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Stress-Related Disorders and Anxiety Disorders Flashcards

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What characterizes stress and anxiety disorders within the nervous system

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Elevated levels of AROUSEL and ANXIETY

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What are the symptoms of mood disorders and why are they different than stress and anxiety disorders

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They show more depressed levels but the are most commonly co-diagnosised

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What will diagnosis look at

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Biological SYMPTOMS with the enviromental CONTEXT and its STRESSORS

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What is the Hans Selys’s General Adaptation Syndrome

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Alarm-resistance-exhaustion

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What is the abnormalities anxiety shows within the hand selys’s general adaptation syndrome

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Excessive biological response or exhaustion

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What is the nature of the stressor

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Good/bad and short/long term

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What is maladaptive coping

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Doing nothing about the problem. Ex. drugs, alcohol

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What are the two types of focused coping that you have to balance

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Emotion and problem

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What is PTSD

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A long-term negative reaction to a traumatic event

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What are some other names of PTSD

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shell shock, battle fatigue, combat exhaustion

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Is PTSD tied only to military action

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No

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What are triggering events

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Life-threatening with a felling of being trapped and POWERLESS

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Did the DSM-5 expand PTSD to people who did not directly experience the event

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Yes

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What is the stressor of PTSD

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Event, exposure

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Who are some workers that can get PTSD

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First responders, people who hear about child abuse

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What are the intrusion symptoms of PTSD

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The event is re-experienced through memories, nightmare, dissociative reactions, distress after reminders

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What is avoidance in PTSD

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Persistent efforful avoidance

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What are some of the alterations in cognitions and mood with PTSD

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Negative alerations in cognitions and mood. Dissociative amnesia, the world is bad, diminished interest, can’t be happy

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What alterations in arousal and reactivity with PTSD

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On edge, sleep disterbances, irritable, reckless, exaggerated starle response

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What are the challenges surrounding PTSD diagnosising

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Fear of being seen as WEAK, ROLES, underminig of CAREER, lack of SUPPORT, SKEPTICAL

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Who is at risk for PTSD from the pandemic

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Healthcare WORKERS, SURVIVORS

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What is characterized by abnormal levels of arousal, tensions, fear or a sense of coming toruble

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Anxiety disorders

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Can the symptoms of anxiety disorders be physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavior

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Yes

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What did anxiety disorders use to be classified as

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Neuroses, included other non-anxiety disorders

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Why are women more likely to have anxiety disorders
Makes men look WEAK, DEMANDS of domestic labor
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What is a panic disorder
RECURRING experiences of intense PANIC, with no obvious TRIGGER or casue
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What are the symptoms of a panic disorder
HEART rate, SHORTness of BREATHE, sweating, dizzy
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What are some feeling associated with panic attacks
Losing CONTROL or DYING
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What is an uncued panic attack
Out of the blue
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What is a situationaly bound panic attack
TIED with a specific, known trigger
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What is the DSM criterion for panic disorders
CONCERN anout another attack, WORRY about what the attack will do, change in BEHAVIOR
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How many americans are affected by panic disorders
1-4%
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What are the biological factors of panic disorders
SUFFOCATION false alarm theory (dispropportionate response to low stimui), low levels of GABA
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What do antianxiety drugs do
Raise GABA
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Are panic attacks a cycle
Yes
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What is a phobic disorder
Irrational FEAR that is disproportionate
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When is a phobic disorder a problem
When is AFFECTS your life
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Which type of phobias have an earlier onset
Spefific
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Which type of phobias have a later onset
SOCIAL and agoraphobia
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What is a specific phobia
An irrational fear of a specific object or situation
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What is social phobia
Social anxiety disorderm fear of SOCIAL interactions, fear of JEDGEMENT
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What is agoraphobia
Fear of a situation that is our of proportion, fear of being in an UNSAFE PLACE
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Does agoraphobia have a cycle
Yes because you feel better when you stay inside
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What does agoraphobia settle in
28 years old
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What is body dysmorphic, hoarding, trichotillomania and excoriation disorder catorgerized into
Obessive-compulsive disorders
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What are obsessions in the DSM
PERSISTANT thoughts, INTRUSIVE, they try to SUPPRESS or NEUTRALIZE the thoughts
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What is compulsion in the DSM
Repetitve behaviors to PREVENT or REDUCE distress
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When is OCD an issue
When it's TIME consuming and interferes with the person's life
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How many people of OCD
2-3%
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What oculd possibly be wrong with the amygdala with people that have OCD
feedback issues
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What is the psychodynamic perspective on anxiety
UNCOUNSCIOUS fears
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What is the treatment for the psychodynamic perspective of anxiety
Free the ego from the unconscious
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What is the learning perspective with OCD and anxiety
Two-factor model (mowrer)
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What is the two-factor model
Bad ASSOCIATION then agoraphobic behavior is REINFORCED
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What are the two traetment options for the learning perspective related to anxiety and OCD
Systematic densensitvation and floodin
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What does the cognitive perspective think about anxiety
Maladaptive conitions: overprediction, exaggeration, oversensitivity, low self-efficacy
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What does cognitive restructuring do
Change self-defeating thoughts with coping thoughts
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What is prolonged exposure therapy
A form of CBT used for treatment of PTSD, can be imaginal or in vivo
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What are some cognitive treatments for anxiety and OCD
Virtual reality, breathing training, response prevention (OCD, nothing bad happens if you don't do it), Social skills training
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What are the biologicla treatments
Anti-anexty drugs
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What drugs do they use for right after a traumatic event
Beta-blockers (propranolo)

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