Which of the following is easily integrated into standard ...

[londonang]

Which of the following is easily integrated into standard clinical practice, is a natural flow, is not directly tied to DSM criteria, and is subject to clinician bias?
 
  a. Questionnaire
  b. Unstructured clinical interview
  c. Structured clinical interview
  d. Informant ratings

Question 2

Choose any three anxiety disorders and compare and contrast them.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[isabelt_18]

Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

Student responses should include at least three of the following, noting their similarities and differences:
- anxiety disorders involve excessive worry, anxiety, or fear
- panic attacks involve intense physical feelings and thoughts that one will lose control
- panic disorder refers to regular unexpected panic attacks and worry about the consequences of these attacks
- social phobia refers to intense and ongoing fear of potentially embarrassing situations, often in the form of expected panic attacks
- specific phobias refer to excessive, unreasonable fear of an object or situation
- generalized anxiety disorder refers to extreme levels of persistence, uncontrollable worry
- obsessive-compulsive disorder refers to the presence of obsessions, troublesome and recurrent thoughts, and compulsions, or physical or mental acts performed in a response to the obsession to lessen distress
- posttraumatic stress disorder refers to constantly experiencing a traumatic event images, memories, nightmares, flashbacks, illusions, or other ways
- acute stress disorder refers to short-term anxiety and associated symptoms following trauma
- separation anxiety disorder refers to children with excessive worry about being away from home or from close family members

[londonang]

Thank you!

[isabelt_18]

Happy to help