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-Anxiety impacts approximately 18% of the adult population and 25%
of children ages 13-17 each year
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) - CORRECT DETAILED ANSWER
characterized by persistent, uncontrollable thoughts or actions that
occur over an hour or more per day
-one of the top 20 illness-related disabilities worldwide
first line medication treatment: Generalized anxiety disorder
- CORRECT DETAILED ANSWER--SSRIs
-SNRIs
-Buspirone
-Drug Therapy at least 12 months
first line medication treatment: Panic disorder - CORRECT
,DETAILED ANSWER--Paroxetine
-Sertraline
-Fluoxetine
-Drug therapy 6-9 months
Rationale: Callie has persistent symptoms of anxiety accompanied by
restlessness and irritability. The thoughts are unrealistic since she
has pre-determined that she is not good enough for the law program
without evidence to support that feeling. She also compares herself to
strangers where she automatically assumes that they are better
prepared for the program than she is. She decides not to apply to the
law program based on these unsubstantiated thoughts.
Jeremy is a 44-year-old male who works as a department head for a
local grocery store chain that is down-sizing due to economic
reasons. Top level management has announced that there will be
restructuring of the company where many of the employees are no
longer deemed essential. Because of the automatic self-check-out
systems, there is no longer the need to employ as many cashiers as
possible. Jeremy has been given the task of notifying his employees
of this major change in staffing. He plans to share these decisions at
next week's staff meeting. From the moment Jeremy received this
directive, he started to feel fearful of the possibility of announcing the
decision to downsize as well as deciding on who would be eliminated.
On the day of the staff meeting, his employees were present. As he
started the staff meeting, he began to feel nausea. He even noticed his
, heart pounding. When he was questioned by an employee on -
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWER-panic attack
Rationale: Jeremy's anxiety is associated with a stressful situation
(delivering the bad news) and a fear that something bad will happen
(staff's reaction to the announcement). He experiences physical
symptoms of heart pounding, nausea, dizziness, and inability to
formulate an organized answer to the question. The setting is also in a
familiar place among colleagues where no real threat exists.
Sari is a 34-year-old female who is engaged to be married in one
month. This will be her second marriage. She has been divorced for
three years. Her fiancé, who is also divorced, has arranged for Sari to
meet his three teenagers. Sari learns through a mutual friend of hers
and the fiancé, that his teenagers, although hesitant, are willing to
meet her. On the day of the arranged meeting, Sari is asked to arrive
to the restaurant to meet the teens prior to the fiancé's arrival
because he has been held up at a meeting. Sari agrees but starts to
feel uneasy about it. She is concerned that they will not accept her
because of her previous divorce and the fact that she is not their
mother although they were willing to meet her. The closer she got to
the restaurant, the more uneasy she felt to the point of disorientation.
Just before entering the restaurant, she turned around and called her
fiancé to inform him that her car - CORRECT DETAILED ANSWER-
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