Obsessive-Compulsive And Related Disorders

Question 1

Among the person’s suffering from anxiety and related disorders, a client who needs hospitalization is likely to have _.

Answer 1

Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Question 2

OCD is the devastating culmination of what disorders?

Answer 2

Anxiety disorders

Question 3

Intrusive and mostly nonsensical thoughts, images or urges that the individual tries to resist or eliminate.

Answer 3

Obsessions

Question 4

Thoughts or actions used to suppress the obsessions and provide relief.

Answer 4

Compulsions

Question 5

What are the types of obsessions and compulsions?

Answer 5

Symmetry
Forbidden thoughts or actions
Cleaning and contamination
Hoarding

Question 6

It is common for these disorders to co-occur in patients with OCD or in their families.

Answer 6

Tic Disorders and Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Question 7

Involuntary movements (sudden jerking of limbs)

Answer 7

Tic Disorder

Question 8

Its center is a preoccupation with some imagined defect in appearance by someone who actually looks normal.

Answer 8

Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Question 9

Body Dysmorphic Disorder has been referred to as _.

Answer 9

Imagined ugliness

Question 10

BDD used to be considered as what kind of disorder?

Answer 10

Somatoform disorder

Question 11

BDD and _ have the same age of onset (early adolescence through 20s) and run the same course (Lifelong w/o treatment)

Answer 11

OCD

Question 12

What are some checking or compensating rituals that are common in people with BDD in attempts to alleviate their concerns?

Answer 12

Excessive grooming and skin picking
Fixated on mirrors
Avoid mirrors to an almost phobic extent

Question 13

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.

Answer 13

Ideas of reference

Question 14

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.

Answer 14

Dysmorphobia (fear of ugliness)

Question 15

A somewhat higher proportion of individuals with BDD are interested in _ compared to individuals without BDD.

Answer 15

Art & design

Question 16

Men with BDD tend to focus on _, _, _ and tend to have _ severe BDD.

Answer 16

Body builds, genitals and thinning hair
More severe

Question 17

Women with BDD, tend to focus more on varied _ and are more likely to have an _ disorder.

Answer 17

Body areas
Eating Disorder

Question 18

What are the peak ages of BDD?

Answer 18

16-17

Question 19

Drugs that have the strongest effect in OCD.

Answer 19

Clomipramine (Anafril)
Fluvoxamine (Luvox)

Question 20

What are the treatments for Body Dysmorphic Disorder?

Answer 20

Drugs that block the reuptake of serotonin
Exposure and response prevention (Cognitive behavioral therapy)

Question 21

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.

Answer 21

Hoarding Disorder

Question 22

People with hoarding disorder begin acquiring things during their _ years and often experience great pleasure.

Answer 22

Teenage

Question 23

The average age when these people come for treatment is approximately _, after many years of hoarding.

Answer 23

50

Question 24

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.

Answer 24

Animal hoarders

Question 25

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.

Answer 25

Trichotillomania (Hair-Pulling Disorder)

Question 26

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.

Answer 26

Excoriation (Skin picking disorder)

Question 27

Excoriation is largely what-gender disorder?

Answer 27

Female

Question 28

What are the psychological treatments for Trichotillomania and Excoriation?

Answer 28

Habit-reversal training
Drug Treatments (mostly serotonin-specific reuptake inhibitors)