Obsessive-Compulsive And Related Disorders Flashcards
Among the person’s suffering from anxiety and related disorders, a client who needs hospitalization is likely to have _.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
OCD is the devastating culmination of what disorders?
Anxiety disorders
Intrusive and mostly nonsensical thoughts, images or urges that the individual tries to resist or eliminate.
Obsessions
Thoughts or actions used to suppress the obsessions and provide relief.
Compulsions
What are the types of obsessions and compulsions?
Symmetry
Forbidden thoughts or actions
Cleaning and contamination
Hoarding
It is common for these disorders to co-occur in patients with OCD or in their families.
Tic Disorders and Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Involuntary movements (sudden jerking of limbs)
Tic Disorder
Its center is a preoccupation with some imagined defect in appearance by someone who actually looks normal.
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Body Dysmorphic Disorder has been referred to as _.
Imagined ugliness
BDD used to be considered as what kind of disorder?
Somatoform disorder
BDD and _ have the same age of onset (early adolescence through 20s) and run the same course (Lifelong w/o treatment)
OCD
What are some checking or compensating rituals that are common in people with BDD in attempts to alleviate their concerns?
Excessive grooming and skin picking
Fixated on mirrors
Avoid mirrors to an almost phobic extent
People with BDD have _, which means they think everything that goes in their world is somehow related to their imagined defect. Suicidal ideation, attempts and suicide itself are typical consequences of this disorder.
Ideas of reference
BDD, previously known as _, was thought to represent a psychotic delusional state because the affected individuals were unable to realize that their ideas were irrational.
Dysmorphobia (fear of ugliness)
A somewhat higher proportion of individuals with BDD are interested in _ compared to individuals without BDD.
Art & design
Men with BDD tend to focus on _, _, _ and tend to have _ severe BDD.
Body builds, genitals and thinning hair
More severe
Women with BDD, tend to focus more on varied _ and are more likely to have an _ disorder.
Body areas
Eating Disorder
What are the peak ages of BDD?
16-17
Drugs that have the strongest effect in OCD.
Clomipramine (Anafril)
Fluvoxamine (Luvox)
What are the treatments for Body Dysmorphic Disorder?
Drugs that block the reuptake of serotonin
Exposure and response prevention (Cognitive behavioral therapy)
The 3 major characteristics of this problem are excessive acquisition of things, difficulty discarding anything and living with excessive clutter under conditions best characterized as gross disorganization.
Hoarding Disorder
People with hoarding disorder begin acquiring things during their _ years and often experience great pleasure.
Teenage
The average age when these people come for treatment is approximately _, after many years of hoarding.
50
They are characterized by the failure of inability to care for the animals or provide suitable living quarters which results in threats to health and safety due to unsanitary conditions associated with accumulated animal waste.
Animal hoarders
The urge to pull one’s own hair from anywhere on the body including the scalp, eyebrows and arms. This behavior results in noticeable hair loss, distress and significant social impairments. There may be some genetic influences on this disorder.
Trichotillomania (Hair-Pulling Disorder)
The repetitive and compulsive picking of the skin leading to tissue damage. There can be significant embarrassment, distress and impairment in terms of social and work functioning.
Excoriation (Skin picking disorder)
Excoriation is largely what-gender disorder?
Female
What are the psychological treatments for Trichotillomania and Excoriation?
Habit-reversal training
Drug Treatments (mostly serotonin-specific reuptake inhibitors)
