Questions and CORRECT Answers
Levels of Anxiety: - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Mild
Moderate
Severe
Pain
Levels of Anxiety: Mild - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Patient's focus is flexible with slight
discomfort and restlessness
Levels of Anxiety: Moderate - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Patient's voice tremors and
shakiness- still able to solve problems but not at optimal level
Level of Anxiety: Severe - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Patient has feelings of dread can make
problem solving impossible
Levels of Anxiety: Panic - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Patient is immobile and unable to
attend the environment. Has unintelligible communication as well as could have
hallucinations.
Agoraphobia - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔An excessive fear or anxiety about being in a
place from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing such as driving on an interstate.
Dissociative Identity Disorder - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A dissociative disorder in which
two or more distinct personality states recurrently take control of behavior.
Dissociative Psychogenic fugue - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A condition in which an
individual goes away and takes on a new identity.
Dissociative psychogenic amnesia - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Where an individual has the
inability to recall important personal information
, Depersonalization - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔When an individual doesn't feel like
themselves or a certain body part like a hand.
Hypochondriasis - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Now known as illness anxiety disorder
Results in misinterpretations of physical sensations as evidence of a serious illness. Can be
quite obsessive as thoughts about illness may be intrusive. People experience extreme worry
and fear about possibility of having disease. Even normal bodily changes such as change of
heart rate or abdominal cramps may be seen as red flags for serious illness
Conversion Disorder - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Manifests itself as neurological symptoms
that is marked by the presence of of deficits in voluntary motor including paralysis, blindness,
numbness
Body Dysmorphic Disorder - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Patients with this disorder are
commonly seen in cosmetic surgery and dermatological settings. Their preoccupation with an
imagined defective body part results in obsessional thinking and compulsive behavior such as
mirror checking and camouflaging.
Hoarding - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A new disorder in the DSM V
Extremely distressing to get rid of items.
The accumulation of of belongings that may have little or no value is an obsession that
prevents some people from leading normal lives. Unsafe and unsanitary conditions could
occur
Trichotillomania - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Hair-pulling disorder
Trichophagia - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Secretly swallowing hair disorder
Dermotillomania - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Skin-picking disorder
Flooding - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔This method exposes patient to large amount of an
undesirable stimulus in an effort to extinguish the anxiety response. "An obsessive patient
who usually touches objects with paper towel may be forced to touch objects with a bare
hand for 1 hour. By the end of the period, the anxiety level is lower."