Describe the symptoms, causes, and treatment of panic disorder and the three categories of panic ...

Describe the symptoms, causes, and treatment of panic disorder and the three categories of panic attack.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Why is anxiety termed a future-oriented mood state and fear an alarm reaction to actual present danger? Discuss biological and psychological similarities and differences between these emotional events. Explore the idea that fear is panic that occurs in an inappropriate setting.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 3

Which type of compulsion has the highest prevalence rate?
 
  a. Symmetry
 b. Cleaning and contamination
 c. Hoarding
 d. Forbidden thoughts or actions

Question 4

As a last resort, both a psychiatrist and a neurosurgeon have suggested to Ms. Z that a psychosurgical procedure called a cingulotomy might relieve her severe OCD symptoms. Ms. Z asks what the success rate has been for this operation. She is told that approximately ________ percent of patients benefited substantially.
 
  a. 3
 b. 13
  c. 30
  d. 53

Question 5

Mr. J suffers from a severe case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. His symptoms have not responded to either medication or psychological therapies. As a last resort, his therapist suggests the possibility of a psychosurgical procedure, specifically an operation called
 
  a. lobotomy.
 b. lobectomy.
 c. cingulotomy.
 d. cingulectomy.

Question 6

According the textbook, treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder have included all of the following EXCEPT
 
  a. medication.
 b. exposure and response prevention.
  c. psychosurgery.
 d. Electro-shock therapy.

Question 7

Research studies have shown that combining exposure and response prevention with medication when treating patients with OCD
 
  a. is better than drug treatment alone.
 b. is better than exposure and response prevention alone.
  c. causes patients to discontinue treatment.
 d. does not produce any additional therapeutic advantage.

Question 8

Research studies have shown that the therapeutic benefits of medication for OCD
 
  a. are permanent.
 b. are reduced when the medication is discontinued.
  c. continue even when the drug is discontinued.
 d. are no more effective than a placebo.