Chapter 68: Caring for Clients With Anxiety Disorders - Nurselytic

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: Initially, a person diagnosed with PTSD avoids dealing with the tragedy and detaches from others using a technique termed psychic numbing. Social phobia is a fear of being in social places. Flashbacks are recurrent nightmares. Guilt may occur from emotional conflicts related to the traumatic experience.

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: Anxiolytics are drugs that relieve the symptoms of anxiety. They are sometimes referred to as minor tranquilizers. The other choices are not alternative names for minor tranquilizers.

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: Major side effects of beta-adrenergic blocking agents include bradycardia and elevated blood glucose levels. They do not cause sedation, hyperglycemia, or addiction.

Correct Answer: D

Rationale: Cognitive therapy is a type of psychotherapy in which the therapist helps clients alter their irrational thinking, correct their faulty belief systems, and replace negative self-statements with positive ones. Desensitization involves providing emotional support while gradually exposing a person to whatever it is that provokes anxiety. Behavioral therapy attempts to extinguish undesirable responses by learning other adaptive techniques. Psychopharmacology is the use of medications to treat various disorders.

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: Fragmented thoughts are a manifestation of panic anxiety. The presence of muscle tenseness is a physical manifestation. In moderate anxiety, perception narrows; in mild anxiety, reality is intact.