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disorders that appear to be medical but are actually caused by psychosocial factors   somatoform disorders (patient almost always believes genuinely medical)  
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patterns ofmemory loss and identity change that are caused almost entirely psychosocial factors rather than physical ones   dissociative disorders  
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actual change in physical functioning as result of psych disorder   hysterical somatoform disorders  
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people who are healthy mistakenly worry something physicall wrong   preoccupation somatoform disorders  
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three hysterical somatoform disorders   conversion disorder, somatiziation disorder, pain disorder associated with psych factors  
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psychosocial conflict or need >> into drmatic physical sysmtoms that affect voluntary motor or sensory functioning   conversion disorder (symptoms often seem neurological like paralysis, blindness)  
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onset of conversion disorder   late childhood and young adulthood (appear SUDDENLY)  
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conversion disorder women : men   2 to 1  
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frequency of conversion disorder   5 in 1,000  
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long term physical ailments that have little or no organic basis   somatization disorder  
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symptoms that must be part of disorder for somatization diagnosis   seeverl pain symptoms (i.e. headaches, chest pain); gastrointestinal problems (nausesa and diarrhea); sexual symptom; neurological symptom (blindness, paralysis)  
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briquettes syndrome   somatization disorder  
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occurence in US, women and me   women: b/w .2 and 2.0% in any given year >> families: 20% of close female relatives of women with disorder develop it men: less than .2%  
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somatization disorder onset   adolescence and young adulthood  
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% of people with somatization disorder who receive treatment for physical ailments/yr   2/3rds  
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psychosocial factors play central role in onset, severity or continuation of pain   pain disorder associated with psychological factors (often develops with accident or illness that has caused genuine pain)  
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women : men pain disorder   women more likely  
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ways doctors distinguish b/w real pain and pain disorder   -goes against way nervous system is known to work (glove anestesia) -persons muscles dont atrophy in paralysis  
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intentional faking of illness for external gain   malingering  
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patient intentionally produces or fakes symptoms out of wish to be a patient   factitious disorder  
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extreme and long term form of factitious disorder   munchausen (munchausen by proxy= parents make up or produce physical illnesses in their children 6-30% of these children die)  
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category for hypochondriasis and body dysmorphic disorder   preoccupation somatoform disorders  
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people unrealistically interpret bodily symptoms as signs of serious illness   hypochondriasis ( 6 months or more)  
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hypochondriasis: onset and women : men   early adulthood, men and women equally affected 1-5% experience disorder  
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% of patients seen by primary care physicians w/ hypochondriasis   7%  
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people deeply concerned about some imaged or minor defect in their appearance (most often focus on wrinkles, spots, facial hair)   body dysmorphic disorder  
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% of people with bdd that seek plastic surgery   50% (15% of people overall who seek plastic surgery  
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men : women bdd   equal  
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somatoform disorders: behaviorist perspective   learned thru classical conditioning or modeling  
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somatoform disorders: cognitive theorists   people with disorders are so sensitive to and threatened by bodily cues that they come to misinterpret them  
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anna O   person freud treated for somatoform disorder: hysterical deafness, paralysis etc. ; part of basis for his belief that underlying conflicts convert into physical symptoms  
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girls sexual feelings towards father (freud), if parents over react to sexual feelings, develop:   electra complex - electra conflict will be unresolved and child will experience sexual anxiety --- during PHALLIC STAGE (3-5yrs)  
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psychodynamic theorists proposed mechanisms at work in hysterical somatoform disorders (2)   1. primary gain- keep internal conflicts out of awareness 2. secondary gain - symptoms further enable them to avoid unpleasant activities or receive sympathy from others  
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hysterical disorders: behavioral view   physical symptoms bring rewards to sufferers-remove individuals from unpleasant relationship or attention. in response, display more prominently. (often develops after friend has similar medical issue)  
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hysterical disorders: cognitive view   hysterical disorders are forms of communication, expressin emotions otherwise hard to convey *also believe that they're converting emotions into physical but different is not to defend against axiety but COMMUNICATE feelings in a familiar way  
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hysterical disorders:   -transformation of of personal distress into somatic complaints isnorm in non-western cultures  
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why placebos work   belief or expectation can trigger certain chemicals thruout body into action - can spark interhnal healing  
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treatment for preoccupation somatoform   - antidepressant drugs -exposure and response prevention (prevented from checking appearance) -cognitive: identify, test and change distorted thoughts about appearance  
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treatment for hysterical somatoform   focus on cause of disorder (trauma, anxiety) psychodynamic: try to help individuals become conscious of and resolve fears -behavior: exposure treatment, repeated exposure -biological: antianxiety or antidepressants  
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ways to address phyiscal symptoms in hysterical disorders   suggestion reinforcement (remove rewards for sick behaviors), conforontation (force out of sick role by straightforwardly telling them dont have physical basis  
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increase in number of asian women who pursue cosmetic surgery   sevenfold  
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key to our best present and future   memory!  
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when changes to memory lack clear physical cause   dissociative disorder  
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disorder in which people feel as though they have become detached from their own mental processes or body and are observing from outside   depersonalization disorder  
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most common form of amnesia- person loses all memory of events that took place within a limited period of time (usually disturbing occurence)   localized amnesia (forgotten period called amestic episode)  
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second most common form of dissociative amnesia- remember some but not all events that occur during a period of time   selective amnesia  
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amnesia in which can't remember earlier periods of life in addition to traumatic event   generalized amnesia (in extreme cases might not recognize family and friends)  
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amnesia in which forgetting continues into the present   continuous amensia (more likely in organic amnesia)  
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% of population with dissocitative fugue   .2%  
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3 types of relationships in DID   -mutually amnesic relationships (no awareness of one another) -mutually cognizant patterns (well aware of rest) -oneway amnesic relationships *most common*subpersonalities are aware of others, but awareness not mutual -co-conscious subpersonalities  
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co conscious personalities   quiet observers personalities who watch actions and thoughts of other subpersonalities but do not interact  
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DID produced by practitioners   iatrogenic  
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dissociative disorders: psychodynamic perspective   caused by repression. DID is thought to result from a lifetime of excessive repression esp of abusive parenting  
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dissociative disorders: behavioral   learned via operant conditioning (relief)  
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steps taken in therapy for DID   1. recognize fully the nature of the their sidorder 2. recover the gaps in their memory and 3. integrate their subpersonalities into one funtional personality  
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