A psychiatric–mental health is facilitating a family meeting with a client who has an anxiety disorder and the members of his immediate family. His daughter asks, "What could have caused this for him?"
The nurse should explain that the causes of anxiety disorders are which of the following?
A) A heritable predisposition for a lowered threshold
B) Alterations in brain structure
C) Distorted thinking patterns as a result of lesions
D) Neurobiologic and psychodynamic factors
Ans: D
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According to current research, anxiety disorders have several possible causes. The etiology of anxiety disorders is believed to be a combination of neurobiologic and psychosocial stress.
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