Anxiety Disorders 1
Which type of anxiety can be beneficial?
What is mild anxiety?
This is the term used when a client with PTSD initially avoids dealing with the tragedy and becomes detached.
What is psychic numbing?
Name some possible after effects of electro convulsive therapy.
What are HA, soreness of skeletal muscles, temporary confusion, short-term patchy memory loss and brief learning disability?
Name some S/S of alcohol withdrawal.
What are
This condition is manifested by a gradual, irreversible loss of intellectual abilities.
What is dementia?
Name the S/S of severe anxiety.
What are hyperventilation, dizziness, tachycardia, hypertension, and heart palpitations?
Term for a disturbing, persistent, and recurring thought.
What is obsession?
This is a noninvasive method of stimulating the brain to treat depression where short pulses of energy are given through an electromagnetic coil placed against the scalp near the forehead.
What is Transcranial Magnet Stimulation?
This drug is used as a type of aversion therapy for a client with alcoholism.
What is Disulfiram (Antabuse)?
This is the classic symptom of Alzheimer Disease.
What is memory loss?
This disorder is characterized by chronic worrying on a daily basis for 6 or more months.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
This approach provides emotional support while gradually exposing a person to whatever it is that provokes anxiety.
What is desensitization?
This is a sad feeling that can be directly attributed to a situation or cause.
What is Reactive (secondary) depression?
Methadone or Suboxone are used as a maintenance therapy to help clients addicted to this drug.
What is heroin or other opioids?
True or false. The diagnosis of AD is usually made by excluding other causes for the client’s symptoms.
What is true?
This is the first instinct during a panic attack.
What is to escape to a safer place?
This type of therapy is based on the theory that it is not events that provoke anxiety, but the person’s interpretation of events.
What is cognitive therapy?
This is the predominant feature of major depression.
What is a persistently sad mood?
This is the most heavily used addictive, mood-altering substance in the U.S.
What is nicotine?
This is considered to be the cause of the symptoms of schizophrenia.
What is dopamine?
This is a fear of experiencing a panic attack in a place where the person may be publicly humiliated.
What is agoraphobia?
This is the most extreme manifestation of anxiety.
What is panic disorder?
These are the most commonly used treatments for depression.
What are drug therapy, psychotherapy, and in severe cases electroconvulsive therapy?
This is the term used when a person must take increasing amounts of an addictive substance to obtain the desired effect.
What is tolerance?
This is the leading cause of the return of disease symptoms and the need for short-term hospitalization for the client with schizophrenia.
What is non-adherence to drug therapy?