RT Book, Section
A1 Lee, Kelly C.
A2 Sutton, S. Scott
SR Print(0)
ID 7255053
T1 Chapter 55. Anxiety Disorders
T2 McGraw-Hill's NAPLEX® Review Guide
YR 2011
FD 2011
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-175562-7
LK accesspharmacy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=7255053
RD 2024/04/19
AB Anxiety  disorders,  as  a  group,  are  the  most  common  psychiatric  disorders  in  the  United  States  with  the  exception  of  substance  abuse  disorders.1  Anxiety  disorders  are  divided  into  six  different  disorders  with  different  clinical  presentations,  prevalence/incidence,  pathophysiology,  treatments,  and  prognosis.  These  include  panic  disorder  (PD),  generalized  anxiety  disorder  (GAD),  obsessive-compulsive  disorder  (OCD),  post-traumatic  stress  disorder  (PTSD),  social  anxiety  disorder  (SAD),  and  specific  phobic  disorders.  Specific  phobia  refers  to  an  individual's  phobia  or  fear  of  certain  objects  or  situations  and  is  rarely  treated  with  medications.2  Specific  phobia  will  not  be  addressed  in  this  chapter.  It  should  also  be  noted  that  for  patients  to  be  diagnosed  with  any  of  the  anxiety  disorders  discussed  below,  the  symptoms  must  not  be  due  to  a  general  medical  condition  or  substance  and  the  symptoms  must  cause  significant  impairment  in  social  or  occupational  functioning.2