Explain illness anxiety, CBT and collaborative care — CASC communication station

Station brief

Format. Communication station, approximately 7–10 minutes active time after reading. You are the psychiatry registrar in the outpatient clinic. ^[2]

Candidate instructions. Explain illness anxiety disorder in plain language, outline specialised CBT with exposure and response prevention elements, discuss a possible SSRI (e.g. fluoxetine or sertraline) with delayed full benefit, explain why further imaging without new clinical change is not the treatment, address partner reassurance, and check understanding. The examiner plays the patient. ^[1][4]