Anxiety Disorders
True or False, Anxiety impairs social relationships.
True
What is the best course of action to help someone with anxiety?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder more commonly known as?
OCD
What is the most effective treatment?
Cognitive behavioral therapy combined with antidepressants.
What is comorbidity?
It is the idea that disorders overlap because of common underlying disorders.
What is the classification for anxiety disorders?
DSM-5
For sever levels of anxiety, what can be added in addition to cognative-behavioral therapy to help the patient out?
Anti-Anxiety Medication
What are obsessions?
Recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses, or
images that cause distressing emotions such as anxiety or disgust
What is the idea behind the behavioral component of CBT?
Maladaptive behavior is the result of learned behavior
Why is it important to be careful when diagnosing a person?
If someone is diagnosed incorrectly and treated for something that they do not have, it will cause bigger problems. Also, a lot of disorders may look similar but need to be treated differently.
Define Anxiety
Fear that is considered excessive compared to the actual threat
What does cognative-behavioral therapy challenge?
Feeling, behaviors, and thoughts
What are compulsions?
Repetitive behaviors or mental acts that a person feels driven to perform in response to an obsession.
What is the idea behind the cognitive component of CBT?
Maladaptive behavior is the result of distorted thoughts and emotions
How is DSM-5 used?
If disorders can be grouped based on similar etiologies and symptoms, then figuring out how to treat those disorders should be easier.
What are some effects of anxiety?
bodily systems, the likely-hood of long term physical health problems, restless motor systems, problems with memory and problem solving
What is the goal of a therapist?
To slow down the patients thoughts and think about some of their immediate interpretations that they are making.
What is the classification of an OCD disorder?
DSM-5
What are the aspects that compulsive behavioral therapy works to break?
Anxiety, compulsions, relief, and obsessions
What does DSM-5 stand for?
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fifth Addition.
What are the five common types of anxiety disorders?
Specific Phobia, Social Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, and Agorophobia
What are the three key aspects of the behavioral model?
exposure, escape prevention, and desensitization
What is the predicted ratio of children and teenagers that have and do not have OCD?
1 in 200 children and teenagers have OCD
If the combination of cognitive behavioral therapy and antidepressants do not work, what else can be done?
Exposure and response therapy
What causes these disorders?
There is no set cause for these disorders. They are all very complex which would make it hard to pinpoint one reason that causes all of these disorders.