Anxiety Disorders

1. A type of anxiety disorder wherein the individual worries too much, and unable to control this focus on worry, with clinical manifestations such as, uneasiness, fatigue, irritability and restlessness.

• Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

• Panic Disorder

• Phobic Disorder

2. Composed of discrete episodes of attack, that is rapid, intense, escalating anxiety in which the person experiences great emotional fear as well as physiologic discomfort.

• Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• Obsessive-compulsive Disorder

• Panic Disorder

• Phobic Disorder

3. It is an illogical, intense, and persistent fear of a specific object or a social situation that causes extreme distress and interferes with normal functioning.

• Generalized Anxiety disorder

• Obsessive-compulsive disorder

• Panic Disorder

• Phobic Disorder

4. Irrational fear of an object or situation.

• Social Phobia

• Specific Phobia

• Agoraphobia

• Maturational Phobia

5. An anxiety in which certain social or performance situations will be the cause.

• Specific phobia

• Social phobia

• Non-specific phobia

• Agoraphobia

6. These are recurrent, persistent, intrusive, and unwanted thoughts, images, or impulses that caused marked anxiety and interfere with interpersonal, social, and occupational function.

• Obsessions

• Compulsions

• Anxiety

• Fear

7. This is characterized by recurrent attacks of intense apprehension, fear, and terror.

• Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• Panic Disorder

• OCD

• Phobic Disorder

8. The nurse is caring for a client who vigorously follows several rituals daily, including frequent handwashing. The client’s hands are now reddened and sensitive to touch. Which of the following nursing actions would be least helpful initially?

• Provide special care

• Give positive reinforcement for nonritualistic behavior

• Limit the amount of time the client may use to wash hands

• Protect the client from ridicule by other clients on the unit.

9. The most common of all psychiatric disorders, they cause an individual to feel frightened, distressed and uneasy without a specific cause.

• Mood Disorders

• Anxiety Disorder

• Somatoform Disorders

• Personality Disorders

10. The essential feature of this disorder is excessive anxiety and worry occurring more than 50% of the time for at least 6 months; characteristics include restlessness, easy fatigue, difficulty concentrating, irritability, muscle tension, and sleep disturbance.

• Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• Panic Disorder

• OCD

• Phobic Disorder