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Exam 2 - Anxiety Disorders Flashcards

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What are anxiety disorders?

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Unrealistic, irrational fears or anxieties that cause significant distress and/or impairments

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Separation anxiety disorder

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Anxiety concerning separation from home or caregivers - when separated, fear something terrible will happen to themselves or their parents

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How early can separation anxiety disorder begin?

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13 months

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What are some of the symptoms of separation anxiety disorder?

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internal distress - nightmares, not wanting to go to school, not engaging with peers

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Treatment for Separation anxiety disorder

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  1. systematic desensitization (exposure therapy)
  2. contingency management
  3. self-management
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What is Selective mutism?

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refusing to talk in specific situations

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Where does selective mutism occur most frequently?

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in a classroom setting

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Treatment for Selective mutism

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Behavioral treatments (exposure to settings where they have to talk)

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What is a specific phobia? What are they triggered by?

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  • Strong and persistent fear recognized as excessive or unreasonable
  • triggered by a specific object or situation
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What is the cardinal characteristic of specific phobias?

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avoidance of trigger to a maladaptive point (like going up 14 flights of stairs to avoid going in an elevator)

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What are the 5 subtypes of specific phobias identified in the DSM-5?

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  1. animal
  2. natural environment
  3. blood-injection-injury
  4. situational
  5. other (choking, vomiting, space, clowns, etc.)
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Treatment for specific phobias

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  1. cognitive behavioral therapy (exposure therapy)
  2. participant modeling
  3. virtual reality components
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Social anxiety disorder

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disabling fears of one or more specific social situations (fear of exposure to scrutiny and potential negative evaluation of others)

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What are the subcategories of social anxiety disorder?

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performance (public speaking) and nonperformance

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Treatments for social anxiety disorder

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  1. cognitive behavioral therapy (identify and reanalyze negative thoughts and schemas)
  2. medications (SSRIs)
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Panic disorder

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occurrence of panic attacks that seem to come “out of the blue” - worry about additional attacks

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Agoraphobia

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fear of/avoidance of crowded places, where you think escape is unlikely, or you’ll get sick

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50-70% of people with panic disorder will experience serious ________.

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depression

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When does the first panic attack usually occur?

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following feelings of distress or highly stressful life circumstance

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What is the panic cirlce?

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  1. trigger or stimulus
  2. apprehension or worry
  3. body sensations
  4. interpretation of sensations as catastrophic
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What is the common treatment for many of the anxiety, panic, and obsession disorders?

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cognitive behavioral treatment

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Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)

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chronic or excessive worry about multiple events and activities - has to occur for at least 6 months

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Who are many of the anxiety, panic, and obsession disorders more prevalent in?

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women

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General anxiety disorder is especially comorbid with:

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other anxiety and mood disorders (PTSD, depression, etc.)

