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Ch. 6 D&S disorders
Dissociative and Somatoform
Question | Answer |
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Malingering | "Fake" Disorder. Lying and Cheating |
Dissociative Disorders | Disturbances or changes in memory, conciousness or identity due to psychological factors |
Dissociative Amnesia | inability to recall information |
Dissociative Fugue | Inability to recall personal identity. -Sudden departure to new area. |
Depersonalization | -Feelings of being detached from your body. -May feel things are unreal. |
Dissociative Identity Disorder (MPD-->DID) | -Person adopts new personalities. -Avg. # is 15. -Affects women > men. - Other disorders suffered. -Rare outside of western cultures. |
Etiology of Dissociative Disorders | -Difficult to differentiate real cases. -Psychodynamic perspective: Repression. -Behavioral perspective: Indirect avoidance of stress. -Modeling. -Latrogenic: Therapeutic situation |
Treatment | -Medications treat accompanying anxiety. -Psychoeducation, group rescources, and cog/soc training. |
Schizophrenia = voices from outside | DID = Voices from Inside |
Somatization Disorder | History of vague multiple and physical complaints before age of 30 |
Muchausen | Factitious Disorders (Attention Seeking) |
Hypochondriasis | -Severe anxiety over physical problems. -Affects women & men equally. -Belief of severe illness |
Treatment of Disorders | -Biological: Comorbid. -Psychodynamic. -Behavioral. -Family Systems Treatment |
Causes for Hypochondriasis | -Faulty interpretation of physical sensations. -Intensified focus on symptoms. -Increased Anxiety |
Body Dysmorphic Disorder | Socially disabling preoccupation w/ normal physical feature that is believed to be hideous. Ex: Fatter than one really is. |
Undifferentiated Somatoform Disorder | -One or more physical complaints. -Duration of six months or more residual category for somatization disorder. |
Conversion Disorder | -Loss or disturbance of physical functioning resembling a physical disorder. -Psychological factors: Initiating symptoms, allowing individual to avoid aversive activity, receiving reinforcements for sick behavior |
Pain Disorder | -Reports of severe pain. -no physiological no neurological basis, (2) be greatly in excess of that expected with an existing physical condition, (3) linger long after physical injury healed. |