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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

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Makes men look WEAK, DEMANDS of domestic labor

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What is a panic disorder

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RECURRING experiences of intense PANIC, with no obvious TRIGGER or casue

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What are the symptoms of a panic disorder

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HEART rate, SHORTness of BREATHE, sweating, dizzy

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What are some feeling associated with panic attacks

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Losing CONTROL or DYING

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What is an uncued panic attack

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Out of the blue

30
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What is a situationaly bound panic attack

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TIED with a specific, known trigger

31
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What is the DSM criterion for panic disorders

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CONCERN anout another attack, WORRY about what the attack will do, change in BEHAVIOR

32
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How many americans are affected by panic disorders

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1-4%

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What are the biological factors of panic disorders

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SUFFOCATION false alarm theory (dispropportionate response to low stimui), low levels of GABA

34
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What do antianxiety drugs do

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Raise GABA

35
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Are panic attacks a cycle

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Yes

36
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What is a phobic disorder

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Irrational FEAR that is disproportionate

37
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When is a phobic disorder a problem

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When is AFFECTS your life

38
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Which type of phobias have an earlier onset

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Spefific

39
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Which type of phobias have a later onset

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SOCIAL and agoraphobia

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What is a specific phobia

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An irrational fear of a specific object or situation

41
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What is social phobia

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Social anxiety disorderm fear of SOCIAL interactions, fear of JEDGEMENT

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What is agoraphobia

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Fear of a situation that is our of proportion, fear of being in an UNSAFE PLACE

43
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Does agoraphobia have a cycle

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Yes because you feel better when you stay inside

44
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What does agoraphobia settle in

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28 years old

45
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What is body dysmorphic, hoarding, trichotillomania and excoriation disorder catorgerized into

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Obessive-compulsive disorders

46
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What are obsessions in the DSM

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PERSISTANT thoughts, INTRUSIVE, they try to SUPPRESS or NEUTRALIZE the thoughts

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What is compulsion in the DSM

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Repetitve behaviors to PREVENT or REDUCE distress

48
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When is OCD an issue

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When it’s TIME consuming and interferes with the person’s life

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How many people of OCD

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2-3%

50
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What oculd possibly be wrong with the amygdala with people that have OCD

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feedback issues

51
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What is the psychodynamic perspective on anxiety

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UNCOUNSCIOUS fears

52
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What is the treatment for the psychodynamic perspective of anxiety

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Free the ego from the unconscious

53
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What is the learning perspective with OCD and anxiety

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Two-factor model (mowrer)

54
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What is the two-factor model

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Bad ASSOCIATION then agoraphobic behavior is REINFORCED

55
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What are the two traetment options for the learning perspective related to anxiety and OCD

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Systematic densensitvation and floodin

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What does the cognitive perspective think about anxiety

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Maladaptive conitions: overprediction, exaggeration, oversensitivity, low self-efficacy

57
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What does cognitive restructuring do

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Change self-defeating thoughts with coping thoughts

58
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What is prolonged exposure therapy

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A form of CBT used for treatment of PTSD, can be imaginal or in vivo

59
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What are some cognitive treatments for anxiety and OCD

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Virtual reality, breathing training, response prevention (OCD, nothing bad happens if you don’t do it), Social skills training

60
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What are the biologicla treatments

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Anti-anexty drugs

61
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What drugs do they use for right after a traumatic event

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Beta-blockers (propranolo)

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