Flashcards ready when you areYou have opened several Quizlet sets recently. Loading this one only when needed helps prevent a temporary Quizlet limit.
| ANXIETY DISORDERS | |
| Generalized anxiety disorder | Patient will present as → a 35-year-old female with a complaint of worry which she cannot control for the last year. She tells you that her symptoms daily consisting of sleep disturbances, difficulty concentrating, and irritability. She reports her symptoms started around age 17 but have worsened. Excessive anxiety and worry occurring more days than not for at least 6 months, about a number of events or activities (such as work or school performance)
Treatments:
|
| Panic disorder | Patient will present as → a 26-year-old first-year PA student with a medical history significant for GERD comes to your office because of frequent episodes of palpitations. The palpitations are sudden in onset and are accompanied by sweating and a sense that she is going to “pass out.” The episodes typically last no more than 10 minutes, and although the patient feels as if she may pass out, she never has. The episodes first appeared when she started PA school and have increased in frequency to the point where she is afraid to attend lectures out of fear of having an “attack.” An occurrence of three panic attack (sudden unexpected periods of intense fear or discomfort) episodes in three weeks
Treatments:
|
| Phobic disorders | Specific phobia (see below)
Social phobia (social anxiety disorder)
|
| Specific phobias | Patient case presentation → a lab technician calls to tell you that a 22-year-old man you have sent for a blood draw is very anxious. He says he is terrified of having his blood drawn and almost faints at the sight of the needle. Excessive and persistent fear of a specific object, situation or activity that is generally not harmful.
Treat with exposure therapy (first line), teach to relax and try to understand/overcome the fear
|
| TRAUMA- AND STRESS-RELATED DISORDERS | |
| Post-traumatic stress disorder | The patient has experienced a traumatic event which causes an acute stress reaction. Once the symptoms persist past 1 month it is now considered post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Treatment:
|
| Adjustment disorders | The disproportionate response to a stressor that would normally be expected (ex. job loss, physical illness) which begin within 3 months of the stressor and end within 6 months after stressor resolved
Stressors:
Treatment is psychotherapy |