Lecture 2

Question 1

Psychiatric disorders that share features of excessive fear and anxiety and related behavioral disturbances.

Answer 1

Anxiety Disorder

Question 2

the emotional response to real or perceived imminent threat

Answer 2

Fear

Question 3

anticipation of future threat

Answer 3

Anxiety

Question 4

An anxiety disorder characterized by excessive fear or anxiety concerning separation from home or
attachment figures that exceeds what may be expected given the person’s developmental level ,
lasting at least 4 weeks in children and adolescents and typically 6 months or more in adults.
 Must meet at least 3 of the persistent fear, anxiety, or avoidance DSM V criteria

Answer 4

Separation Anxiety Disorder

Question 5

An anxiety disorder characterized by consistent failure to speak in specific social situations in
which there is an expectation for speaking despite speaking in other situations for at least 1 month
that also interferes with educational or occupational achievement or with social communication.

Answer 5

Selective Mutism

Question 6

An anxiety disorder characterized by marked/out of proportionate and persistent fear, anxiety, or
avoidance about a specific object or situation, typically lasting for 6 months or more.

Answer 6

Specific Phobia (s)

Question 7

An anxiety disorder characterized by a marked/out of proportionate/intense fear or
anxiety of social situations in which the individual may be scrutinized by others,
typically lasting for 6 months or more.

Answer 7

Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia)

Question 8

An anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent unexpected panic attacks

Answer 8

Panic Disorder

Question 9

A panic attack is not classified as a psychiatric disorder, but refers to an
abrupt surge of intense fear or intense discomfort that reaches a peak within minutes, and
during which time 4 or more of a 13 physical and cognitive symptoms of panic occur

Answer 9

Panic Attack Specifier

Question 10

An anxiety disorder characterized by marked/out of proportion/intense fear or anxiety triggered by
the real or anticipated exposure to a wide range of situations, typically lasting for 6 months or
more

The diagnosis requires endorsement of symptoms occurring in at least two of the following five
situations: 1) using public transportation , such as automobiles, buses, trains, ships, or planes; 2)
being in open spaces, such as parking lots, marketplaces, or bridges; 3) being in enclosed spaces,
such as shops, theaters, or cinemas; 4) standing in line or being in a crowd; or 5) being outside of
the home alone.

Answer 10

Agoraphobia

Question 11

An anxiety disorder characterized by excessive anxiety and worry, occurring more days than not for
at least 6 months, about a number of events or activities, which causes 1 or more of the following
symptoms in children and 5 or more of the following symptoms in adults: restlessness, fatigue,
difficulty concentrating, irritability, muscle tension, or sleep disturbance

Answer 11

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Question 12

An obsessive compulsive or related disorder characterized by the presence of
obsessions, compulsions, or both, that are time-consuming (taking more than 1 hour
per day) or cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or
other important areas of functioning

Answer 12

OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER

Question 13

recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, or images that are

experienced as intrusive and unwanted.

Answer 13

obsessions

Question 14

repetitive behaviors or mental acts that an individual feels
driven to perform in response to an obsession or according to rules that must
be applied rigidly.

Answer 14

compulsions

Question 15

An obsessive compulsive or related disorder characterized by the preoccupation with
one or more perceived defects or flaws in physical appearance that are not observable
or appear slight to others, that at some point during the course of the disorder, the
individual has performed repetitive behaviors or mental acts in response to the
appearance concerns

Answer 15

Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Question 16

An obsessive compulsive or related disorder characterized by persistent difficulty discarding
or parting with possessions, regardless of their actual value due to a perceived need to save
the items and to distress associated with discarding them, resulting in the accumulation of
possessions that congest and clutter active living areas and substantially compromises their
intended use

Answer 16

Hoarding Disorder

Question 17

An obsessive compulsive or related disorder characterized by recurrent pulling out of one’s
hair that results in hair loss, with repeated attempts to decrease or stop hair pulling

Answer 17

Trichotillomania (Hair-Pulling Disorder)

Question 18

An obsessive compulsive or related disorder characterized by recurrent skin picking resulting
in skin lesions, with repeated attempts to decrease or stop skin picking

Answer 18

Excoriation (Skin-Picking) Disorder

Question 19

A group of psychiatric disorders that are caused by exposure to a
stressful or traumatic event.

