Anxiety — Flashcards

Flashcard 81: Which ego defense is defined as regulating situations and events of external environment to relieve anxiety? _____

Answer: Controlling (immature defense)

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Flashcard 82: Tourette's syndrome is associated with _____ and _____

Answer: ADHD

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Flashcard 83: What is the likely etiology of erectile dysfunction in a middle-age man that complains of difficulty attaining/maintaining an erection during sexual activity for 6 months? He continues to have normal early-morning penile erections. _____

Answer: Psychogenic

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Flashcard 84: _____ is a complex method of psychotherapy that integrates therapy with eye movements

Answer: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing treatment

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Flashcard 85: What is the treatment for a panic attack in a patient with a history of asthma? _____

Answer: Benzodiazepines

Flashcard 86: Chronic anxiety = _____ Acute anxiety = _____

Answer: GAD

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Flashcard 87: Between malingering, factitious, and somatic symptom disorders; in which disease are symptoms unconscious, motivation unconscious?_____

Answer: Somatic symptom disorders

Flashcard 88: _____ disorder is a loss of sensory or motor function (e.g. paralysis, blindness, mutism), often following an acute stressor

Answer: Conversion

Flashcard 89: Sexual dysfunction includes sexual _____ disorders, such as dyspareunia and vaginismus

Answer: pain

Flashcard 90: Patients with conversion disorder are often aware but indifferent towards their symptoms (e.g. blindness, mutism); known as '_____''

Answer: la belle indifference