Anxiety and Related Disorders
Repetitive ritualistic behaviors or mental acts that the individual feels driven to perform which are intended to reduce the anxiety associated with obsessive thoughts.
What are compulsions?
This disorder is manifested by physical symptoms that may be vague, dramatized or exaggerated in their presentation.
What is Somatic Symptom Disorder?
This disorder is characterized by a pattern of intense and chaotic relationships with affective instability and fluctuating attitudes towards other people.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
This spectrum of disorders includes a wide range of symptoms and levels of severity that affect thinking, feeling, communication and social relationships.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
Nurses are __________ reports of abuse.
What are mandatory reporters?
Patients with this type of anxiety disorder have an excessive fear of doing something embarrassing or being negatively evaluated in front of others.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder?
Symptoms of this disorder include amenorrhea, lanugo, bradycardia, peripheral edema, hypothermia and hypotension with orthostatic changes
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
Individuals with this disorder have an exaggerated sense of self-worth and believe that they have the right to receive special treatment and consideration.
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
First line treatment for ADHD.
What are CNS Stimulants?
The school nurse finds multiple bruises, on various body parts, on a student. This could suggest what type of abuse?
What is physical abuse?
This treatment for specific phobias involves exposing the patient to the feared stimulus in increasing amounts.
What is systematic desensitization?
What is Functional Neurological Disorder?
This therapy type is considered first line treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder.
What is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)?
This disorder involves the presence of multiple motor tics and one or more vocal tics.
What is Tourette's Disorder?
A multi symptom response triggered by an extremely traumatic event.
What is PTSD?
This disorder is characterized by unpredictable recurrent attacks which are manifested by intense apprehension, physical discomfort and fea.
What is Panic Disorder?
Risks of this disorder include dehydration, electrolyte imbalance and erosion of tooth enamel due to purging.
What is Bulimia Nervosa?
Individuals with this personality disorder often appear cold, aloof and indifferent to others. They prefer isolation and do not desire relationships.
What is Schizoid Personality Disorder?
This disorder is characterized by a frequent and persistent pattern of angry mood and defiant behavior that occurs more frequently than is usually observed in individuals of comparable age.
What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)?
This philosophical approach values awareness and understanding of trauma when assessing, planning and implementing care.
That is Trauma-Informed Care?
The DSM5 states that at least 4 specific symptoms must be present to identify the presence of a panic attack. Name 4 symptoms...
What are Palpatations, sweating, shaking, sensations of shortness of breath, feelings of choking, chest pain, nausea or abdominal distress, dizziness/lightheadedness, chills or heat sensations, paresthesias, derealization or depersonalization, fear of losing control or going crazy, fear of dying?
This disorder is characterized by the existence of two or more personality states within one individual. Switching between personalities serves to decrease anxiety and to isolate stressful or painful events.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
People with this personality disorder present with behavior that is odd and eccentric. They have symptoms that can look similar to schizophrenia.
What is Schizotypal Personality Disorder?
These three disorders are the most common causes of psychopathology in older adults.
What are Neurocognitive disorders, depression and anxiety?
This disorder is characterized by a maladaptive reaction to an identifiable stressor that results in the development of clinically significant emotional or behavioral symptoms. The response occurs within 3 months and persists for no longer than 6 months.
What is adjustment disorder?