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The spectrum of stress
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What is an unwanted image, idea, urge or thought?

Obsession

100

What type of therapy that is exposing the client to an obsession or fear and preventing them from completing the compulsive behavior?

Exposure and Response Prevention therapy (ERP)

100

Anxiety disorder characterized by obsessions and compulsions

Obessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

100

What is it called when components of mental experience are split from consciousness but remain accessible through dreams and hypnosis

Dissociation

100

Hoarding disorder is comorbid with which disorders?

GAD, MDD, ADHD

100

This disorder encompasses emotional and behavorial symptoms (depression, anxiety,)  that arise within 3 months as response to a stressor of any severity

Adjustment Disorder
200

Repetitive behaviors or mental acts that an individual feels thye must perform in an effort to reduce anxiety and stress

Compulsion

200

ERP  is a specialized form of which type of therapy?

CBT

200

What is one disorder we use EMDR to treat?

PTSD

200

Paralysis, tremors, blindness, mutism, & loss of hearing are all symptoms of which disorder

FND

200

What is the primary difference between Somatic Symptom Disorder (SSD) and Functional Nerurological Symptom Disorder?

SSD: a mental health condition where a person has an extreme, distressing focus on physical symptoms—such as pain, fatigue, or shortness of breath—that results in major disruption to their daily life 

FND:Loss of neurologic functioning in a sensory or motor area of the body without physical cause

200

This disorder results from significant neglect and/or trauma. Affected children have difficulty forming emotional attachments to others, are emotionally withdrawn, and show little positive affect.

Reactive Attachment Disorder

300

invisible, internal mental acts or cognitive rituals performed to reduce anxiety caused by an obsession

covert compulsion
300
During this therapy, a patient recalls a distressing memory while focusing on the therapist's moving fingers with their eyes.

EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing)

300

What is the primary difference between Somatic Symptom Disorder and Anxiety Illness Disorder? 

Somatic Symptom Disorder involves physical symptoms 

300

What are the different identities of a person diagnosed with DID called?

There is a host and the others are alters
300

How many personalities does the DSM say a person must have in order to be diagnosed with DID?

At least two--host and one alter

300

What is one of the psychological factors in the theories of PTSD?

•Pre-existing conditions increase risk (comorbidity)

•Coping strategies influence vulnerability to PSTD

•Finding a sense of purpose or meaning may increase coping

400

Severity, Proximity, and Duration are part of which theory for which disorder?

This is a Social and enivronmental factor of PTSD

400

What three therapies are used for SSD and IAD?

Psychodynamic therapy, behaviorial therapy, and cognitive therapy 

400

The disorder where people have an intense fear of developing symptoms related to their health, but they do not have any actual symptoms (or they have very mild symptoms that they are overly sensitive to)

Illness Anxiety Disorder

400

Persecutor is an example of what ?

An alter in someone with DID
400

This disorder is characterized as a psychological disorder that involves persistent and uncontrollable urges to keep items that have no utility or instrumental value

Hoarding Disorder

400

Dissociative Amnesia 

An inability to recall important personal and autobiographical information—usually of a traumatic or stressful nature

500

observable,external physical actions that a person feels driven to perform to reduce anxiety or prevent a feared outcome

overt compulsion

500

Why are people with somatic disorders or dissociative disorders often resistant to therapy?

They are unaware they have a psychological condition. 

500

Which disorder is highly comorbid with Illness Anxiety Disorder?

Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)

500

What are the two forms of dissociation related to PTSD?

Derealization and Depersonaliztion

500

What is a difference between Somatic Symptom Disorder and Anxiety Illness Disorder?

SSD: A person experiences one or more real, distressing physical symptoms (such as chronic pain, fatigue, or stomach upset) and spends an excessive amount of time, thoughts, and emotional distress fixated on them 

IAD: A person has mild or no physical symptoms, yet harbors an intense, persistent fear or preoccupation with having or acquiring a serious undiagnosed disease 

500

How many phases is the trauma focused psychotherapy process for the treatment of DID?

three phases 

600

ASD and PTSD have the same symptoms outside of which factors?

Time of onset and duration

600

What are the first line of pharmacological treatments for OCD and related disorders?

SSRIs and SNRIs

600

Which disorder involves falsifying illness in another person?

Factitious disorder imposed on another (by proxy)

600

What is the process called when one alter takes over or pushes out the host or another alter?

Switching

600

This disorder involves the development of inappropriate and overly familiar behavior with adult strangers, usually to do with neglectful & abusive experiences

Disinhibited social engagement disorder

600

Dissociatiave Fugue

A rare subtype or specifier of dissociative amnesia that involves a sudden, purposeful departure or "psychological flight" from one's usual home or workplace

700

a sudden intense experience where the person feels they are actually reliving the event

flashback

700

A form of Cognitive-behavioral therapy that focuses on developing skills that allow the individual to cope with stress

Stress innoculation therapy

700

Deliberate faking of an illness to gain attention

factitious disorder imposed on self 

700

Social Media has had a strong impact on this disorder characterized by extreme worry about physical appearance

Body dysmorphic disorder

700

What is Trichotillomania?

Disorder characterized by pulling one's own hair out

700

disorder characterized by pulling at one’s own skin

Excoriation