Terminology
A sudden overwhelming feeling of terror or impending doom.
What is panic?
Helen is a very restless person, she's always nervous and keyed up, she worries about things which she has no control.
What is General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?
A chronic and pervasive condition in the United States.
What is stress?
A type of personality disorder in which the individual has an intense fear of making mistakes.
What is obsessive-compulsive personality disorder?
Drug classification for Xanax.
What is benzodiazepines?
An emergency type of assistance in which the intervener becomes a part of the individual's life situation.
What is crisis intervention?
The subjective emotional response to a stressor or fear.
What is anxiety?
The use of adaptive coping strategies in response to stressful situations in an effort to impede the development of diseases.
Attacks usually last minutes or, more rarely, hours.
What is panic attacks?
Antianxiety drugs are also called...
What is anxiolytics?
The fear of being in places or situations from which escape might be difficult, embarrassing or help might not be available.
What is agoraphobia?
Symptoms of anxiety often mimic...
What is an MI?
A syndrome of physical symptoms that results from an individual's real or perceived notion that harm or danger is imminent.
What is fight-or-flight?
A disorder characterized by the exaggerated belief that the body is deformed or defective in some specific way.
What is body dysmorphic disorder?
Name a beta blocker used to treat clients experiencing anticipatory performance anxiety or "stage fright."
What is propranolol (Inderal) or atenolol (Tenormin)?
A syndrome where the individual has nightmares, flashbacks, and panic attacks.
What is PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder)?
Sometimes called implosion therapy, this is a technique used to desensitize individuals to phobic stimuli.
What is flooding?
A variety of elements that influence how an individual perceives and responds to a stressful event.
The recurrent failure to resist impulses to pull out one's own hair.
What is trichotillomania??
FDA approved for treatment of OCD.
What are SSRIs?
fluoxetine (Prozac), paroxetine (Paxil), sertraline (Zoloft), fluvoxamine (Luvox)
Learning new behaviors by imitating the behaviors of others.
What is modeling?
Sonja refuses to eat in a restaurant, she's afraid others will laugh at the way she eats.
What is Social anxiety disorder?
A nursing student comes down with a sinus infection toward the end of every semester. Name the stage of stress the student is experiencing.
What is exhaustion?
A client diagnosed with OCD spends hours bathing and grooming; discusses the rituals in detail, but avoids any feelings that the rituals generate.
What is intellectualization?
Antihistamine used to treat symptoms of anxiety?
What is Vistaril (hydroxyzine)?