Exemplars for Stress and Coping

Question 1

Go with their days filled with intense tension and worry, even if no external stressors are present. diagnosed when excessive worrying is out of proportion to stressors, interferes with daily functioning, and occurs for a period of time of at least 6 months.

• pervasive apprehension and worry
• irritability and agitation
• Tachycardia
• shortness of breath
• sleep disturbances

Answer 1

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Question 2

fear being lost from their family and fear something bad happening to a loved one. Inappropriate of excessive worry about being apart from people to whom they are attached, may refuse to sleep alone, and may refuse to go to school. Symptoms must last for atleast 4 weeks to be considered a disorder. commonly occurs in children 7-9.

• extreme uneasiness
• refusal to visit friends
• refusal to go to school

Answer 2

Separation anxiety disorder

Question 3

characterized by sudden attacks of terror, sometimes accompanied by a pounding heart, sweating, fainting, or dizziness. An individual will feel flushed or chilled, hands will tingle or become numb, and may experience nausea, chest pain, and a sense of breathlessness, in addition to a sense of unreality, a fear of impending death, and a terror of losing control. An attack last around 10 minutes. Twice as common in women than men

• impending doom
• dilated pupils
• dizzy
• choking or suffocating feeling
• sudden and spontaneous
• recurrent attacks

Answer 3

Panic Disorder

Question 4

• traumatic even
• emotionally unresponsive
• amnesia
• significant distress
• flashbacks
• avoidance of reminders

Answer 4

Acute Stress Disorder

Question 5

risk factors; 
age 
gender
family history
external locus of control
traumatic events
observation fears

Answer 5

risk factors of phobias

Question 6

experience intense, persistent fear or anxiety associated with a particular object or situation, called a stressor, and tend to avoid that stressor at all costs. may exhibit and external locus of control. There are three subtypes: specific, agoraphobia, social anxiety disorder.

Answer 6

phobia

Question 7

believe their actions and, choices, and behaviors impact life events.

Answer 7

internal locus of control

Question 8

believe that powers outside of themselves, such as luck or fate, determine their life events.

Answer 8

external locus of control

Question 9

characterized by anxiety associated with two or more of the following situations; being in enclosed spaces, being in open spaces, using public transportation, being in a crowd or standing in a line of people, or being alone outside the home environment.

Answer 9

Agoraphobia

Question 10

intense or extreme fear with regard to a particular object or situation such as spiders, snakes, flying or heights.

Answer 10

specific phobia

Question 11

characterized by pervasive, extreme fear of one of more social situations that may lead to scrutiny by others.

• public speaking
• speaking to a supervisor

Answer 11

social anxiety disorder

Question 12

an acute situation caused by an event that creates disequilibrium.

Answer 12

crisis

Question 13

what are the two types of crisis?

Answer 13

situational and maturational (developmental crisis)

Question 14

During a crisis you want to….

Answer 14

• frequent communication
• to be brief
• to be simple
• to be direct