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What treatments are used for general anxiety disorder that are unlike other treatments for other disorders?
anxiolytic drugs and buspirone
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
occurrence of unwanted and intrusive obsessive or distressing images/thoughts, usually accompanied by compulsive behaviors
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What are some common obsessions seen in OCD?
1. contamination fears 2. fears of harming oneself or others 3. need for symmetry 4. sexuality 5. religion, aggression
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Treatment for OCD
1. exposure therapy (have to touch the sole of their shoes) 2. medications (SSRIs)
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What are some common compulsions seen in OCD?
1. cleaning 2. checking 3. repeating 4. ordering/arranging 5. counting
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Depression occurs in 80% of people with:
OCD
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Treatment for BDD
1. medications (SSRIs)
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Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), what can this be related to?
- Obsessed/preoccupied with perceived or imagined flaw in appearance that causes clinically significant distress or impairment - can be related to OCD
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Hoarding
acquire and fail to discard limited value possessions - this level of disorganization interferes with daily life
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Trichotillomania
urge to pull out hair from any body location - get the relief by doing so
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Excoriation
recurrent picking at one's own skin
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Reactive attachment disorder
severe disturbance in the ability to relate to others in which the individual is unresponsive to people, is apathetic, and prefers to be alone than to interact with family and friends
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Disinhibited social engagement disorder
Diagnosis given to children who engage in culturally inappropriate, overly familiar behavior with people who are relative strangers
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Prolonged grief disorder
- a prolonged maladaptive grief reaction to a death - intense yearning/learning for the deceased individual/preoccupation with thoughts or memories of the deceased individual
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Posttraumatic stress disorder (DSM classification)
trauma and stressor-related disorder
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Posttraumatic stress disorder (clinical description)
trauma memory reexperienced involuntarily, with some emotional force that lasts at least 1 month
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Treatment for PTSD
1. cognitive behavioral therapy (exposure therapy) 2. social support 3. medication (SSRIs)
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Not everyone exposed to a trauma will develop PTSD. True or False?
True
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Can psychological trauma play a role in our physical wellbeing?
yes, can cause CV events
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Treatments for panic disorder
1. medications 2. cognitive behavioral therapy
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Symptoms of GAD
restlessness, trouble concentrating, fatigue, irritability, muscle tension, etc.
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Treatments for GAD
1. cognitive behavioral therapy 2. medication
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What are the psychological causal factors of specific phobias?
1. Psychoanalytical viewpoint (id has repressed and impulse and has displaced it onto something else) 2. Learned behavior (conditioning)
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What are the psychological causal factors of social anxiety disorder?
1. Learned behavior 2. Evolutionary factors 3. Perceptions of uncontrollability and unpredictability 4. Cognitive biases toward “danger schemas” (automatically think something bad is going to happen)
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What are the biological causal factors of specific phobias and social anxiety disorder?
1. Temperament 2. Genetics
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What are the biological causal factors of panic disorder?
1. Genetics 2. Over-active amygdala, hippocampus, and higher cortical centers 3. Biochemical abnormalities 3a. Higher serotonin that decreases norepinephrine 3b. Low levels of GABA
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What are the psychological causal factors of panic disorder?
1. Cognitive theory of panic (catastrophic way of thinking) 2. Comprehensive learning theory of panic disorder (panic attacks become associated with internal events) 3. Anxiety sensitivity and persistence of panic (dire interpretation of bodily functions) 4. Cognitive biases and maintenance of panic (the panic circle)
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What are the psychological causal factors of general anxiety disorder?
1. Psychoanalytical viewpoint (defense mechanisms aren’t developed) 2. Perceptions of uncontrollability and unpredictability 3. Sense of mastery 4. Negative consequences of worry 5. Cognitive biases for threatening information
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What are the biological causal factors of general anxiety disorder?
1. Genetics 2. Neurotransmitters (norepinephrine and serotonin) 3. Hyperactive CRH (cortico-releasing hormone)
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What are the psychological causal factors of OCD?
1. Mowrer’s two-process theory of avoidance learning 1a. Fear/negative association becomes associated with anxiety 1b. Anxiety is reduced by compulsions 2. Evolutionary adaptive nature 3. Attempts to suppress thoughts cause increase of thoughts
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What are the biological causal factors of OCD?
1. Genetics 2. Abnormal circuit to Basal Ganglia causes the inability to stop certain thoughts 3. Serotonin
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What are the treatments for body dysmorphic disorder (BDD)?
1. Antidepressants 2. Cognitive behavioral therapy/exposure therapy (most effective)
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What is the treatment for hoarding disorder?
1. Exposure therapy - professional organizer
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What is the treatment for both trichotillomania and excoriation?
Habit reversal treatment (taught behaviors that contradict the initial behavior, like putting hand in fist when the urge to pull hair arrives)
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What are both reactive attachment disorder and disinhibited social engagement disorder caused by?
Exposure to trauma like neglect or deprivation
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Acute stress disorder, how long do symptoms last, what can it develop into?
Diagnostic category for use when symptoms develop shortly after traumatic event and last for at least 2 days - can develop into PTSD
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What are the causal factors in PTSD ?
1. Individual risk factors 2. Biological factors (gender, serotonin transporter genes, reduced size of hippocampus) 3. Sociocultural factors

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