder MIS DREAD?
Muscle tension/aches
Irritability
Sleep disturbance
Diverse worries/Difficult to control *(must be present)
Restlessness
Easily fatigued
Anxiety and worry out of proportion *(must be present)
Difficulty concentrating - mind goes blank
What is the Panic Disorder mnemonic 4 STUDENTS FEAR the 3 C’s?
- S Sweating
- T Trembling
- U Unsteadiness, dizziness
- D Depersonalization, derealization
- E Excessive heart rate, palpitations
- N Nausea
- T Tingling
- S Shortness of breath
- FEAR of dying
- FEAR of losing control
- FEAR of going crazy
- C Chest pain
- C Chills
-w C Choking
