Symptoms & Diagnoses
Twin Studies in OCD suggest that one of its main causes is:
What is/are Genetics?
Episodes of skin-picking, taking place when a person feels stressed, tense, and anxious, causing the urge to pick, squeeze, or scratch at the skin.
What is Excoriation Disorder?
The psychodynamic approach suggests that _______ is caused by unconscious conflict from a clash between the urges of the id, and the desire of the superego to do the right thing.
What is OCD?
In a _______ therapy session, a person with a phobia might be asked to be near the feared stimulus and stay there with support by the therapist until there is a reduction of the fear response.
What is "Reconsolidation Therapy"?
The experience of thoughts and urges that are intrusive and unwanted and/or the need to engage in repetitive behaviors or mental acts. Diagnosis:
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
Disorder with a a high rate of comorbidity with other psychiatric conditions, especially with mood and anxiety disorders.
What is Excoriation Disorder?
The cognitive view that thinking about an action is the same as doing it, is known as ___ ___ ___, which is seen as "just as bad" as the action itself.
What is "thought-action fusion"?
A person with an obsessive view of themself, believing they are a failure and incapable of success, may engage in ritualistic organizing behaviors. Diagnosis may be:
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
Major dissatisfaction with a part of their body, which affects the individual's self-esteem and creates a desire to have it changed or removed.
What is Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)?
Some stressors within the Traumatic & Stressor Related Disorders involve traumatic events or situations in which a person is exposed to actual or threatened death or serious injury. An example:
What are natural disasters? Can also include: exposure to military combat, threatened or actual physical assaults (e.g., physical attacks, sexual assault, robbery, childhood abuse), terrorist attacks, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and automobile accidents.
The _______ perspective emphasizes the potential for self-actualization and good in all people.
Of the children who are diagnosed with OCD, most will experience ________ obsessions, with obsessive fears of becoming ill and compulsive behaviors to make everything in their area sanitized.
What are "contamination" obsessions?
Referred to as “pathological collecting”, patients have severe anxiety over discarding possessions.
What is Hoarding Disorder?
A person with this disorder perceives their environment to be unsafe with no easy way to escape.
What is Agoraphobia?
In this treatment, the individual learns a new response to compete with troublesome behaviors caused by a number of conditions, such as hair-pulling and skin-picking disorders.
What is "Habit Reversal Training" (HRT)?
_______ in children can look a little different. Younger kids can show more fearful, regressive behaviors and aggressive behaviors. They may have lasting feelings of anxiety or physical reactions.
What is PTSD (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder)?
This disorder includes recurrent hair-pulling from the scalp and face, and other areas of the body, in spite of repeated attempts to stop the hair-pulling.
What is Trichotillomania?
PTSD learning models suggest that some symptoms are developed and maintained through this:
What is classical conditioning?
A type of CBT, called exposure and response prevention, has been shown to be effective in reducing compulsive behaviors in ___________.
What is OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder)?
As discussed in class, treatment that includes deep ________ and guided _________ can be helpful in overcoming phobias and other anxiety conditions.
What are "relaxation" and "imagery"?