Separation Anxiety Disorder Symptoms

Children with Selective Mutism who were given SSRIs have shown improvements in their communication and ______

Non-medication based treatment focuses on therapeutic approaches including psychotherapeutic, psychodynamic, behavioral, and ______ therapies

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) diagnostic criteria require excessive anxiety and worry occurring more days than not for at least ______ months

An individual with GAD may find it difficult to control the ______

Anxiety and worry in GAD are associated with 3 (or more) of the following 6 symptoms, including restlessness, feeling keyed up, or on ______

Failure to speak in Selective Mutism is not attributable to a lack of knowledge of, or comfort with, the spoken ______ required in the social situation

Developmentally inappropriate and excessive fear or anxiety concerning separation from those to whom the individual is attached, as evidence by at least 3 of the ff: 1.Recurrent excessive distress when anticipating or experiencing separation from home or from major attachment figures 2.Persistent and excessive worry about losing major attachment figures or about possible harm to them, such as illness, injury, disasters, or death 3.Persistent and excessive worry about experiencing an untoward event (e.g., getting lost, being kidnapped, having an accident, becoming ill) that causes separation from a major attachment figure 4.Persistent reluctance or refusal to go out, away from home, to school, to work, or elsewhere because of fear of separation 5.Persistent and excessive fear or reluctance about being alone or without major attachment figures at home or in other settings 6.Persistent reluctance or refusal to sleep away from home or to go to sleep without being near a major attachment figure 7.Repeated nightmares involving the theme of separation 8.Repeated complaints of physical symptoms (e.g., headaches, stomachaches, nausea, vomiting) when separation from major attachment figures occurs or is anticipated.B.Fear, anxiety, or avoidance is persistent, lasting at least 4 weeks in children and adolescents and typically 6 months or more in adults C. The description above is indicative of ___________ disorder.

Recurrent excessive distress when anticipating or experiencing _______ from home or from major attachment figures.

Persistent and excessive worry about losing major attachment figures or about possible harm to them, such as illness, injury, disasters, or _______.

Persistent reluctance or refusal to go out, away from home, to school, to work, or elsewhere because of fear of ________.

Persistent and excessive fear or reluctance about being alone or without major attachment figures at home or in other ________.

Repeated complaints of physical symptoms (e.g., headaches, stomachaches, nausea, vomiting) when separation from major attachment figures occurs or is anticipated are indicative of _________ anxiety.

Client-centered therapy is encouraged to help patients accept themselves ________

CBT is an example of one type of psychotherapy that can help people with ________ disorders

In the case of panic disorder or social anxiety disorder, benzodiazepines are usually second-line ________

CBT and exposure therapy are the two most commonly used interventions in the treatment of anxiety ________

Exposure therapy – patients make contact with the feared stimuli and which is maintained until the anxiety associated with the contact ________

Disorders grouped together because they share: repetitiveness, problems with behavioral inhibition and comorbidity, tension reported before or while attempting to resist the impulse, pleasure / relief when giving in to it DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA: ________

Recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, or images that are experienced at some time during the disturbance, as intrusive and unwanted, and that in most individuals cause marked anxiety or distress are known as ______

Individual attempts to ignore or suppress such thoughts, urges, or images, or to neutralize them with some other thought or action (i.e., by performing a ______)

Repetitive behaviors or mental acts that the individual feels driven to perform in response to an obsession or according to rules that must be applied rigidly are known as ______

Behaviors or mental acts aimed at preventing or reducing anxiety or distress, or preventing some dreaded event or situation; however, these behaviors or mental acts are not connected in a realistic way with what they are designed to neutralize or prevent, or are clearly excessive are considered ______

Obsessions or compulsions are time-consuming or cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning, meeting the criteria for ______

Obsessive-compulsive symptoms are not attributable to the physiological effects of a substance or another medical condition, ensuring the diagnosis of ______

People with BDD have ideas of ______

Excessive grooming and skin picking are ______

HOARDING DISORDER 3 characteristics: ❖ Acquisition of things ❖ Difficulty discarding anything ❖ Living with excessive ______

DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA: TRICHOTILLOMANIA (Hair Pulling Disorder) CODE: F63.3 A.Recurrent pulling out of one’s hair, resulting in hair ______

DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA: EXCORIATION (Skin-picking Disorder) A.Recurrent skin picking resulting in skin ______

Repeated attempts to decrease or stop hair pulling: B.Repeated attempts to decrease or stop ______