Working through the questions should help point out areas you need to spend more time further reviewing. Also, please look over the review guide in the module section.
Psychosocial
1. What is the most common psychi
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Working through the questions should help point out areas you need to spend more time further reviewing. Also, please look over the review guide in the module section.
Psychosocial
1. What is the most common psychiatric disorder in the United States? A: Anxiety
2. What are the DSM-5 symptom criteria for a diagnosis of general anxiety disorder?
1. The presence of excessive anxiety and worry about a variety of topics, events, or activities. Worry occurs more often than not for at least 6 months and is clearly excessive.
2. The worry is experienced as very challenging to control. The worry in both adults and children may easily shift from one topic to another.
3. The anxiety and worry are accompanied with at least three of the following physical or cognitive symptoms (In children, only one symptom is necessary for a diagnosis of GAD):
Note: Only one item required in children.
A. Restlessness, feeling keyed up or on edge.
B. Being easily fatigued.
C. Difficulty concentrating or mind going blank.
D. Irritability.
E. Muscle tension.
F. Sleep disturbance (difficulty falling or staying asleep, or restless, unsatisfying sleep).
4. The anxiety, worry, or physical symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
5. The disturbance is not attributable to the physiological effects of a substance (e.g., a drug of abuse, a medication) or another medical condition (e.g., hyperthyroidism).
6. The disturbance is not better explained by another medical disorder (e.g., anxiety or worry about having panic attacks in panic disorder, negative evaluation in social anxiety disorder [social phobia], contamination or other obsessions in obsessive-compulsive
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