Anxiety Disorders
Phoebe got bit by a dog. Now she is scared of all dogs and avoids them. She has an elevated heart rate and sweats even when people just talk about dogs. What is the diagnosis that best fits Phoebe's symptoms?
What is Specific Phobia, Animal Subtype
This percentage of youth have medical symptoms without a readily identified cause.
What is 20%?
Repeated behavior to reduce distress.
What is a compulsion?
This is the treatment of choice for all the disorders mentioned in this game.
What is CBT?
This is one of the two types that worries and fear peak during typical development.
What is either around age 9 or 11?
The most common early childhood anxiety disorder.
What is Separation Anxiety Disorder?
Tanya wakes up on Sunday afternoon, after a nap, and is completely blind. She notices but seems unconcerned. What diagnosis best fits this presentation?
What is Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder?
This disorder can be summarized by holding onto things with no functional value to the extent that it impairs functioning.
What is Hoarding?
This is the key CBT-based intervention that is important for youth with OCD.
What is exposure and response-prevention?
I am brave is an example of this cognitive therapy technique.
Children with this disorder have major fears of evaluation and tend to be perfectionistic.
What is Social Phobia?
Joshua has multiple medical symptoms for which he has sought treatment at a lot of doctors offices. No doctors can find anything medically wrong with Josh, after very thorough testing. He argues that the doctors are all wrong and is convinced he is dying. What diagnosis best fits Joshua's symptoms?
What is Illness Anxiety Disorder?
This disorder refers to picking at skin such that lesions are formed.
What is Excoriation?
This is the gold standard assessment measure for OCD, specifically.
What is the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale?
There is one disorders (OCD) for which a medication is quite useful, in combination with CBT techniques, and it is...
What is OCD?
This is the most common subtype of Specific Phobia in adolescents.
What is Blood/Injection/Injury?
The most common etiology for a somatic disorder is a combination of these two factors.
What are stress and avoidant coping?
This typical infection can lead to an OCD-like presenatation.
What is strep throat?
These are the two main purposes of assessment of anxiety disorders in childhood.
What are: to determine if typical worries and fears or atypical anxiety and to discriminate among the anxiety disorders?
This behavior can happen when children are worried about evaluation, or what will happen to their parents when they are gone, or when they struggle with making friends or doing well academically.
What is school refusal?
Youth with this disorder tend to have lower heart rates and flattened affect as well as overall reduced reactivity.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
The source of continuity in somatoform disorders.
What is hyperfocus on sickness and reinforcement of sick role?
This temperment profile is associated with OCD.
What is inhibition?
This is the assessment measure to give if you suspect that a child you are working with might have a Specific Phobia.
What is the Revised Fear Survey Schedule for Children?
Many adults with Panic Disorder experience this feeling of being outside of their bodies that kids don't. It is called...
What is Depersonalization?