Week 5 - Important Concepts

Question 1

unpleasant emotion aroused by anticipation of awareness of impending danger

Answer 1

fear

Question 2

emotion characterized by the apprehension or dread of a potentially life threatening or uncertain outcome

Answer 2

anxiety

Question 3

Most common mental disorder type worldwide

Answer 3

Anxiety disorders

Question 4

What do all anxiety disorders share as their core symptom?

What is the most important feature?

Answer 4

Excessive fear or anxiety

Client perceives symptoms as unacceptable to self

Question 5

characterized by persistent and excessive anxiety and worry about occupational, social, and interpersonal situations or events that the individual finds difficult to control

Answer 5

GAD

Question 6

What percentage of individuals will experience GAD?

Answer 6

10%

Question 7

characterized by severe obsessions (repetitive, intrusive thoughts), compulsions (repetitive, ritualistic behaviours) or both

Answer 7

OCD

Question 8

characterized by recurrent, unexpected ‘panic attacks’ and fear of triggering further attacks; typically accompanied by fear of death

Answer 8

panic disorder

Question 9

discrete periods of fear or discomfort (10-30 minutes)

Answer 9

panic attacks

Question 10

fear of situations in which escape is hard, or impossible

Answer 10

agoraphobia

Question 11

pairing a somatic discomfort with impending panic attack – somatic symptom is the trigger

Answer 11

interoceptive conditioning

Question 12

misrepresentation of mild physical sensations – get fear of death from this

Answer 12

catastrophic interpretation

Question 13

What are the first lines of treatment for most anxiety disorders/

Answer 13

SSRIs and NSSRIs

Question 14

Most management of anxiety disorders is done where?

Answer 14

in the community

Question 15

PTSD history
Civil war
WWI
WWII
Vietnam War

Answer 15

Soldier’s heart/irritable heart
Shell shock
Battle fatigue
PTSD

Question 16

What are the four symptom clusters of PTSD?

Answer 16

Re-experiencing - flashbacks
Avoidance - withdrawal from relationships
Negative cognitions in mood
Arousal - easily startled

Question 17

idea is that by doing this, prevents PTSD from developing in the first place

Answer 17

trauma treatment

Question 18

What are the components of trauma treatment?

Answer 18

Stabilization
trauma focused therapy
reconnection

Question 19

imagining that the trauma happened to someone else; removing yourself mentally from the situation

Answer 19

dissociative symptoms

Question 20

keep track of reality and desensitize triggers – way to bring the client back into the present moment using the senses

Answer 20

grounding

Question 21

goal is to be able to live in the present and not be stuck in the past

Answer 21

integration of traumatic memories

Question 22

associate traumatic memory with REM of sleep, create situation that while threatening when lived, now that the client is in the present moment, is less threatening

Answer 22

EMDR - eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

Question 23

o Approaching, designing and implementing care based on consideration of what the person has gone through

Answer 23

trauma informed care