Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Obssessions

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Compulsions

Question 3

What are the 4 major types of obsessions?

Answer 3

Symmetry, forbidden thoughts or actions that may be aggressive, sexual, or religious, cleaning/contamination, and hoarding

Question 4

T or F: Compulsions are always related to the obsessions of an individual.

Answer 4

F, they may be related or not. What matters is that these compulsions provide relief to the individual

Question 5

When clients with OCD equate thoughts with the specific actions or activity represented by the thoughts (e.g. thinking of abortion is the moral equivalent of having an abortion). What is this?

Answer 5

Thought-action fusion

Question 6

From a psychological viewpoint, how can OCD develop?

Answer 6

The battle between id impulses and ego defenses

Question 7

T or F: Generalized biological vulnerability and specific psychological vulnerability must be present for OCD to develop.

Answer 7

T

Question 8

The core feature of this disorder is a preoccupation with some imagined defects or flaws in physical appearance by someone who actually looks reasonably normal.

Answer 8

Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD)

Question 9

T or F: The appearance preoccupation in BDD involves a concern with body fat or weight.

Answer 9

F, appearance preoccupation involving concern with body fat or weight is one of the features of an eating disorder.

Question 10

From a biological perspective, damage or interruption in this type of brain part is implicated in OCD.

Answer 10

Serotonin circuit

Question 11

From a psychosocial perspective, this disorder may be closely related to severe social anxiety, especially in relation to evaluations of appearance.

Answer 11

BDD

Question 12

The three major characteristics of this disorder are the excessive acquisition of things, difficulty discarding anything, and living with excessive clutter under conditions best characterized as gross disorganization.

Answer 12

Hoarding disorder

Question 13

T or F: OCD tends to wax and wane, whereas hoarding behavior can begin early in life and get worse with each passing day.

Answer 13

T

Question 14

In hoarding disorder, accumulation and acquisition of things congest and clutter inactive living areas (e.g. unused room).

Answer 14

F, active living areas

Question 15

A disorder in which there is an urge to pull out one’s own hair from anywhere on the body, including the scalp, eyebrows, and arms. This results in noticeable hair loss, distress, and significant social impairments.

Answer 15

Trichotillomania (hair pulling) disorder

Question 16

This disorder is characterized by repetitive and compulsive picking of the skin, leading to tissue damage.

Answer 16

Excoriation (skin picking) disorder

Question 17

Females largely suffer from this disorder.

Answer 17

Excoriation disorder

Question 18

T or F: repeated reinforcement in relation to the release of tension when engaging in skin picking and hair pulling has something to do with these disorders.

Answer 18

T

Question 19

What pharmaceutical treatment is commonly used to treat excoriation and trichotillomania?

Answer 19

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) since they may be related to the imbalance of serotonin