Psychological Disorders

Question 1

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Answer 1

anxiety disorder
feels tense/anxious much of the time about many issues
does not experience panic attacks
symptoms: restlessness, poor concentration, muscle tension, irritability

Question 2

Specific Phobia

Answer 2

anxiety disorder
persistent, strong, and unreasonable fear of a certain object/situation

situational - flying, elevators

natural environment - water, lightning

blood-injection-injury - injections, blood, medical procedures

Animal - spiders, snakes, dogs

Question 3

Social Phobia

Answer 3

unreasonable, paralyzing fear of feeling embarrassed or humiliated while one is watched by others, even while performing routine activities

Question 4

Panic Disorder

Answer 4

anxiety disorder
debilitating anxiety and fear arise frequently and without reasonable cause
fear more panic attacks

Symptoms - suffered at least 1 panic attack

Question 5

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Answer 5

anxiety disorder
arises when person feels intense fear, horror, or helplessness while experiencing, witnessing, or otherwise confronting extremely traumatic event (involves actual/threatened death/serious injury to self/others)

Symptoms: insomnia, angry outbursts, poor concentration, vigilance

*Symptoms present for more than 1 month

Question 6

Acute Stress Disorder

Answer 6

anxiety disorder
same as PTSD

*Symptoms present for a month or less

Question 7

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Answer 7

anxiety disorder
characterized by obsessions, compulsions, or both

Obsession = repeated, intrusive, uncontrollable thoughts/impulses that cause stress or anxiety

Compulsion = repeated physical/mental behaviors that are done in response to an obsession or in accordance with a set of rules, in order to reduce distress or to prevent something dreaded from occurring

Question 8

panic attack

Answer 8

occurs in panic disorder

experiences intense dread, along with shortness of breath, chest pain, a choking sensation, and cardiac symptoms (rapid heartbeat)
may also experience sweating, trembling, lightheaded, chills

Question 9

Anxiety Disorder

Answer 9

emotional state of unpleasant physical & mental arousal

characterized by excessive worry, uneasiness, apprehension and fear

Question 10

Somatoform Disorder

Answer 10

characterized primarily by physical symptoms and concerns, which may mimic physical disease
not explainable medically
DO NOT IMPROVE with medical treatment

Question 11

Conversion Disorder

Answer 11

somatoform disorder
emotion/anxiety => physical symptom
change in sensory/motor function that has no discernible physical/psychological cause
significantly affected by psychological factors
causes significant distress/impairment

Question 12

Pain disorder (chronic pain syndrome)

Answer 12

somatoform disorder
clinically important pain
significantly affected by psychological factors
causes significant distress/impairment

Question 13

Somatization disorder

Answer 13

somatoform disorder
variety of physical symptoms over an extended period of time
had at least 8 physical symptoms by the age of 30 (not fully explained by by any physical/mental cause)

Physical Symptoms-
1. pain in at least 4 areas of the body
2. at least 2 gastrointestinal symptoms (not including pain)
3. at least 1 sexual symptom
4. at least 1 pseudoneurological symptom (poor balance, double vision)
cause significant impairment

Question 14

Body Dismorphic Disorder

Answer 14

somatoform disorder
preoccupied w/slight physical anomaly/imagined defect in appearance
causes significant distress and impairment

Question 15

Hypochondriasis

Answer 15

somatoform disorder
preoccupied with fears of having a serious illness for at least 6 months
fears based on misinterpretation of bodily symptoms
not relieved when investigation reveals no illness