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ANXIETY AND FEAR
ANXIETY DISORDERS
MEDICINE
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The feeling of terror in response to someone or something specific that a person perceives as dangerous or threatening.
What is Fear pg 1164
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Muscle tone increases. Heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing slightly increase. Perspiration is noticeable. Are all physical manifestations of what?
What is Mild level of Anxiety pg 1165 in the box
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An abrupt onset of physical symptoms and terror that include intense apprehension; tachycardia, palpitations, chest pain, smothering or choking sensations; hyperventilation; light-headedness; feeling of impending doom; and fear of fainting, dying, losing control, or going insane.
What is Panic disorder page 1167
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Drugs that relieve the symptoms of anxiety.
What is Anxiolytics page 1170
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Ring of neural structures is buried within the cerebrum.
What is The limbic system page 1168
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A vague, uneasy feeling, the cause of which is not readily identifiable. It is evoked when a person anticipates nonspecific danger.
What is Anxiety pg 1164
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Name two reasons why a person’s level of anxiety escalates.
What is 1.Physiologic changes occur, such as elevation of blood pressure and racing heart. 2.Perception of information and events narrows. 3.Thinking becomes increasingly disorganized and distorted. 4.Physical and emotional fatigue develops from the invest-ment of energy in worrying. Pg 1164
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A fear of situations in which they must perform in front of or may capture the attention of others.
What is Social Phobia page 1167
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Decrease the sympathetic outflow from the CNS and inhibit sympathetic nervous system effects.
What is Central-Acting Sympatholytics page 1170
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Neuroendocrine pathways involving the hypothalamus, pituitary, and adrenal glands.
What is HPA axis page 1168
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When a person re-experiences the precipitating event.
What is Flashback pg 1167
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Building _____ is especially critical to developing a therapeutic relationship with an anxious client.
What is Trust page 1164
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Chronic worrying on a daily basis for 6 or more months.
What is Generalized anxiety disorder page 1166
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Exact mechanism unknown but does bind with serotonin and dopamine receptors.
What is Non-benzodiazepine Anxiolytics page 1170
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Speech is incoherent. Movements are haphazard, usually in an effort to escape. Symptoms include dyspnea, fainting, tremors, and diaphoresis. Are physical manifestations of what.
What is Panic level of anxiety page 1165
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A type of psychotherapy in which the therapist helps clients alter their irrational thinking, correct their faulty belief systems, and replace negative self-state-ments with positive ones.
What is Cognitive therapy pg 1172
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Hyperventilation, dizziness, tachycardia, heart palpitations, and hypertension. Fine motor movement is impaired with limited communication. These are physical manifestations of what.
What is Severe level of Anxiety pg 1165
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A condition that involves a delayed anxiety response 3 or more months after an emotionally traumatic experience.
What is Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) page 1167
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Decrease the effects of the sympathetic nervous system by reducing CNS sympathetic outflow and blocking beta- adrenergic receptors.
What is Beta-Adrenergic Blockers page 1170
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Anxiety disorders sometimes lead to other __________ conditions such as depression, substance abuse, and binge eating disorder and compulsive overeating.
What is psychobiologic page 1166
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Attempts to extinguish undesirable responses by learning other adaptive techniques.
What is Behavioral therapy pg 1172
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Anxiety impairs ________-________ ability, and clients may look to the nurse for advice in decision making.
What is Problem-Solving pg 1165
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Manifested by the performance of an anxiety-relieving ritual to terminate a disturbing, persistent thought.
What is Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) page 1167
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Exact mechanism of action not under-stood but is thought to increase the inhibitory effects of GABA, making the cells less responsive to norepinephrine.
What is Benzodiazepines page 1170
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Because an anxious client’s attention and concentration are limited, ________ or ________ must be simple, brief, and repeated frequently.
What is directions, explanations. Page 1165