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Chapter 5
What is a fear? |
perceived danger
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What is Anxiety?
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Imagination runs wild
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What is meant by the term Pygmalian Affect?
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Imagined perception- You are what you believe you are therefore you become it!
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Important question about both anxiety and fear?
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How do these both effect ouy ADL's
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What is a phobia?
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Irrational fear
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Define a panic attack?
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Starts as an episode (10) minutes
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Define a panic disorder?
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chronic, ongoing and can erupt at any time
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What are some of the physical signs of a people having panic attack?
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sweating, increased heart rate, passing out, chills, nausea
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Name health problems that can contribute to these symptoms?
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Hypoglycemic
Hyperthyroid Heart problems COPD |
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In what ways can anxiety attacks be alleviated?
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reduce caffeine
meditation |
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At what age does a level of anxiety usually present itself?
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age 20
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Agraphobia is defined as what?
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intense anxiety of feeling trapped.
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How often is agraphobia more common in women than men?
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X2 more likely
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Women are diagnosed how many more times than men for anxiety disorders?
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X8
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Medication for anxiety does what for a person?
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Rebalances levels of neuroeprenephrine and GABA in the brain.
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Anxiety medications are classified as what?
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Benzo's-Valium, Librium, Xanax
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What is the downfall of using anxiety medications long term?
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Dependancy on drug to cope with life.
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What is a better way to tackle treatment of anxiety disorders?
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ween people off medications along with use of therapist
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Phobia is defines as?
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Irrational fear
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Give examples of Phobias?
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Most common are: animals, thunder, lightning, darkness and blood
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What is Instinctive fear?
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Fear that is genetically programmed
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Carl Jung theory?
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Collective unconscious
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Cognitive style means what/
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How a person thinks out different things in life
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Overactive Alarm System is based on what thinking style?
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change the way you think and you will change your outcome
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Flooding refers to what?
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take a fearful situation and keep reintroducing it until fear is gone
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In regards to Flooding, what does Graduated Exposure consist of?
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flooding down in chunks of time, talked out with therapist while happening and done again some other time.
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What is the goal on Flooding and Graduated Exposure theories?
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Reward each baby step of moving forward of conquering a fear
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What is the number social phobia and second most common?
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1. speaking to the public
2. eating in public |
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What does the left and right side of the brain control?
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left-logic
right-creative |
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G.A.D. stands for what?
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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What does G.A.D. disorder consist of?
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diverse symptoms because doctors are unsure of what causes it or triggers it. Trading one worry for another.
no great success with long term results |
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OCD means what?
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
unwanted and persistent thoughts |
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Compulsion disorder is what?
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based on ritual not a need
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Name 4 different types of compulsions?
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checking
symmetry cleanliness hoarding |
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Note: many people have suffered what childhood illness prior to 6 months of age that may influence having this disorder?
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Strep throat, often mistaken for cholic in babies
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What types of treatments are used for OCD?
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Benzo's or meds known as SSRI
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Define behavioral therapy?
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response is opposite flooding, therapist denies patient from doing behavior that is obsessive by talking him through it.
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Cingulotomy is what type of procedure?
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Drastic measure to reduce OCD behavior. Operation
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What id ASD?
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Acute Stress doisorder
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When does ASD happen?
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soon after traumatic event
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PTSD stand for what?
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
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Define PTSD?
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based on specific experiences with patients have flashbacks and nightmares
war veterans |
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Conversion Disorder refers to what?
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loss of physical ability or function such as going blind as a way to avoid what traumatic experience a person witnessed
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In PTSD, what is Survivor Syndrome?
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Person exposed to traumatic event walks away unharmed but others have been hurt or killed, feels overwhelming guilt
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Name some risk factors for ASD or PTSD?
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certain pre-existing health conditions such as families already have pysch. disorders already present, women more than men
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Two important facts about potentially getting ASD or PTSD?
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rape victims now recognized as potential victims and not everyone will get either of these syndromes
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When a large amount of stress takes place in a body, what hormone gets released?
