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Mental Health Test 2 Anxiety disorders
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Mental Health Test 2: Anxiety disorders - Answer-Mental Health Test 2: Anxiety
disorders

Anxiety - Answer-A vague feeling of dread or apprehension

Fear - Answer-Feeling afraid or threatened by a clearly identifiable external stimulus
that represents danger to the person

Phobia - Answer-- Specific items that elicit fear

Normal Anxiety and Fear - Answer-- Can be motivating when to solve a problem
- Considered to be normal when it is appropriate to the situation and dissipates when
the situation has been resolved

Anxiety fact - Answer-- most common psychiatric diagnosis
- 1 in 4 adults in U.S. affected
- More prevalent in women and people younger than 45
- Part of every day life
- Triggers physiological and behavioral responses aimed at eliminating it

Levels of anxiety - Answer-1. Mild
2. Moderate
3. Severe
4. Panic

Mild - Answer-- often motivates
- a sensation that something is different and warrants special attention

Moderate - Answer-- a disturbing feeling that something is definitely wrong
- nervousness and agitation occur

Severe - Answer-- person feels dread or horror
- cannot concentrate or complete tasks
- restlessness
- vital sign increase

Panic - Answer-- fight, flight or freeze responses
- loss of rational thought
(need to look up the freeze response)

, Cause of anxiety disorder from Freud - Answer-- Anxiety is a defense mechanism
- human's attempt to control awareness of and to reduce, anxiety
- the defense mechanisms are cognitive distortions that a person uses unconsciously to
maintain a sense of control in a stressful situation

Interpersonal approach to anxiety Sullivan - Answer-- Harry Stack Sullivan
- Anxiety is generated from problems in interpersonal relationships
- Anxiety is communicated
ex. if children have a good relationship with their parents, then have normal responses
to anxiety/depression. If child is from bad home with no one to take care of them, often
grow up to be anxious

Interpersonal approach to anxiety Peplau - Answer-- Hildegard Peplau
- Developed communication techniques based on Sullivan's interpersonal view of
anxiety

Behavioral theory to anxiety - Answer-- View that anxiety is learned through
experiences
- People can change or "unlearn" behaviors through new experiences
- first proposed by B. F. Skinner
* this is more of how to treat it and less of what causes it

Genetic & Biological theories of anxiety - Answer-Genetic- studies of families show it
does run in families
Biological - may be due to a dysfunction in NE or serotonin systems

Medical (psychiatric) diagnosis - Answer-- panic disorder without agoraphobia
- panic disorder with agoraphobia
- Agoraphobia without panic attacks
- specific phobias
- social phobia
- OCD
- Posttraumatic stress disorder
- Acute stress disorder (i.e. losing a job)
- Generalized anxiety disorder (doesn't fit in any other category, can be functional or
not, can lead to substance abuse if not treated)

Agoraphobia - Answer-- fear of leaving where you are comfortable
- this is normally the home

Nursing diagnoses - Answer-1. Anxiety
2. Ineffective coping
3. Readiness for enhanced coping
4. Fear

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