Exam 6: Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders

Izzy frequently feels that when he is driving, he accidently hit someone and left the scene of the accident. If Izzy was in treatment with a therapist who was Adlerian, the therapist would view his obsessions as

The main difference in the diagnostic criteria for PTSD and acute stress disorder is:

Social phobia is linked with dropping out of school.

Exposure with response prevention is the "gold standard" treatment for generalized anxiety disorder.

Learning theories offer a good explanation for how phobias develop.

Stanfeld et al. (2008) revealed that the prevalence of social phobia was higher among people who :

Jamie, a 20 year old university student, has had three panic attacks in his life; he most likely has panic disorder.

Implicit and explicit memory tests conducted by University of Toronto researcher McCabe (1999) on high and low anxiety sensitivity scorers have shown:

Anxiety has two components:

Lifetime prevalence of generalized anxiety disorder is:

Repression is a central component of the psychoanalytic conceptualization of anxiety disorders.

A purely cognitive approach as a form of treatment for a specific phobia is viewed negatively because:

Exposure to trauma, such as the shootings at Dawson College, is associated with _______ the risk of developing a diagnosable disorder than is found in the general public.

Sharon, a five-year-old girl, developed the following symptoms after being sexually molested: difficulty sleeping, nightmares, a tendency to be easily startled, and bedwetting. Which of the following would be the most likely diagnosis for Sharon?

Canadian Vietnam veterans, in comparison to American Vietnam veterans were more vulnerable to chronic PTSD because:

Compare the behavioural etiology of specific phobias with that of posttraumatic stress disorder. Outlines how these perspectives are similar, and how they differ.

An individual diagnosed with a social phobia

In a meta-analysis of 33 randomized-controlled trials of the treatment of specific phobias, Wolitzky-Taylor et al. (2008) concluded that exposure-based treatments:

Social phobia is usually first diagnosed in childhood.

Which of the following has been shown useful in treating posttraumatic stress disorder?