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35 Cards in this Set
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The emotional response to a stressor is what?
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Anxiety, It is a good thing
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Excessive worry or anxiety lingers for more than 6 months can be described as what?
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General Anxiety Disorder
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Apprehension that is associated with uncertainty and helplessness is what?
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Anxiety
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What is the feeling of dread R/T an identifiable source the pt is able to validate?
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Fear, It comes by an event or happening
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What is a Polysymptomatic disorder?
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Hysteria
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A little girl developes hysterical blindness after seeing her mother killed is an example of what?
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Hysteria
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A psychiatric disturbance that has excessive anxiety & or depression, also interfering with routine function, but no loss of contact with reality is what?
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Neurosis
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Unrealistic preoccupation with fear of having a serious illness is what?
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Hypochondriases
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Someone who ignores symptoms, some denial, an ex: a women with a metastic tumor on her breast is an ex of what?
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La Belle Indifferences
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Fear of being in situations or places from which escape may be difficult is what?
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Agoraphobia
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An unwanted, intrusive, persistent ideas, thoughts impulses, or images is what?
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Obsession
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True anxiety disorders interupt with what?
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Daily functioning
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People who need to have thing in a specific order are considered what?
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Obsessive
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An unwanted repetitive behavior what what?
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Compulsion
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Are men or women more common to have psychiatric illnesses?
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Women
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The Psychoanalytic theory what states anxiety exists bc of unmet agressive needs was the theory of who?
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Freud
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Beck designed a theory that he said had to be learned or conditioned behavior what is this theory?
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Cognitive Theory
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A panic disorder is characterized by what?
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recurrent pain attacks w/o agoraphobia, onset is unpredictable.
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What are the S/S of Panic Disorder w/o agoraphobia
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intense apprehension, fear, terror, feeling of impending doom, and physical discomfort.
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Mrs. J is afraid of flying, tried to fly but wasn't sucessful had to get off the plane and get on a train it took 28 hours compared to 3 to get to new orleans, this is an example of what?
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Panic disorder with Agoraphobia
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Chronic, unrealistic, & excessive anxiety and worry which causes distress or impairment in social, occupational dysfunction is what?
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Generalized Anxiety disorder, GAD, Symptoms must last 6 months or longer.
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What are some S/S of phobias in children
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crying, tantrums, freezing, clinging
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Adults that have phobia have S/S that appear to be what?
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Panic attacks
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Excessive Fear of being in places or situations, fear of being scrutinized by others is an ex of what?
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Social Phobia
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Persistent, excessive or unreasonable fear of a specific object or situation is what?
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Specific Phobia
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What are some S/S of what happens when a person is exposed to a phobic stimulus?
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Feeling of panic, Palpitations, Sweating, Dizziness, Difficulty breathing.
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Obsession is a what?
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Thought
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Compulsion is what?
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A behavior
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The development of characteristic symptoms that follow exposure to a traumatic stressor is called what?
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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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OCD is what?
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
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An unwanted repetitive behavior is what?
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Compulsion
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Counting, praying, repeating words, washing and cleaning, checking, and orderinng are signs to compulsion to do what?
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Reduce anxiety
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xanax the AM family, Buspar Antianxiety, Prozac antidepressant, Inderal Antihypertensive agent, are pharmacological management of what?
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Panic and GAD.
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someone who see a psychologist to get reasoning for condition, helping the pt to get meaning is what?
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Individual psychotherapy, it is a long process
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How a pt responds to stressful situations, reducing anxiety by talking, happens in a breif time is what?
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Cognitive therapy
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