OCD + Related Disorders I
Persistent and recurrent intrusive thoughts, images, or impulses are experienced as disturbing, inappropriate, and uncontrollable are known as what?
Which are the most commonly performed rituals in OCD?
Checking and cleaning rituals
True or false: OCD has only been theorized as being caused by biological factors.
True
This perspective theorizes that specific phobias develop in response to a pairing between a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus that causes a fear response.
The behavioral perspective
This symptom involves performing overt repetitive behaviors as lengthy rituals (such as hand washing, checking, putting things in order over and over again).
Compulsions
This disorder has as its primary symptom the urge to pull out one’s hair from anywhere on the body (most often the scalp, eyebrows, or arms), resulting in noticeable hair loss.
Trichotillomania
What is a common theme among people with OCD whose obsessions and compulsions manifest in different forms?
An overwhelming fear that something terrible will happen to the person or to others, for which they will be responsible.
Approximately THIS percentage of the population meets the diagnostic criteria for social anxiety at some point in their lives.
12%
True or false... OCD tends to begin in adolescence or early adulthood but is not uncommon in children.
True
People with this disorder both acquire and fail to discard many possessions that seem useless or of very limited value, in part because of the emotional attachment they develop to their possessions.
Hoarding Disorder
Why is it not helpful for those trying to eliminate obsessions to try to stop thinking about them?
Attempting not to think about something may lead to thinking about it more.
There are two types of this eating disorder: 1) Restrictive type 2) Binge eating / purging type
Anorexia Nervosa
Thought-action fusion is...
The belief that thinking about something is as bad as actually doing it
This disorder is features an obsession with a perceived or imagined flaw or flaws in their appearance to the point they firmly believe they are disfigured or ugly.
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Research shows that in OCD, abnormalities in functioning occur in this subcortical region of the brain...
The basal ganglia
This disorder involves a sad or dark mood most of the day, on most days, for two years or more.
Persistent depressive disorder
Why is OCD no longer considered an anxiety disorder?
Anxiety is not generally used as an indicator of OCD severity
The most effective treatment for OCD is a behavioral treatment called...
Exposure and response prevention
The fact that dirt and contamination were threats to our ancestors suggests that...
Preparedness theory may help explain obsessive-compulsive disorder, and it may have evolutionary roots.
An enormous body of literature has shown that the most effective treatment for specific phobias is...
Exposure therapy