Cognitive Factors Involved in Anxiety Disorders Include

question 75

Multiple Choice

Cognitive factors involved in anxiety disorders include:

• A) dysfunctional attitudes, beliefs and thinking abilities.
• B) maladaptive attitudes, beliefs and interpretive biases.
• C) maladaptive beliefs, schemas, attention and processing biases, and automatic thoughts.
• D) over-exaggerations in terms of number and degree of threats to the self.
• E) over-exaggerations only in terms of degree of threats to the self.

Understand the implications of biased sampling on the validity of research findings and representation of demographic groups.

Understand the importance and criteria for selecting and evaluating nursing theories for practice.

Recognize the role of nursing practice in developing, testing, refining, and discovering nursing theories.

Comprehend the primary purpose of nursing theory in the development and advancement of nursing as a discipline.

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Definitions:

Systematic Desensitization

A therapy technique used to treat phobias and anxiety, involving gradual exposure to the feared object or situation while practicing relaxation techniques.

Phobia of Closed Spaces

A phobia of closed spaces, commonly known as claustrophobia, is an anxiety disorder characterized by an irrational fear of being confined in small or enclosed spaces.

Cognitive Therapy

A form of psychotherapy that emphasizes the role of thinking in how we feel and in what we do, aimed at changing negative patterns of thought.

Major Depressive Disorder

A mental disorder characterized by a persistent and intense feeling of depression that affects how a person feels, thinks, and handles daily activities.