Anxiety And Other Related Disorders

Question 1

What is anxiety?

Answer 1

Fear out of proportion

Question 2

What is OCD?

Answer 2

When you obsess over doing things and you give into the compulsions and do them

Question 3

What is the difference between anxiety and depression?

Answer 3

When you have anxiety you haven’t given up, but when you have depression you give up

Question 4

What is avoidance?

Answer 4

When you don’t face the thing you’re afraid of, you don’t learn how to cope with them

Question 5

What is exposure with ritual prevention?

Answer 5

Behavior therapy

Slowly build up to what patient is afraid of

Question 6

What is Baxter views?

Answer 6

Changing your behavior can change your brain chemistry

Question 7

What are SSRI’s?

Answer 7

Selective Serotonin are uptake Inhibitors

Question 8

What is the caudate nucleus?

Answer 8

Deep brain structure that helps direct attention to specific things

Question 9

What study did Steinmetz and McFall conduct?

Answer 9

Patients with OCD vs normal patients figuring out patterns with buttons so they didn’t get shocked

5 trials for OCD VS 15 for normal

Question 10

Who is Salkouskis and what is he known for?

Answer 10

Cognitive psychologist

Core issue with OCD is how people react to an unpleasant thought

Question 11

What does Salkouskis say when you can’t stop thinking about something?

Answer 11

Go ahead, think about it but in a productive way

Question 12

What are the primary treatments for OCD?

Answer 12

SSRI’s

ERP

Question 13

What is a phobia?

Answer 13

Irrational fears of specific objects or situations

Question 14

What is significant when someone focuses on one specific phobia?

Answer 14

There’s no social component

Question 15

What is the social anxiety disorder?

Answer 15

Fear of embarrassment

Question 16

What is speech phobia?

Answer 16

Anxiety when you’re speaking publically

Question 17

What is agoraphobia?

Answer 17

Fear of social situation

Question 18

What is systematic desensitization?

Answer 18

Progressively confronting your fears

Question 19

What is a panic attack?

Answer 19

Most extreme form of anxiety

Sudden bursts of terror and anxiety

Question 20

How do you treat panic disorders?

Answer 20

Cognitive behavioral therapy

Question 21

What is cognitive behavioral therapy?

Answer 21

New ways of reactor and new ways of thinking

May induce panic attack to see what helps them

Question 22

What was significant of Barlow’s study?

Answer 22

He learned that CBT therapy was more long term than medicated therapy for patients with panic disorders

Question 23

What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?

Answer 23

Not specific to anything

Constant and lengthy pattern

Question 24

What exercise did MacLeod create?

Answer 24

How you finish a sentence that could be thought of two ways. Either in an optimist or pessimist way

Question 25

What is Tallis' idea?

Answer 25

People prone to GAD may not be able to tolerate uncertainty

Question 26

What is Roger's thoughts when it comes to making decisions in life?

Answer 26

Trust your gut instinct

Question 27

What study/experiment did Jamieson do?

Answer 27

Students take a standardized test and the students who were told anxiety is a common thing, did better by 50pts on average

Question 28

What are some treatments for GAD

Answer 28

Cognitive way, retrieving facts, exercise, good diet and sleep

Question 29

What is post traumatic stress disorder?

Answer 29

Sleeplessness and nightmares that can occurs after a major psychological event

Question 30

How does the amygdala coincide with PTSD?

Answer 30

It tells your brain "danger" whenever something slightly reminds the brain of the traumatic experience

Question 31

What does the cortex do when paired with PTSD?

Answer 31

Makes you do things that aren't logical but the animal like reactions keeps you alive

Question 32

What are treatments and therapy that would benefit someone with PTSD?

Answer 32

Teach them to ignore impulses by systematic desensitization

Question 33

What is Judith Hermann's logic about PTSD?

Answer 33

Must help client attain a sense of safety, have them remember every detail and tell them to move on.