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Exam 2 Abnormal Psychology Review Guide Section 5 Anxiety, OCD, and…
Exam 2 Abnormal Psychology Review Guide
Section 5 Anxiety, OCD, and Related Disorders
What is the most common class of disorders?
What are the major anxiety related disorders discussed in this chapter?
Define agoraphobia, where does this word come from?
Be able to diagnose and tell the difference between these different disorders: phobias, generalized anxiety, social
anxiety, panic disorder
Be able to identify symptoms of OCD. Define / be able to identify obsessions and compulsions
How are phobias different from regular fear?
Know about different treatments: Exposure treatments- systematic desensitization, modeling, relaxation training,
mindfulness exercises, CBT, Benzodiazepines, antidepressants, response prevention for OCD
Section 6: Disorders of Stress and Trauma
Symptoms and characteristics of PTSD
What are the major symptom clusters of PTSD (look at the slides: criteria A-E)
Know about medications (antidepressants and benzodiazepines) which is recommended, which is potentially
harmful and why?
Know about different therapies used for PTSD: Prolonged Exposure (PE), Eye Movement Desensitization and
Reprocessing (EMDR), Hypnotherapy, Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET). Which of these therapies has the
most support?
Section 7 Mood Disorders
What are the symptoms of major depression?
What are the symptoms of Bipolar disorder. How is it different from major depression? What are the symptoms of
mania? Know Persistent Depressive disorder and how it is different from the other disorders.
Be able to compare and contrast behavioral, cognitive, and sociocultural views that explain depression
Cognitive views: negative thoughts, automatic thoughts, learned helplessness, cognitive triad
What is ECT, what does it entail?
CBT, Psychodynamic Therapy, Interpersonal Psychotherapy-know what these therapies are and be able to tell the
difference between these therapies. I may ask questions like: “A therapist assigns homework for a client and has
them journal their thoughts, and identify the automatic thoughts and patterns of thinking that are unhelpful
and unrealistic. What type of therapy is this?”
Antidepressant medication (don’t need to know specifics, just know what these medications do), how long do they
take to work? What neurotransmitter does Prozac primarily work on?
Lithium and mood stabilizers for treatment of Bipolar Disorder- What do these medications do?
Section 8 Suicide
Men or Women: Who is more likely to kill themselves? Who is more likely to attempt suicide? Who is more likely
to use firearms? Who is more likely to use more lethal means to attempt suicide?
Categories of people who commit suicide
What are some of the MAJOR things you want to ask in suicide assessment?
Questions about the nature of suicide: are suicide attempts usually highly panned out methodical acts or are they
typically very impulsive spur-of-the-moment behaviors?
Does making the means (e.g. firearms, knives, pills, etc) slightly less accessible make a person less likely to kill
themselves.
