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

The currently used biological treatments for social phobia are:

Despite overall symptom continuity between clinical and subclinical panic sufferers, Cox, Endler, and Swinson (1991) have identified which of the following to be one major qualitative difference between these groups?

Koerner and Dugas (2006) developed a two-factor model of GAD. What are these factors?

Joan was in a car accident six weeks ago. Her car was totaled, but she only had some bumps and bruises. Since then, when she has to drive somewhere, she gets anxious and experiences increased heart rate, sweating, and a sense of impending disaster. The episodes usually last about 10 minutes. She is not experiencing any other symptoms. What is her most likely diagnosis and why? What other diagnoses did you consider?

McEvoy and Daniluk found that Canadian Aboriginal women who experienced multiple forms of trauma typically developed symptoms of:

A study of six anxiety disorders identified in the Virginia Adult Twin Study of Psychiatric and Substance Use concluded that:

In their investigation of specific social phobias, Blote et al. (2009) stated that _____ was qualitatively and quantitatively different from other subtypes.

Diane has always been a worrier - she worries about anything and everything. That type of worry is the foundation of generalized anxiety disorder.

Behaviourism is to avoidance as psychoanalytic is to:

The Anxiety Sensitivity Index

Canadian researcher Jacques Bradwejn and his colleagues have implicated hypersensitivity to the brain peptide cholecystokinin (CCK) in the neurobiology of which of the following anxiety disorders?

Which of the following have been identified as a protective factor in PTSD?

In the treatment of phobias, psychiatric medications

According to North et al. (2009) which category is the most specific category of symptoms for the diagnosis of PTSD?

Most compulsions are viewed as ______________ by the person performing them.

What is the most common element of treatment for anxiety disorders and why is it considered so important for successful treatment?

Adler viewed obsessive-compulsive disorder as due to:

Doug was frightened by a rat coming into his bedroom when he was a child, and he now has a rat phobia. However, despite having been severely shocked by putting her finger in an electric outlet, Martha has no fear of sockets. This inconsistency is explained by the theory of

The first onset of social phobia is usually during:

Panic disorder can be caused by a medical condition (e.g., mitral valve prolapse).