NURS6635-Psychotheraphy

Week 4: Anxiety Disorders, PTSD, and OCD

Your own experiences might tell you that expectations from family, friends, and work—as well as your own expectations regarding achievement, success, and happiness—can create stress. Stressors are a normal part of life, and stress traditionally has been viewed as an adaptive function with a set of physiological responses to a stressor. In a situation where stress is perceived, the organism is physiologically prepared to attack or flee from the threat. Those with effective fight or flight responses tended to survive long enough to reproduce, so we are descended from those who are genetically hardwired for self-protection. When you experience stress, your biology, emotions, social support, motivation, environment, attitude, immune function, and wellness all feel the ripple effect.

This stress response is an adaptive response the human body has to threats; however, stress can also be difficult to handle and—depending upon the nature and intensity of the stress—can result in anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders, or trauma- and stressor-related disorders. This week, you will focus on these disorders and explore strategies to accurately assess and diagnose them.

Learning Objectives

Students will:

• Apply concepts, theories, and principles related to patient interviewing, diagnostic reasoning, and recording patient information

• Formulate differential diagnoses using DSM-5 criteria for patients with anxiety disorders, PTSD, and OCD across the lifespan

Learning Resources

Required Readings (click to expand/reduce)

https://doi-org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596.dsm05

https://doi-org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596.dsm06

https://doi-org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596.dsm06

Sadock, B. J., Sadock, V. A., and Ruiz, P. (2015). Kaplan & Sadock’s synopsis of psychiatry (11th ed.). Wolters Kluwer.

• Chapter 9, Anxiety Disorders

• Chapter 10, Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders

• Chapter 11, Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders

• Chapter 31.11 Trauma-Stressor Related Disorders in Children

• Chapter 31.13 Anxiety Disorders in Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence

• Chapter 31.14 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Childhood and Adolescence

https://class.content.laureate.net/dfa2ac82c15e5bd9113bb68d08e120f8.docx

https://class.content.laureate.net/dfa2ac82c15e5bd9113bb68d08e120f8.docx

Required Media (click to expand/reduce)

https://ezp.waldenulibrary.org/login?qurl=https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/anxiety-disorders

https://ezp.waldenulibrary.org/login?qurl=https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/the-neurobiology-of-anxiety

https://ezp.waldenulibrary.org/login?qurl=https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/obsessive-compulsive-disorders

https://ezp.waldenulibrary.org/login?qurl=https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/trauma-ptsd-and-trauma-informed-care

https://ezp.waldenulibrary.org/login?qurl=https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/trauma-ptsd-and-trauma-informed-care

Select one of the following videos to use for your Assignment this week. Then, access the document “Case History Reports” and review the additional data about the patient in the specific video number you selected.

https://video-alexanderstreet-com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/watch/training-title-40

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