Medications
This type of medication promotes relaxation and is used to treat anxiety and insomnia.
What are anxiolytics and/or sedatives?
This refers to distorted or bizarre thoughts, perceptions, emotions, movements, and behavior and consists of positive and negative symptoms
What is Schizophrenia?
What is exposure therapy?
This is the body's response to pain, heat, toxins, and restraint and later the mind's emotional responses to real or perceived stressors.
What is general adaptation syndrome?
This is a ritualistic or repetitive behavior that a person carries out continuously in an attempt to decrease anxiety.
What is a compulsion?
This class of medications usually end in "PAM" or "LAM" and are used for anxiety, seizures, preoperative sedation, and alcohol withdrawal.
What are benzodiazepines?
These are the three major elements of PTSD.
What are dreams or recurring thoughts, emotional numbing, and hyperarousal?
This type of therapy has been proven especially beneficial in rape victims as well as combat veterans. It focuses on feelings of self-blame and guilt.
What is Cognitive processing therapy?
In this level the client knows something is wrong, they are nervous, agitated, have difficulty concentrating, but are still able to be redirected?
What is moderate anxiety?
This type of compulsion refers to "nail biting".
What is onychophagia?
This is the first non-benzodiazepine medication to be FDA approved for long term use and has the side effect of anterograde amnesia?
What is Eszopiclone (Lunesta)?
This disorder occurs after an event that was less than 3 months prior.
What is acute stress disorder?
What is adaptive disclosure?
This client is afraid of others watching or judging them. They have a ___________ phobia.
What is a social phobia or social anxiety disorder?
A person suffering from this will have hoarding tendencies and often have rooms of things that were purchased and never opened.
What is oniomania (compulsive buying)?
This typical antipsychotic is a first generation Phenothiazine PROTOTYPE.
What is Chlorpromazine (Thorazine and Largactil)?
The symptoms of this disorder develop within a month and last no longer than 6 months when the client has either moved on to another diagnosis or symptoms have resolved.
What is adjustment disorder?
This type of treatment involves the therapist's use of questions to more realistically appraise the situation.
What is decatastrophizing?
The biologic theory that neurochemical imbalances are the cause of some anxiety disorders focus on what 2 specific neurotransmitters?
What are GABA and serotonin?
The person responsible for the first cognitive model that is now known as cognitive-behavioral therapy.
Who is Aaron Beck?
What is Risperidone (Risperdal)?
The child with this disorder has no issues walking up to a complete stranger and hugging them, ready to talk about all that happened in their day.
What is disinhibited social engagement disorder (DSED)?
This type of treatment helps the client take more control over their life situations and involve "I" statements.
What is assertiveness training?
The theorist that focused on intrapsychic and psychoanalytic theories and discussed defense mechanisms in response to stress and anxiety.
Who is Freud?
This type of treatment for OCD delays the client from performing the rituals as they learn to tolerate the thoughts and anxiety.
What is response prevention?