NURS 451 STRESS AND ANXIETY EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED LATEST UPDATE

NURS 451 STRESS AND ANXIETY EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED LATEST UPDATE Terms in this set (34) Eustress A positive, beneficial energy that motivates and results in feelings of happiness, hopefulness, and purposeful movement. Distress A negative draining energy that results in anxiety, depression, confusion, helplessness, hopelessness, and fatigue. Mild Anxiety Occurs in the normal experience of everyday living. Moderate Anxiety Perceptual field narrows; Selective inattention. Severe Anxiety Perceptual field greatly reduced; Learning and problem solving not possible at this level; Behavior aimed at reducing anxiety. Panic Not able to process; May lose touch with reality. Panic Symptoms Delusions, Hallucinations, Diaphoresis, Dilated pupils, Labored breathing, Muscular incoordination, Immobility, Purposeless hyperactivity, Palpitations, Sense of impending doom, Sleeplessness, Trembling, Unusual behaviors, Withdrawal into self. 5 Properties of Defense Mechamisms Manage conflict and affect; Relatively unconscious; Discrete from one another; Often hallmarks of psychiatric syndromes, but reversible; Adaptive as well as pathological. Defense Mechanisms Compensation, Conversion, Denial, Displacement, Dissociation, Identification, Intellectualization, Projection, Rationalization, Reaction formation, Regression, Repression, Splitting, Sublimation, Suppression, Undoing. Anxiety Disorders Most prevalent lifetime psychiatric disorder in the US. Comorbidities of Major depression and Substance abuse. Anxiety Development Trauma/Anxiety producing experience, Amygdala, Hypothalamus, Pituitary gland, Adrenal gland, Sensitization Neuronal Damage, Anxiety disorder. Early Trauma Abandonment, Abuse or Witness of abuse, SA, Role reversal, Neglect. SNS Activation Emotion dysregulation, Condition emotional response, HPA (increased Cortisol), Sympathetic adrenal medulla (increased NE) Emotion Dysregulation Leads to Tension reduction behaviors (cutting, drugs, SI, etc.), Unhealthy defense mechanisms, Dissociation/Avoidance behaviors, Depression/OCD/Panic. Increased stressful life events which reactivate the CNS. Behaviors to Control Anxiety Rigid, Repetitive, Ineffective Functioning in Anxiety Determined by the degree that it interferes with the person, the person's occupation, and the person's social interactions. Types of Anxiety Disorders Separation anxiety, Specific phobia, Social anxiety, Panic disorder, Agoraphobia, Generalized anxiety disorder, OCD, Body dysmorphic disorder, Hoarding disorder, Trichotillomania, Excoriation. Separation Anxiety Disorder Developmentally inappropriate levels of anxiety. Fear of permanent separation diagnosed before age 18. May be r/t loss, change in environment, immigration, physical or sexual assault.