Definition
anxiety disorders
anxiety disorders
Nursing intervention
Defense mechanisms
100

Uneasiness, uncertainty, helplessness in a state of tension

Anxiety

100

occurs frequently in persons with irritable bowel syndrome, headaches, sleep disturbances, and substance abuse

Generalized anxiety 

100

Pulling hair from body 

Trichotillomania

100

Antidepressant and psychotherapy is treatment

*risk of suicide*

Adjustment disorder

100

A girl who thinks she cannot sing studies to become an expert pianist

compensation
200

Efforts to directly face and handle the problem

Coping mechanism

200

Two types of panic attacks 

Agoraphobia: anxiety about possible situations (public) 

phobia: involve specific situations or objects; they can stem from a fear of people, animals, objects, situations, or occurrences

200

picking of the skin with fingers, needles, or other objects despite efforts to stop

Excoriation Disorder

200

designed to help clients learn how their illogical thinking leads to maladaptive behaviors

Cognitive behavioral therapy 

200

Rationalization

A student justifies failing an examination by saying that there was too much material to cover.

300

Psychological strategies that help lessen anxious feelings 

Defense mechanisms

300

consistent failure to speak when one is expected to do so, while the individual remains able to speak in other situations

Selective mutism

300

Gambling, shopping, excessive sexual activity 

OCD 

300

What is the 1st priority of care. 

Protect client from injury to self and others

300

Separation of anxious feelings from content to cope unemotionally with topics that would normally be overwhelming

Isolation

400

When individual anxiety is Broad long lasting and excessive 

Generalized anxiety 

400

thought + recurring behavior that is specific that must happen to reduce anxiety 

OCD

400

People who experience sexual abuse, gun violence, serious accident may have 

PTSD

400

Clients is itching after taking benzodiazepines and also has a rash what would you do

Encourage use of tepid (Luke warm)  baths without soap

400

Unconscious channeling of unacceptable behaviors into constructive, more socially approved areas 

A hostile young man who enjoys fighting becomes a football player.

Sublimation

500

Fear of dying 

Thanatophobia

500

frequently examine themselves in the mirror and believe their flaw makes them ugly

Body dysmorphia 

500

*** conflict between 2 opposing forces within an individual ***

Psychodynamic model

500

What is flooding

method for treating phobias rapidly and repeatedly exposes clients to the feared object or situation until anxiety levels diminish

500

A young man with homosexual feelings, which he finds to be threatening, engages in excessive heterosexual activity

Reaction formation