Stress&Coping
Levels of Anxiety
Anxiety Disorders
Personality disorders
Nursing Interventions
100

This early stress theory describes the body's immediate response preparing it to face or escape danger?

Wait is the fight-or-flight response?

100

This level of anxiety improves focus and problem solving

What is mild anxiety?

100

This disorder involves excessive worry lasting months about everyday situations

What is generalized disorder

100

Personality disorders are grouped into clusters

What is cluster A,B,C

100

This therapy is specifically designed to treat self-harm behaviours in borderline personality disorder

What is dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT)

200

Hans Seyle's stress model includes three stages: alarm, resistance, and this final stage when resources are depleted.

What is the exhaustion stage?

200

This level of anxiety involves selective inattention and physical symptoms like increased pulse.

What is moderate anxiety?

200

This disorder involves recurrent panic attacks and future attacks. 

What is a panic disorder

200

This Cluster A personality disorders are often described as this type of behaviour

What is Odd or Eccentric

200

A nursing approach that provides patients with coping strategies and information about their disorder

What is psychoeducation 

300

This neurotransmitter plays an important role in stress.

What is serotonin?

300

At this level learning and problem solving are impossible and the perceptual field is greatly reduced.

What is severe anxiety

300

Persistent irrational fear of objects such as spiders or heights

What is specific phobia

300

This cluster B disorder is characterised by emotional instability, impulsivity, and fear of abandonment

What is borderline personality disorder

300

This relaxation technique involves tensing and relaxing muscle groups

What is progressive muscle relaxation

400

Apprehension, uneasiness, uncertainty or dread from real or perceived threat.

What is anxiety?

400

This is the most extreme level of anxiety and map include disorganized behaviour or hallucinations.

What is panic

400

This disorder includes flashbacks, avoidance, hypervigilance, and re-experiencing trauma

What is PTSD

400

This personality disorder involves a pattern of disregard for the rights of others and breaks the law

That is antisocial personality disorder

400

A cognitive strategy that changes negative or distorted beliefs

What is cognitive reframing

500

Four coping attributes including social supports, life satisfactions, health-sustaining habits and this.

What are effective and healthy responses to stress?

500

Someone who is in a plan and has been told the plan is going into emergency landing, would most likely experience this level of anxiety. 

panic

500

This disorder involves intrusive thoughts and ritualistic behaviours performed to reduce anxiety.

What is OCD

500

This Cluster B disorder involves social inhibition and feelings of inadequacy

What is avoidant personality disorder

500

This nursing assessment should always be prioritized with personality disorders.

What is suicide risk assessment