Videbeck Pre Lecture Quiz

Videbeck Prelecture Quiz

Chapter 13

True/False

1. Mild anxiety can be productive and does not require direct intervention.

2. An individual experiencing panic attacks can also experience depersonalization, which is the sense that things are not real.

3. Obsessions are ritualistic or repetitive behaviors or mental acts that a person carries out continuously in an attempt to neutralize anxiety.

4. Anxiety and fear both refer to the same feeling of being afraid or threatened by an external stimulus.

5. Positive reframing involves turning negative messages into positive messages.

Fill-in-the-Blank

1. In the ______phase of Selye’s general adaptation syndrome, the body has responded negatively to anxiety and stress and is depleted physically and emotionally.

2. ______mechanisms are cognitive distortions that a person uses unconsciously to maintain a sense of control of a situation, and to deal with the stress.

3. A(n) ______is an illogical intense persistent fear of a specific object or a social situation that causes extreme distress and interferes with normal functioning.

4. ______is a treatment used for obsessive-compulsive disorder in which the client is assisted in deliberately confronting the situation and stimuli that the individual usually avoids.

5. ______are automatic, unconscious mannerisms that a person with panic disorder may exhibit.