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anxiety disorders - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-OCD, social anxiety disorder,
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generalized anxiety disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, panic disorder (with
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or without agoraphobia), agoraphobia without history of panic disorder, specific
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phobias, anxiety disorder due to medical condition
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obsessive compulsive disorder - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-repeated, unwanted,
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intrusive thoughts, images/urges (obsessions) accompanied by repetitive
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behaviors or mental acts (compulsions) in attempts to neutralize anxiety
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social anxiety disorder - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-excessive fear of social or
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performance situations (ex. being judged negatively by others), person recognizes
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the fear is unreasonable
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generalized anxiety disorder - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-at least 6 months chronic,
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uncontrollable, excessive worry about broad number of issues in daily life
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post traumatic stress disorder - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-re experiencing traumatic
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event along with physiological arousal and avoidance of reminders that does not
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resolve within one month
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,acute stress disorder - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-re experiencing traumatic event
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along with physiological arousal and avoidance of reminders, lasts less than a
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month


panic disorder- main features - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-recurrent panic attacks
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that are initially unexpected and excessive fear of future panic attacks
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agoraphobia- main features - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-excessive fear and avoidance
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of situations in which help may be unavailable or escape impossible when
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experiencing anxiety or panic symptoms | | | |




specific phobias- main features - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-excessive fear and
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avoidance of specific situations, objects or things, person recognizes the fear is
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excessive and unreasonable | |




anxiety disorder treatments - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-systematic desensitization
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and interoceptive exposure, exposure and response prevention, relaxation and
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breathing retraining, cognitive therapy, anti anxiety editions, antidepressant
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medications


fear - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-abrupt and aversive central nervous system and
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autonomic nervous system response to real threat or danger; prepares organism
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for immediate action; fight or flight
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anxiety - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-more diffuse response about impending real or
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imagined future threat or danger| | | |

, emotion - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-brief states of fear
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mood - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-pervasive and sustained anxiety
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generalized anxiety disorder- symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-(need 3)
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restlessness or on edge, easily fatigued, difficulty concentrating/mind going blank,
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irritability, muscle tension, sleep disturbance
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panic disorder- symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-(need 4)
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|palpitations/accelerated heart rate, sweating, shaking, shortness of breath, | | | | | | | |


choking feelings, chest pain, nausea, dizziness/lightheaded, feeling detached,
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losing control/going crazy, fear of dying, paresthesias, chills/hot flashes
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post traumatic stress disorder- symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-(need 1)
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recurrent intrusive distressing recollections of event, dreams, reexperiencing
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event, intense psychological stress at exposure cues that resemble the trauma,
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physiological reactivity on exposure to cues that resemble aspect of traumatic
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event


post traumatic stress disorder- avoidance/numbing - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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(need 3) avoiding thoughts/feelings/convos associated with trauma, avoiding
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things to arouse memories of trauma, inability to recall important aspect of
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trauma, diminished interest in activities, detachment, restricted range of feelings,
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sense of foreshortened future
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post traumatic stress disorder- arousal - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-(need 2) difficulty
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sleeping, irritability/angry outbursts, difficulty concentrating, hyper vigilance,
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exaggerated startle response | |

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