What is OCD?
DSM-V Criteria
Causes/Theory
Assessment
Intervention/
Treatment
Related Disorders
100
Recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges or images that are intrusive, unwanted, and cause significant anxiety or distress are known as:
Obsessions
100
A _______ basis for OCD states that individuals with OCD have faulty or dysfunctional beliefs and misinterpret intrusive thoughts to create obsessions and compulsions.
Cognitive
100
T or F: Because the DSM criteria for OCD are clear, one source of information is enough for a clinician to make an accurate diagnosis.
False
100
Name the two general types of evidence based practices that are typically used to treat OCD.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Psychopharmacology
100
Involves persistent difficulty in parting with or discarding possessions regardless of actual value.
Hoarding Disorder
200
Common______ include: washing and cleaning, checking, repeating, and others such as collecting items, putting things in order and avoiding trigger situations.
Compulsions
200
An environmental basis for OCD states that OCD in some people may be triggered by a(n):
Traumatic event or injury (TBI)
200
These allow for efficient use of the practitioner and patients time, and help us to rule out incorrect diagnoses.
Pre-Visit Screenings
200
________ _________ __________ is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy in which the child is exposed to his/her feared stimulus or triggers, and asked to refrain from their usual compulsion.
Exposure and Response Prevention
200
Individual is preoccupied with one or more perceived flaw in the body. Flaws are not visible, or only slight to others.
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
300
Compulsions are often used as a:
Temporary escape from anxiety
300
_______ _______ may contribute to the development and maintenance of OCD by creating learned responses that help an individual reduce or prevent anxiety.
Behavioral conditioning
300
Diagnostic interviews use ______ interviews that are based specifically on DSM criteria to help confirm the OCD diagnosis.
Structured
300
The usual medication of choice for the treatment of OCD is:
Antidepressants (SRIs/SSRIs)
300
Characterized by recurrent skin picking that results in damage to the skin, as well as repeated attempts to reduce the behavior.
Excoriation
400
Mental review of events to prevent harm to self or others, praying to prevent harm, counting while preforming task to end on the "right number."
What are mental compulsions?
400
A genetic basis to OCD is supported by:
Twin studies
400
When interviewing others who are familiar with the individual, we must always be aware of:
bias
400
Studies have shown that ____________ is more effective and has longer lasting effects than ___________ in the treatment of OCD.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy/ medication
400
Characterized by recurrent pulling out of one's own hair, as well as repeated attempts to stop the behavior.
Trichotillomania
500
In order to meet DSM-V criteria, the obsessive-compulsive symptoms must be time consuming, taking up more that _____ per day.
One hour
500
One neurological theory of OCD is that OCD sufferers have hyperactivity in the __________ ______.
Orbitofrontal cortex
500
Three (of 7) common differential diagnoses for OCD symptoms include:
Anxiety disorders, major depressive disorder, other obsessive compulsive related disorders, eating disorders, Tic disorders, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, and autism
500
Why have we switched from using mainly SRIs in the treatment of OCD, to mainly SSRIs?
SRIs are linked with many more negative side effects.
500
These include body-focused repetitive behaviors such as nail biting, lip biting, cheek chewing and repeated attempts to stop the behavior.
Other specified obsessive-compulsive and related disorders
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