Common characteristics of these disorders are the absence or ability to experience pleasure, an emotional state of anxiety, depression, or unease, outbursts of anger or aggression, or removal from association in relation to and following exposure to a stressful or
traumatic event.

Answer 19

TRAUMA AND STRESSOR RELATED DISORDERS

Question 20

A trauma and stressor related disorder in children before 5 years of age that is characterized by a pattern of markedly disturbed and developmentally
inappropriate attachment behaviors, in which a child rarely or minimally turns preferentially to an attachment figure for comfort, support, protection, and
nurturance.

The essential feature is absent or grossly underdeveloped attachment between
the child and presumed caregivers.

Answer 20

Reactive Attachment Disorder

Question 21

A trauma and stressor related disorder in patients over the age of 9 that is characterized by a pattern of behavior that involves culturally inappropriate,
overly familiar behavior with relative strangers in at least 2 distinctive manners

The patient must have also experienced a pattern of extremely
insufficient/inappropriate care or neglect

Answer 21

Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder

Question 22

A trauma and stressor related disorder characterized the development of one (or more) intrusion
symptoms associated with the traumatic event(s), beginning after the traumatic event(s) occurred for
more than 1 month

Marked alterations in arousal and reactivity associated with the traumatic event(s) must be evident in two
(or more) of the following: irritable behavior/angry outbursts, reckless/self-destructive behavior,
hypervigilance, exaggerated startle response, problems with concentration, sleep disturbance

Answer 22

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Question 23

A trauma and stressor related disorder characterized by the development of 9 or more distinctive
symptoms (which include negative mood, intrusion symptoms, dissociative symptoms, avoidance
symptoms, or arousal symptoms), lasting from 3 days to 1 month following exposure to one or more
traumatic events

Answer 23

Acute Stress Disorder

Question 24

A trauma and stressor related disorder characterized by the development of emotional or behavioral
symptoms in response to an identifiable stressor(s) occurring within 3 months of the onset of the stressor(s)

Answer 24

Adjustment Disorders

Question 25

A group of psychiatric disorder that are characterized by a disruption of and/or discontinuity in the normal integration of consciousness, memory, identity, emotion, perception, body representation, motor control, and behavior.

Answer 25

DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS

Question 26

A dissociative disorder characterized by the presence of two or more distinct personality states
or an experience of possession, in which the disruption in identity involves marked discontinuity in
sense of self and sense of agency, accompanied by related alterations in affect, behavior,
consciousness, memory, perception, cognition, and/or sensory-motor functioning.

Recurrent gaps in the recall of everyday events, important personal information, and/or
traumatic events that are inconsistent with ordinary forgetting are present

Answer 26

Dissociative Identity Disorder

Question 27

A dissociative disorder characterized by the presence of persistent or recurrent experiences of
depersonalization, derealization, or both, during which reality remains intact.

Answer 27

Depersonalization / Derealization Disorder

Question 28

experiences of unreality, detachment, or being an outside observer with respect
to one’s thoughts, feelings, sensations, body, or actions

Answer 28

Depersonalization

Question 29

experiences of unreality or detachment with respect to surroundings

Answer 29

Derealization

Question 30

A dissociative disorder characterized by an inability to recall important
autobiographical information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature,
that is inconsistent with ordinary forgetting.

Answer 30

Dissociative Amnesia

Question 31

Apparently purposeful travel or bewildered
wandering that is associated with amnesia for identity or for other important
autobiographical information.

Answer 31

Dissociative Fugue Specifier: