EXAM Flashcards
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obsession and compulsions
obsessions: intrusive thoughts that provoke distress or anxiety
compulsions: repetitive behaviours/mental acts to reduce anxiety/supress obsession. types: rituals (repetitive actions like checking, hand washing, reassurance seeking), neutralizations (brief actions to “undo” obsessive thought like thinking about being healthy, adding “not” to obsession)
OCD dsm criteria
A. presence of obsessions and/or compulsions
B. OC take 1+ hour per day or DnD
C, D. no better explantions
insight in OCD
can be added as a specifier (good/fair/poor)
good: knowing the compulsions are absurd but can’t stop
fair: knows it absurd but helps them feel sure
poor: feels like they truly did something wrong they cant remember, closer to psychosis, may not know the OC are connected
OCD brain
PFC dysfunction may lead to being overly focused on irrelevant details, problems with organizing relevant info, poor self-monitoring (forming concrete memory of doing something - made worse by repetition aka harder to remember if you did something if you keep checking), inability to change behaviour
Connected to serotonin
repeated checking leads to…
lowered memory confidence, increased doubt, more checking
OCT CBT Etiology
Catastrophic misinterpretations of harmless random thoughts leading to an attempt to suppress the thoughts (compulsions), validating the danger of the thoughts, thus making them worse
The loop is the disorder not the thoughts
Maintained by compulsions and the negative reinforcement of compulsions (they reduce anxiety so ill keep doing them)
OCD loop
trigger, intrusive thought, faulty appraisal (assigns scary meaning to thought and assumes responsibility to stopping it), anxiety, compulsion, relief, repeat
BDD dsm5
A. preoccupation with one or more “flaws” in appearance that appear slight to others
B. repetitive behaviours in response to appearance (mirror checking, reassurance seeking, comparing appearance)
C. DnD
D. Trait is not body weight
Specifier: muscle dysmorphia
Hoarding disorder DSM5
A. persistent difficulty parting with possessions regardless of value
B. Difficulty is bc they feel they need to save them and it is distressing to throw them out
C. accumulation of things in ACTIVE living areas that compromise intended use, if its cleared its by someone else
D. DnD
E,F. No better explanation
Subtype: animal hoarding
Hoarding risk factors
middle age, OCD, experienced major loss, poverty, indecisiveness, avoidance, difficulty planning and organizing, distractibility
OCD/BDD first line treatment
Exposure and response prevention and SSRIs are first-line.
Exposure causes anxiety by purposefully triggering obsessive thoughts, response prevention is not engaging w/a ritual (“surf the wave” of anxiety and watch as the wave lessens over time). Over time, extinguishes neg. reinforcement and reduces anxiety associated with the obsession (not necessarily the frequency of thoughts). Use the SUDS and exposure hierarchy.
Mindfulness approaches can be helpful for relapse prevention
hoarding treatments
CBT with motivational interviewing is first line (explore ambivalence to change and try to find reasons to want to change)
CBT explores dysfunctional beliefs about discarding stuff (usefulness, wasting, sentimental attachment, the need to remember). Use questions to evaluate the accuracy of these beliefs and offer alt options
Practice letting go of stuff, starting easy and increasing in difficulty up to sentimental items (exposure therapy basically, tolerate neg emotions and challenge beliefs)
CBT for OCD
challenge faulty appraisals (ignore content on obsessions) via thought records (what is a more realistic assessment of the situation)
Explores false sense of responsibility
via responsibility pie (lots of things could be the cause of something other than you)
Examine likelihoods of risk via continuum (holding baby without washing hands is not 0% danger but its much better than leaving the baby alone in a room)
BDD CBT
challenge body image equals real physical appearance
evaluate distorted thoughts about body and imagined consequences
Exposure therapy things therapists should do
Do exposure with them
ask intermittently their level of anxiety 1-10 (SUDs tracking)
point out the wave going up and down
dont try to relieve anxiety, point out the germs.
afterwards, make them feel proud and show them that the compulsion is not the only thing that can relieve anxiety - robs obsession of power and gives it to pt
Can do compulsion after but make sure anxiety came down already bc of time not compulsion.
SUDS
subjective units of distress scale
exposure for pedo/serial killer OCD
change baby, babysit kids, journal describing pedophila, reading pedo artiles
sign a contract with the devil “pls satan make me a killer”
PTSD DSM5
A. Occurs after trauma (actual or threatened death/injury/integrity of self to yourself or others, includes learning about/watching trauma done to someone else and repeated exposure that is word related)*
*unexpected
B. 1+ experiencing symptom
C. 1+ persistent avoidance symptom
D. 2+ cognitive/mood symptoms
E. 2+ hypervigiliance symptoms
F. ONE MONTH
G. DnD
F. not medication or other disorder
PTSD risk factors
women more likely to develop PTSD (more often related to rape, neglect, abuse while men are more often related to injury, natural disaster, combat)
Pre event: Low SES, low education, low IQ, previous psych history, childhood adversity
Post event: severity, lack of social support, additional stressors after event
Interpersonal trauma more likely to provoke PTSD
PTSD brain
smaller hippocampus
dysregulated endocrine system (HPA axis, cortisol)
PTSD reexperiencing symptoms
intrusive thoughts/memories
dreams
dissociative reaction (flashbacks)
intense distress when reminded
intense physiological reaction when reminded
PTSD avoidance symptoms
avoiding memories, thought, feelings associated with event
avoid external reminders of the event
PTSD cog and mood symptoms (7)
anhedonia/emotional numbing
negative beliefs/expectations about the world/oneself
persistent, distorted thoughts of blame
detachment/estrangment from others
inability to feel positive emotions
persistent negative emotional state (fear, anger, guilt)
inability to remember what happened
PTSD hypervigilance symptoms (6)
reckless/self-destructive behaviour
irritability/outbursts of anger
hypervigilance
exaggerated startle
problems with concentration
sleep problems