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Cortisol
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HIgh levels of stress for an extended period of time can do what to the body chemistry?
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alters production of neurotransmitters. receptors become altered as well.
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What does the term Homeostasis mean?
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a person is jacked up all the time
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What are some of the positive factors of stress being in a person's life?
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Better awareness of surroundings
broader experience base to draw from |
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Chapter 6
What does the term Somatoform mean? |
physical complaint with no medical basis
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Somatoform Disorder includes what principles?
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body complaints
individuals have psych problems but will not acknowledge them, therefore expressed in a physical complaint |
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Explain Conversion Disorder?
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high levels of conflict that manifest itself as motor or sensory problem
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Freud renamed Conversion Disorder as what?
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Hysterical neurosis
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Define Sensory Dysfunction?
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things not working in the body as they should with no medical proof of real problem
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What does the phrase "Sick Role" mean?
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a person loves attention they get when they get sick/ NO REWARD for getting better
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Seizures manifest themselves for what reasons?
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many
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What does MIxed Episode Combination refer to?
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several dysfunctions as the same time/rare/ occurs in most people ages 10-35 years old/more common in women
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Somatoform Disorders can occur for what reasons?
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sometimes patients will have underlying health problems/ 50 % of cases eventually have this show up even if initial testing shows no evidence to support complaint
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BDD stands for what?
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Body Dysmorphic Disorder
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What are some of the signs of BDD?
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patients preoccupied with a physical aspect of themselves
40X more likely to commit suicide |
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In BDD, what concerns women most and men?
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Women- breast size and flabby abdomen
men-hair loss |
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Hypochondriasis refers to what type of patient?
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one that has complaints of physical illness with no medically testing to support it
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Malingering refers to?
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deliberately faking symptoms for purpose seeking attention
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Facticious Disorders are seen in people who have a need for what?
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inner need to maintain sick role
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DSM defines Munchausen's Syndrome as?
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chronic cases of person becomes consumed with the pursuit of medical care
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Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy includes what?
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Parent makes child ill to get attention through sick child
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What are some triggers for Somatoform Disorders?
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Post- Partum depression
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Why do people fake illnesses?
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Primary gain: avoid responsibility Secondary Gain; sympathy
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What is the treatment for Hypocodriacs?
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Mange stress
Get to the root of the problem teach coping skills |
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Problem focused treatment for Hypo's consist of what?
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take special courses
work towards gaining skills to succeed |
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Emotion focused treatment for Hypo's consist of what?
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focus therapy on talking it out: How do we react to what just happened and how do I move ahead
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What are important components to wanting to change ones thinking?
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must be open to change and willing to make to move forward in change
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D.I.D. means what?
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Dissociative Disorder
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What two aspects are present in a true dissociative person?
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Host or core personality and alters or others that are present
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Alter personalities are often as result of what trauma?
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childhood abuse
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Name characteristics of DID personalities?
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shift between host and alters
questions to host/alters have distorted sense of time |
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What type of treatment is used for DID cases?
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Hypnotherapy
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What is the largest problem for Forensics who have a perpetrator who has DID?
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alters may blame host for the crime
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Dissociative Amnesia is defined as?
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people who are unable to recall their personal data/ however they may be able to recall data from childhood
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Dissociative Amnesia when a people forget their own environment in a specific accident is referred as?
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Localized DA
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Generalized DA consists of?
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person cannot recall events beofre incident
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Continuous DA is?
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failure to recall events from a particular time up to the event
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DA is not caused by?
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physical trauma
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Dissociative Fugue is?
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person is confused about their identity and unexpectedly takes off and starts new life
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Depersonalization Disorder is?
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distortion of body concepts such as a person can fly/ often seen in drug users
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Continuous DA is?
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failure to recall events from a particular time up to the event
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DA is not caused by?
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physical trauma
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Dissociative Fugue is?
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person is confused about their identity and unexpectedly takes off and starts new life
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Depersonalization Disorder is?
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distortion of body concepts such as a person can fly/ often seen in drug users
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