Definition
Uneasiness, uncertainty, helplessness in a state of tension
Anxiety
occurs frequently in persons with irritable bowel syndrome, headaches, sleep disturbances, and substance abuse
Generalized anxiety
Pulling hair from body
Trichotillomania
Antidepressant and psychotherapy is treatment
*risk of suicide*
Adjustment disorder
A girl who thinks she cannot sing studies to become an expert pianist
Efforts to directly face and handle the problem
Coping mechanism
Two types of panic attacks
Agoraphobia: anxiety about possible situations (public)
phobia: involve specific situations or objects; they can stem from a fear of people, animals, objects, situations, or occurrences
picking of the skin with fingers, needles, or other objects despite efforts to stop
Excoriation Disorder
designed to help clients learn how their illogical thinking leads to maladaptive behaviors
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Rationalization
A student justifies failing an examination by saying that there was too much material to cover.
Psychological strategies that help lessen anxious feelings
Defense mechanisms
consistent failure to speak when one is expected to do so, while the individual remains able to speak in other situations
Selective mutism
Gambling, shopping, excessive sexual activity
OCD
What is the 1st priority of care.
Protect client from injury to self and others
Separation of anxious feelings from content to cope unemotionally with topics that would normally be overwhelming
Isolation
When individual anxiety is Broad long lasting and excessive
Generalized anxiety
thought + recurring behavior that is specific that must happen to reduce anxiety
OCD
People who experience sexual abuse, gun violence, serious accident may have
PTSD
Clients is itching after taking benzodiazepines and also has a rash what would you do
Encourage use of tepid (Luke warm) baths without soap
Unconscious channeling of unacceptable behaviors into constructive, more socially approved areas
A hostile young man who enjoys fighting becomes a football player.
Sublimation
Fear of dying
Thanatophobia
frequently examine themselves in the mirror and believe their flaw makes them ugly
Body dysmorphia
*** conflict between 2 opposing forces within an individual ***
Psychodynamic model
What is flooding
method for treating phobias rapidly and repeatedly exposes clients to the feared object or situation until anxiety levels diminish
A young man with homosexual feelings, which he finds to be threatening, engages in excessive heterosexual activity
Reaction formation