This disorder usually presents after specific events, such as military combat, sexual/physical assualt, and natural disasters.
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
100
This disorder is associated with excessive and often irrational worry.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?
100
This disorder is characterized by feeling as though your surroundings are unreal.
What is Derealization?
100
Jane woke up one morning and found she could not lift her left arm. After hours of testing, doctors still can find no basis for this neurological symptom. Jane may be experiencing ___
What is Conversion Disorder?
100
This disorder is characterized by pulling out hair.
What is Trichotillomania?
200
This disorder, and the associated isolation, is perpetuated by a marked fear of "losing control" in public places.
What is Agoraphobia?
200
This disorder is characterized by feeling as though you are watching yourself "from the outside" - indirectly experiencing your own life.
What is Depersonalization?
200
This disorder involves the individual deceiving others by appearing to be or purposely becoming sick - Munchausen syndrome by proxy is an example.
What is factitious disorder?
200
Many people with Body Dysmorphic Disorder seem to respond well to these medications.
What are SSRIs?
300
This treatment for PTSD uses technology inspired by video games and has yielded positive results.
What is Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy?
300
Researchers at the University of Iowa found evidence that panic attacks may be associated with increased/decreased ___ & ___.
What are pH & CO2?
300
This disorder is characterized by the presence of "multiples".
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
300
This disorder is characterized by the interpretation of normal bodily sensations as being a sign of serious illness.
What is Illness Anxiety Disorder?
300
This therapy for OCD involves exposing the patient to triggering situations and then preventing them from acting on their compulsions.
What is Exposure and Response Prevention?
400
This disorder shares many of the characteristics of PTSD, but last more a much shorter duration.
What is Acute Stress Disorder?
400
This therapy commonly used to treat anxiety disorders uses a combination of "any and all methods" that will help an individual overcome their disorder.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
400
This disorder occurs when a person "blocks out" information related to some traumatic event.
What is Dissociative Amnesia?
400
Focusing on enjoyable aspects of life and what someone can do, rather than on the limitations caused by the symptoms, is an effective psychological treatment for what disorder?
What is Somatic Symptom Disorder?
400
The fearful thoughts or pictures associated with OCD are called ___; the actions taken to relieve anxiety are called ___.
What are obsessions;compulsions?
500
This type of exposure is preferable to "in vivo" when dealing with PTSD patients.
What is imaginal exposure?
500
Someone with this disorder may say: "In between attacks there is this dread and anxiety that it's going to happen again. It can be very debilitating, trying to escape those feelings of panic."
What is Panic Disorder?
500
Feeling that reality is not reality = _____; Feeling that you are not experiencing reality directly = _____
What are derealization;depersonalization?
500
All states require that clinicians report this disorder to authorities.
What is Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy?
500
Skin picking associated with _____ is meant to correct a perceived defect; skin picking associated with _____ is meant to relieve anxiety.