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Why do anxiety problems go untreated?
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Hard to distinguish between normal, adaptive anxiety, and maladaptive anxiety.
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What is agoraphobia?
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Fear of public places or being trapped.
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What are the most common anxiety disorders?
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Separation anxiety and specific phobia (4 to 10%)
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What is the prevalence rate of OCD?
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2 to 3%
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What is the defect in Chediak-Higashi syndrome?
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Defective microtubule polymerizaion (decreased phagocytosis).
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recurrent pyogenic infections
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Developmental fears occur about the same age cross culturally, true or false?
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True
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What is the age of onset for SAD?
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7 to 8
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What is the age of onset for OCD
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9 to 12 (although some younger, around 6)
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What is the age of onset for GAD
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10 to 14
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What is the age of onset for social phobia and panic disorder?
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Adolescence
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What did the longitudinal study in New Zealand find about anxiety and comorbidity?
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As number of anxiety disorders increase, comorbidity with depression and substance abuse increases, and less likely to go to university
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OCD left unchecked will resolve itself, true or false?
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False
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Depression left untreated will usually go away, but will relapse. True or false?
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True
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What is heterotypic continuity?
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Having one type of problem predicts another (i.e. anxiety disorders predict depression, substance abuse)
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Panic disorder has the lowest remission rate. True or false?
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True
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What disorder has the highest rate of comorbidity with anxiety?
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Depression
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Is avoidant behaviour a positive or negative reinforcement?
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It is removing an aversive stimulus, so it is a negative reinforcement.
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What is the maintenance model of OCD?
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Obsessive thought, appraisal, fear/disgust reaction, neutralization, reduce distress
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What were the results of the Waters et al. study?
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Anxious children showed an attentional bias for emotional faces (did not matter which emotion)
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How do parents contribute to anxiety?
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Modeling and low expectations
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What were the results of the Barrett et al. study?
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After talking with their parents, anxious kids offered more avoidant solutions, while ODD kids offered more aggressive solutions.
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CBT approaches are typically recommended first for children suffering from anxiety. True or false?
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True
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What is the main problem with prescribing medication for anxiety disorders?
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Medication only treats the symptoms, not the root causes of the disorder. Between 20 to 90% of people with panic disorder will relapse when they stop taking medication.
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What are the core features of anxiety?
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Focus on threat or danger, future oriented, anxious apprehension, strong negative emotion or tension, cognitive shifts, and behavioural patterns
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What was the outcome of the POTS study (Pediatric OCD Treatment Study)?
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CBT was much more effective at Penn than Duke, and medication was much more effective at Duke than Penn.
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