Course Description : Anxiety Disorders is a course is based on a publication of the National Institute of Mental Health about anxiety disorders. It is written in simple terms and reviews symptoms, etiology, effective treatments, and ways in which a client can make their therapy and doctor's visits more productive. Specifically, this publication discusses panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, social phobias, specific phobias, and generalized anxiety disorder. Although each disorder has features that are unique, there are common elements in all of them such as excessive and irrational fear. This publication is an excellent primer for mental health professionals and provides the practitioner with a great deal of much needed information.
Psychologists, social workers, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists and certified addiction professionals who work with dual diagnosis clients can benefit from this course. This course may also be helpful for other practitioners, such as midwives and dieticians and nutritionists who may work in team or multidisciplinary environments. This course is designed mainly for clinicians and direct service providers. It is targeted for beginning and intermediate practitioners.
Author: The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Learning Objectives: This course will provide a professional with a review of anxiety disorders in general as well as details about specific anxiety disorders. Specifically, a professional will:
Demonstrate knowledge about the symptoms and etiology of anxiety disorders.
Distinguish between methods of effective treatments for anxiety disorders.
Demonstrate knowledge of therapeutic techniques to teach clients so that the clients can increase their success in treatment.
Credits: 2
Exam Fee: $21.00
Format: Online
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Exam Questions for Anxiety Disorders
1. Anxiety disorders effect approximately __________ million adult Americans. 12 14 16 19 2. People with panic disorder have feelings of terror that strike . . . . suddenly and repeatedly with no warning suddenly and predictably slowly and predictably slowly with a gradual building of intensity 3. Panic disorder has been found to . . . occur twice as often in women as in men usually begin in late adolescence or early adulthood have no genetic component A and B only 4. Disturbing thoughts or images are __________ and rituals that are performed to prevent or get rid of them are __________. compulsions; obsessions obsessions; compulsions obsessions; rituals compulsions; rituals 5. Obsessive compulsive disorder may also be accompanied by . . . depression substance abuse other anxiety disorders all of the above 6. Post traumatic stress disorder is . . . more common in women than in men more common in men than in women equally common in men and women always inherited 7. Physical symptoms often accompany social phobia and can include all of the following EXCEPT: blushing profuse sweating difficulty swallowing trembling 8. Specific phobias are characterized by __________ fears. extreme fears irrational fears extreme and irrational intense but realistic 9. Physical symptoms that often accompany GAD include . . . sweating and trembling fatigue and headaches feeling lightheaded or being out of breath all of the above 10. Studies have shown that the ___________ is smaller in people who have undergone severe stress such as childhood abuse or military combat. amygdale hippocampus basal ganglia striatum 11. In the treatment of specific phobias, __________ has been found to be effective. only psychotherapy only medication medication and psychotherapy medication and desensitization 12. Of the antidepressants used to treat anxiety disorders, special care and dietary restrictions are very important with __________ SSRIs tricyclics MAOIs all antidepressants 13. To be effective, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) must be directed at the person conducted by a licensed mental health professional specialized to the specific anxiety disorder repeated over a period of a few weeks to months 14. Co-existing disorders that are common with anxiety disorders include depression eating disorders drug abuse all of the above 15. According to this publication, strategies that will make treatment more effective include all of the following EXCEPT: joining a self help group support of family modest amounts of caffeine internet chat room
Anxiety Disorders
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