Mood state characterised by negative affect, tension, and apprehension about the future.
What is Anxiety.
100
Repetitive, ritualistic, time consuming behaviours or mental acts a person feels driven to perform
What are Compulsions
100
Anxiety about being in a place or situation from which escape might be difficult.
What is Agoraphobia.
100
Sudden, overwhelming fright or terror.
What is PANIC.
100
Diagnosed 1 to 3 months following a traumatic event.
What is Acute Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
200
Emotion of an immediate alarm reaction to present danger or life-threatening emergencies.
What is Fear.
200
Recurrent or intrusive thoughts that a person wished to neutralise or suppress.
What are Obsessions.
200
Fear of situations or events in nature, especially heights, storms, and water.
What is Natural Environment Phobia.
200
Abrupt experience of intense fear or discomfort accompanied by a number of physical symptoms such as dizziness or heart palpitations.
What is a Panic Attack.
200
Disorder diagnosed within the first month of a traumatic event.
What is Acute Stress Disorder.
300
Anxiety disorder characterised by unfocussed and uncontrollable worry accompanied by physical symptoms such as restlessness, irritability, and tenseness.
What is Generalised Anxiety Disorder.
300
Most effective psychological treatment for OCD.
What is exposure and ritual prevention.
300
Specific phobia that has the highest prevalence.
What is Snakes.
300
Cognitive behavioural treatment for panic attacks involving expose to feared symptoms.
What is Panic Control Therapy.
300
When onset of the disorder occurs at least 6 months after the traumatic event.
What is delayed onset post traumatic stress disorder.
400
Excessive fear in some children that harm will come to them or their parents while they are apart.
What is Separation Anxiety Disorders.
400
Most radical treatment for OCD
What is psychosurgery, specifically cingulotomy.
400
Anxiety involving public places or transportation.
What is Situational Phobia.
400
During a period of sleep, an individual is unable to move and experiences a surge of terror that resembles a panic attack, occasionally accompanied by hallucinations.
What is isolated sleep paralysis.
400
Name three of the five physical symptoms associated with a diagnosis of PTSD.
What are:
Difficulty falling or staying asleep
Irritability or outbursts of anger
Difficulty concentrating
Hypervigilance
Exaggerated startle response
500
The four symptom subtypes for OCD.
What is symmetry/exactness/just right, hoarding, cleanliness/contamination, and forbidden thoughts and actions.
500
Name the five different types of specific phobias and give an example of each.
What is animal, situational, blood-injury-injection, natural environment, and other (eg. clowns).
500
behaviours which involve removing yourself from situations or activities that might produce the physiological arousal that somehow resembles the beginnings of a panic attack.
What is Interoceptive Avoidance.
500
Two main treatments for PTSD
What are Psychotherapy (imaginal exposure) and SSRI's.