Generalized Anxiety Disorder, PTSD, and OCD Flashcards
Paul repeats the numbers 12, 14, 15, and has anxiety about it, to reduce the anxiety he feels the need to say the numbers out loud. This behavior is an example of:
Compulsions
Exposure and ritual prevention is used to treat which of the following disorders?”
OCD
Joseph experienced reoccurring and persistent thoughts about his mother dying. In order to decrease anxiety associated with the thoughts, he counts the numbers of dangerous objects in the room. Joseph is experiencing:
OCD
Generalized anxiety disorder has a typical age of onset in:
Mid Adulthood (30)
What new disorders have been added to the Anxiety Disorder section of the DSM-5:
a) Excoriation*
b) Hoarding*
c) Substance/medication induced OCD*
_d) All of the above*_
Specifiers for OCD and related disorders are now:
c) Poor insight, good or fair insight
and “absent insight/delusional ocd beliefs”
OCD is characterized by the presence of:
a) Recurrent and persistent unwanted thoughts*
b) Repetitive behaviors or mental acts*
c) Mental preoccupations*
_d) All of the above*_
Sharon was extremely apprehensive about the meeting next week with her boss to discuss her annual performance review, even though she had been doing well well at work. She was experiencing excessive:
Worry
Which of the following is the most empirically supported treatment for GAD?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Which of the following is an empiracally supported treatment of PTSD:
Prolonged Exposure
When did the diagnosis of GAD first appear?
DSM-III
True or False: Stressful life events are likely to influence the development of GAD:
TRUE
Correctly classifying GAD may be particularly difficult due to?
a) Symptoms
b) Other disorders
c) Normal Worry
d) Medical Issues
e) One or all of the above
True or False: Genetics may influence some types of OCD more than others:
TRUE
Among the veterans serving in Vietnam War era, the liability of developing PTSD can be explained by:
a) A genetic factor common to alcohol use
