Anxiety Disorders

Question 1

What does Anxiety Disorders feature?

Answer 1

Excessive fear and anxiety and related behavioral disturbances (p. 189).

Question 2

Generalized Anxiety D/O is characterized by excessive worry regarding a specified event, situation, or image. True OR False.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Generalized Anxiety D/O involves excessive worry more days than not for at least:

• 6 months
• 1 week
• 2 years

Answer 3

6 months

Question 4

The key difference between social anxiety & agoraphobia is:

• The marked fear of social situations where scrutiny by others is possible
• The situation always or almost always provokes fear
• Fear or anxiety is out of proportion to the actual threat/situation
• Feared situations are actively avoided

Answer 4

The marked fear of social situations where scrutiny by others is possible

Question 5

What is the difference between anxiety and fear?

Answer 5

Anxiety is anticipation of threat; fear is the perception of imminent threat (p. 189).

Question 6

Which of the following diagnoses can have a specifier indicating anxiety or fear relating to situations, natural environments, blood-injection-injury, or animals?

• Specific phobia
• Hoarding D/O
• Social Anxiety
• Panic Disorder

Answer 6

Specific phobia

Question 7

Agoraphobia is NOT its own diagnosis, but rather is a condition experienced within the context of coded diagnoses.
True OR False

Answer 7

False.

Question 8

Does Specific phobia have higher rates of comorbidity?

Answer 8

Yes.

Question 9

Can a person have a diagnosis of specific phobia with panic attacks?

Answer 9

Yes.

Question 10

An abrupt surge of intense fear or discomfort in the absence of real danger that is accompanied by dizziness, fear of dying, shortness of breath, and/or heart palpitations is best described as:

• Panic Attack
• Agoraphobia
• Generalized Anxiety D/O
• Social Anxiety

Answer 10

Panic Attack

Question 11

How many symptoms of panic attacks need to be met for the diagnosis of a panic attack?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4 or more

Answer 11

4 or more

Question 12

What are the two characteristic types of panic attacks?

Answer 12

Expected panic attacks & unexpected panic attacks

Question 13

What are expected panic attacks?

Answer 13

“attacks for which there is obvious cue or trigger, such as situations in which panic attacks have typically occurred” (p. 215).

Question 14

What are unexpected panic attacks?

Answer 14

“attacks for which there is no obvious cue or trigger at the time of occurrence (e.g., when relaxing or out of sleep {nocturnal panic attack})” (p. 215).

Question 15

What is a nocturnal panic attack?

Answer 15

“waking from sleep in a state of panic” (p. 215).

Question 16

What is Generalized Anxiety D/O associated with?

Answer 16

“with somatic concerns (muscle aches, soreness, sweatiness, stomach upset), shakiness, & comorbidity with mood disorders, other anxiety disorders, & substance use.”

Question 17

Does Generalized Anxiety D/O cause clinically significant distress & impairment?

Answer 17

Yes.

Question 18

Which of the following is true about agoraphobia?

• Agoraphobia is does not evoke fear/anxiety
• Agoraphobia does evoke fear/anxiety

Answer 18

Agoraphobia does evoke fear/anxiety

Question 19

Please select the disorder that is best explained by the following: (1) 1 or more abrupt surges of intense fear or anxiety accompanied by 4 or more physiological symptoms; (2) One month of persistent worry regarding having an abrupt surge again and behavior changes because of the surge:

• Panic D/O
• Obsession-Compulsive D/O
• Panic Attack
• Agoraphobia

Answer 19

Panic D/O