NR 547 Week 2 Quiz Summary

Week 2 Quiz Summary Jan 2025 Session  The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) can help the provider screen for OCD.  Agoraphobia involves intense fear, anxiety, or panic out of proportion to the situation that occurs in 2 or more of 5 specific scenarios  GAD is excessive worry more days than not for at least 6 months.  The treatment of GAD may involve psychotherapy, medication, or both. For most clients with a new diagnosis of GAD requiring treatment, a serotonergic antidepressant in combination with cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is the most widely studied and efÏcacious treatment.  Obsessive-compulsive disorder with belief that failure to complete the compulsion will result in a poor outcome implies delusional beliefs Dear Students, Here is a brief review of the week two quiz. Screening tools are an integral part of the assessment process and tested on frequently. Appropriate screening tools for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) include the Yale- Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale. Please review the elements and scoring of the Yale- Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale. Diagnostic criteria is also a frequently tested item including the diagnostic criteria for Agoraphobia which involves intense fear, anxiety, or panic out of proportion to the situation that occurs in 2 or more of 5 specific scenarios. Please refer to the DSM 5-TR for those criteria and note numeric qualifiers. Additionally the criteria for many disorders included a time qualifier, for instance the criteria for Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is presence of symptoms for 6 months. Please refer to the DSM 5-TR for those criteria for length of symptom presentation. First line treatment for common disorder such as GAD, Unipolar depression and Bipolar Depression have guidelines which direct the provider in medication choice. These guidelines are testable materials. Another item you may see tested on are qualifiers such as the additional issue of delusional beliefs, psychotic features, etc. You may find it easy to identify a primary diagnosis but find the addition of qualifiers more challenging. Again please refer to the DSM 5-TR for those criteria.