Stress & Anxiety
This beneficial type of stress can motivate a student to prepare for an examination.
What is eustress?
A grieving person finds comfort and purpose by volunteering to help others experiencing loss.
What is altruism?
During this re-experiencing symptom, a trauma survivor feels as though the traumatic event is happening again.
What is a flashback?
Intrusive thoughts about contamination lead to repeated handwashing that briefly reduces anxiety.
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)?
For a patient experiencing severe anxiety, the nurse reduces noise, crowds, and unnecessary activity. This describes this environmental intervention.
What is minimizing environmental stimulation?
This branch of the nervous system activates the rapid fight, flight, or freeze response.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
After being criticized by a supervisor, an employee goes home and yells at a family member over a minor issue.
What is displacement?
A trauma survivor refuses to visit locations or discuss topics that remind them of the event. This is the PTSD symptom category.
What is avoidance?
A patient has persistent fears of serious illness despite reassurance and has minimal or no physical symptoms.
What is illness anxiety disorder?
During severe anxiety, the nurse uses this communication style rather than lengthy explanations.
What are short, simple statements spoken slowly and calmly?
A patient has a narrowing perceptual field and difficulty concentrating but can follow directions with guidance. This is the anxiety level.
What is moderate anxiety?
A person channels strong aggressive impulses into disciplined athletic training.
What is sublimation?
“I feel like I’m outside my body, watching myself.” This describes this dissociative experience.
What is depersonalization?
Distressing physical symptoms are accompanied by excessive health-related thoughts, anxiety, or behaviors that interfere with daily life. The symptoms are not intentionally produced.
What is somatic symptom disorder?
During a flashback, the nurse helps a patient notice their feet on the floor and identify objects in the room. This technique reconnects the patient with the present.
What is grounding?
The adrenal cortex releases this hormone during activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis.
What is cortisol?
A student consciously decides to set aside an upsetting concern until after completing clinical.
What is suppression?
A patient cannot recall important autobiographical information related to trauma, beyond ordinary forgetfulness. This describes this disorder.
What is dissociative amnesia?
A person deliberately falsifies illness to present themselves as sick, without an obvious external reward.
What is factitious disorder imposed on self?
This non-habit-forming medication used for GAD takes several weeks to work and does not provide immediate relief during a panic attack.
What is buspirone?
Excessive, difficult-to-control worry about multiple aspects of life on most days for at least six months suggests this disorder.
What is generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)?
A patient describes one nurse as “completely wonderful” and another as “completely terrible,” with no ability to recognize positive and negative qualities in either.
What is splitting?
To meet PTSD’s duration criterion, the symptom disturbance must persist longer than this period.
What is one month?
A person deliberately fabricates symptoms to obtain money or avoid a legal obligation. This behavior is not itself a psychiatric diagnosis.
What is malingering?
This OCD treatment involves planned exposure to feared situations while helping the patient resist the usual ritual.
What is exposure and response prevention (ERP)?