Phobic Anxiety Disorder

Question 1

What is Phobic Anxiety Disorder? (2)

Answer 1

Part of episodic anxiety umbrella (along with Panic Disorder)

Persistent irrational fear that produces anticipatory anxiety for avoidance of feared object, activity or situation

Question 2

What are three types of PAD?

Answer 2

Agoraphobia
Social phobia
Specific phobias

Question 3

What is agoraphobia?

Answer 3

Cluster of phobias including: fear of leaving home; entering shops; crowds and public places; travelling alone in trains, buses or planes

Question 4

What is social phobia?

Answer 4

Feat of being judged by others ± being embarrassed and humiliated
Low confidence, blushing, hand tremor, nausea
may progress to panic attacks

Question 5

Specific phobias:

Claustrophobia?

Answer 5

enclosed spaces

Question 6

Acrophobia?

Answer 6

heights

Question 7

Achluophobia?

Answer 7

darkness

Question 8

Brontophobia?

Answer 8

storms

Question 9

Zoophobia?

Answer 9

animals

Question 10

Hematophobia?

Answer 10

blood

Question 11

Arachnophobia?

Answer 11

spiders

Question 12

Ophidiophobia?

Answer 12

snakes

Question 13

1st line psychosocial Rx of social phobia?

Answer 13

Individual CBT

Question 14

Other psychosocial Rx of social phobia? (2)

Answer 14

CBT-based supported help

Psychodynamic psychotherapy

Question 15

1st and second line medication for social phobia?

Answer 15

SSRI e.g. escitalopram or sertraline

SNRI

Question 16

Psychosocial and biological Mx of agoraphobia is the same as which other condition?

Answer 16

GAD

Question 17

Mx of other phobias i.e. specific phobias?

Answer 17

Exposure CBT