Anxiety Disorders: Sort the Symptoms

Here's a new quiz type: Sort the Symptoms. Something extra to help you get ready for the social work licensing exam.

We've got the DSM open to the Anxiety Disorders chapter. Your job. Take the symptoms below and place them where the belong. Your choices are:

Panic Disorder
Agoraphobia
Separation Anxiety Disorder
Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

Each symptom fits best in one of those.

Ready? Go!

Sensations of shortness of breath or smothering. 

Restlessness or feeling keyed up or on edge.

Excessive worry about losing major attachment figures. 

Paresthesias (numbness or tingling sensations)

Marked anxiety standing or line or being in a crowd.

Difficulty concentrating or mind going blank. 

Excessive worry about getting lost or being kidnapped.

Palpitations, pounding heart, or accelerated heart rate.

What do you think?

Sorting symptoms is good mental exercise to get you into shape to pass the ASWB exam. It's not what real exam questions look like. Questions on the exam are generally somewhat complicated vignettes about patients and their presentation. What is the BEST action for the social worker to take. What is the MOST likely diagnosis. Multiple choice, 170 questions, four hours. To really get ready, nothing beats full-length, realistic exam practice like the tests at SWTP. Happy studying.

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GAD
Restlessness or feeling keyed up or on edge.
Difficulty concentrating or mind going blank.

Agoraphobia
Marked anxiety standing or line or being in a crowd.

Panic Disorder
Palpitations, pounding heart, or accelerated heart rate.
Sensations of shortness of breath or smothering.
Paresthesias (numbness or tingling sensations)

Separation Anxiety Disorder
Excessive worry about losing major attachment figures.
Excessive worry about getting lost or being kidnapped.