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Mental Health
Anxiety Disorder
Question | Answer |
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Defense mechanisms protect us from being consciously aware of a ____ or ____ which we cannot tolerate. | thought or feeling |
A defense mechanism only allows the ____ thought or feeling to be expressed indirectly in a disguised form. | unconscious |
Defense mechanism - completely reject the thought or feeling | Denile - "I'm not angry with him" |
Defense mechanism - You think someone else has your thought or feeling | Projection - "That professor hates me" or "that student hates that professor" |
Defense mechanism - vaguely aware of the thought or feeling, but try to hide it | Supression - "I'm going to try to be nice to him" |
Defense mechanism - turn the feeling into its opposite | Reaction Formation - "I think he's really great!" |
Defense mechanism - you redirect your feelings to another target | Displacement - "I hate that secretary" |
Defense mechanism - You come up with various explanations to justify the situation (while denying your feelings) | Rationalization - "He's so critical because he's trying to help us do our best" |
Defense mechanism - A type of rationalization (you come up with various explanations to justify the situation (while denying your feelings) only more intellectualized | Intellectualization - "This situation reminds me of how Nietzsche said that anger is ontological despaire." |
Defense mechanism - You try to reverse your feeling by DOING something that indicates the opposite feeling, it may be an apology for the feeling you find unacceptable with yourself | Undoing - "I think I'll give that professor an apple" |
Defense mechanism - You "think" the feeling but don't really feel it. | Isolation of affect - "I guess I'm angry with him, sort of" |
Defense mechanism - You revert to an old, unusally immature behavior to ventilate your feeling. | Regression - "Let's shoot spitballs at people" |
Defense mechanism - you redirect the feeling into a socially productive activity | Sublmination - "I'm going to write a poem about anger." |
Social withdrawal, limited role performance, and financial concerns due to work role inhibitions are all examples of responses to ____. | Anxiety Disorders |
family activities are centered around or ____ by a family member who has an anxiety disorter | controlled |
T/F anxiety disorders can cause disability | True |
Most common health indicator for anxiety | Specific phobia - social phobia is 2nd |
Other helath indicators for anxiety | Post traumatic stress disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and acute stress disorder |
What are the health promotions for anxiety disorder | stress management programs |
Health Protection: Disability laws protect individuals who have ____ anxiety disorders | severely disabling |
Critical Incident Debriefing after a traumatic event (conducted by Red Cross in community tragedies; by schools after crises within a school, on psychiatric units after violence or suicide). Is what level of prevention | Primary prevention |
Stress Management, Time Management, Relaxation Training, Nutritional Planning, etc are examples of what level of prevention | Primary prevention |
Screenings for anxiety disorders may use the Hamilton Rating Scale are an example of what level of prevention | Secondary prevention |
Exposure and Response Prevention, physcopharmacology, and nursing approaches to intervene in various levels of anxiety are examples of what level of prevention | Secondary prevention |
Relapse prevention following behavior therapy programs is an example of what level of prevention | Tertiary prevention |
Family guidance, prevention of suicide, and support for functioning in social roles are all examples of what level of prevention | Tertiary prevention |
an anxiety disorder precipitated by the fear of having a symptom attack or panic attack in a setting from which there is no easy means of escape. | Agoraphobia |
an anxiety disorder that is characterized by excessive, uncontrollable and often irrational worry about everyday things, which is disproportionate to the actual source of worry | Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) |
a psychiatric anxiety disorder most commonly characterized by a subject's obsessive, distressing, intrusive thoughts and related compulsions (tasks or "rituals") which attempt to neutralize the obsessions. | Obsessive-compulsive disorder |
an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to a terrifying event or ordeal in which grave physical harm occurred or was threatened | Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) |
an experience of fear, apprehension or worry regarding social situations and being evaluated by others | Social anxiety |
is the medical term for a psychiatric illness characterized by recurring panic attacks in combination with significant behavioral change or at least a month of ongoing worry about the implications or concern about having other attacks | Panic disorder |
is a controversial psychiatric treatment in which seizures are induced with electricity for therapeutic effect. Today, ECT is most often used as a treatment for severe major depression which has not responded to other treatment. | Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), also known as electroshock, |
After recognizing a client has an anxiety disorder diagnosis, what would be your next step in the process of helping the client, and the family? | educate the client about their illness |
What separates a "normal" anxiety response from the anxiety that leads to an anxiety disorder diagnosis? | level of functional impairment |
The preferred psychological treatment method for managing an anxiety disorder is | behavioral therapy |
Behavioral therapy includes | gradually introducing the client to the avoided stimulus |