Acute Stress Disorder & Adjustment Disorder
This disorder is characterized by a maladaptive reaction stressors that results in the
development of clinically significant emotional or behavioral symptoms.
What is adjustment disorder?
An event or series of events that an individual experiences as harmful and that has long lasting adverse effects on the individual’s mental, physical, social, emotional, or spiritual well-being.
What is trauma?
In this stage of the Cycle of Violence, the abuser becomes extremely loving, kind, and contrite.
What is Phase III. Calm, Loving, Respite (“Honeymoon”) Phase?
This is a ritualistic behavior that a client feels driven to perform to reduce the anxiety due to obsessive thoughts.
What is a compulsion?
This class of anxiolytic are used PRN when a client is
feeling particularly anxious.
What is a benzodiazepine?
What is acute stress disorder?
This class of medication is first line treatment for PTSD.
What is SSRI medication?
True / False: Most occurrences of rape are premeditated by a perpetrator who knows the abused individual
True
When someone is experiencing this level of anxiety, the person is unable to focus or attend to the environment. The person experiences somatic symptoms of anxiety.
What is panic?
Psychotherapy for this anxiety disorder includes systematic desensitization and flooding.
What is a phobia?
This is the most common treatment for
adjustment disorder.
What is individual psychotherapy?
Using person-first language, assuming all clients may have a history of trauma, and being respectful to clients are examples of this type of care. This type of care should be practiced in every health care setting as health care settings put clients in vulnerable positions.
What is trauma-informed care?
Parents refusing to allow their runaway child to return home is an example of what type of child abuse?
What is child neglect?
This word translate to "fear of the marketplace." It is a symptom that can occur with or without panic disorder. People with this symptom worry about being in place in which escape is difficult.
What is agoraphobia?
Fluvoxamine is an FDA approved to treat what anxiety disorder?
What is OCD?
In this intervention for adjustment disorder, a mental health care provider focuses on quickly returning the client to baseline functioning through problem-solving techniques and drawing on the client's previous coping skills.
What is crisis intervention?
A type of therapy that allows the patient to re-live the experience that caused their PTSD. The exposure starts as least stressful to more traumatic, until the patient can re-experience the trauma with minimal amounts of stress.
What is Prolonged Exposure Therapy?
When is an individual being abused by an intimate partner most at risk of being killed by the partner?
When the individual tries to leave the relationship
In this anxiety disorder the client avoids activities that may result in negative outcomes, or spends considerable time preparing for such activities. The client procrastinates due to anxiety, struggles to make decisions, and repeatedly seeks reassurance from others.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
This is a fast-acting neurotransmitter that "stops" neurons in the central nervous system. It i is a key element in psychopharmacological treatments of anxiety disorders.
What is GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)?
This time-limited therapy is recommended for acute stress disorder to help the individual recognize and modify trauma-related thoughts and beliefs.
What is cognitive behavioral therapy?
What does EMDR stand for? It is a therapy treatment of PTSD.
What is eye movement desensitization and reprocessing?
Findings of this CDC study conducted at Kaiser Permanente highlight that 1 in 5 Americans were sexually molested as a child; 1 in 4 children were beaten by a parent to point of a mark being left on their body; 1 and 3 couples engage in physical violence.
What is the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study?
This anxiety disorder is defined as the recurrent
pulling out of one’s hair that results in hair loss. It often occurs co-morbidly with other psychiatric disorders such as OCD and BPD.
What is trichotillomania?
This medication was the first medication FDA approved for the treatment of OCD.
What is clomipramine?