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Somatic
Ch 6 + Dissociative
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Somatic | physical; relating to the body |
| Somatic Symptom Disorders | experiencing significant physical symptoms for which there's no apparent organic cause for more than 6 months |
| La Belle Indifference | when soldiers would become paralyzed or blind but unconcerned with their symptoms |
| Dissociative Disorders | disturbance in memory, consciousness, or identity (unable to recall important personal events, etc.) |
| Dissociation | which different parts of an individual's identity, memories, or consciousness split off from one another. |
| Anterograde Amnesia | inability to remember new information (short-term) |
| Retrograde Amnesia | inability to remember past information |
| Psychogenic Amnesia | caused by psychological factors & rarely involves anterograde amnesia, usually retrograde for personal info |
| Organic Amnesia | caused by biological factors, usually involving anterograde & can involve retrograde for personal & general info |
| What was Illness Anxiety Disorder formerly known as? | Hypochondriasis |
| Illness Anxiety Disorder | Worry about having or developing a serious illness for at least 6 months |
| What is the goal of the treatment of dissociative identity disorders? | - having all alters be apart of one identity or lessening the need of some alters / having them "mesh" into other ones, making need for distinct splits less necessary - help rebuild trust for healthy relationships |
| Which treatment focuses on helping clients recall events and memories that may have triggered their somatization symptoms? | psychodynamic |
| When people with dissociative identity disorder report hearing voices talking inside their heads, they may be misdiagnosed as having | schizophrenia |
| Dissociative Amnesia | – inability to recall important autobiographical (name, birthday, birth place) information, typically of a traumatic nature |
| Dissociative Fugue | suddenly moving away from home & assuming an entirely new identity |
| What disorder has a high comorbidity with DID? | PTSD |
| What was dissociative identity disorder formerly known as? | multiple personality disorder |
| Conversion Disorder | loss of neurologic functioning in a sensory or motor area of the body w/o physical cause |
| Glove Anesthesia | loss of all feeling in hand |
| Factitious Disorder | deliberate faking of an illness to gain attention |
| What is Munchhausen's Syndrome? | factitious disorder |
| Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another | Falsifying illness in another person or animal to gain attention (on primary person/caregiver) |
| People diagnosed with somatic symptom disorder frequently have periods of ...? | anxiety, depression, & substance abuse |
| What's the difference between Illness Anxiety Disorder & Somatic Symptom Disorder | someone w/ illness anxiety disorder may have MILD, physical symptoms |
| Psychodynamic Therapy for Somatic Symptom & Illness Anxiety | provide insight into the connection between emotional + physical symptoms |
| Behavioral Therapy for Somatic Symptom & Illness Anxiety | reward healthy behaviors & remove rewards related to symptoms |
| Cognitive Therapy for Somatic Symptom & Illness Anxiety | challenge catastrophizing & learn to interpret physical symptoms appropriately |
| Belief Systems for Somatic Symptom & Illness Anxiety | address cultural, religious, & other belief systems that may affect symptoms |
| Malingering | intentional production of false or grossly exaggerated physical or psychological symptoms motivated by external incentives |
| People with DID claim to have significant periods of... | amnesia |
| What was Conversion Disorder renamed to? | functional neurological symptom disorder? |
| What symptoms do children with DID have? | - flashbacks - hypervigilance - exaggerated startle response |
| What are the primary forms of dissociative amnesia? | selective, localized, generalized |
| Research indicates that the ability and tendency to dissociate as a coping mechanism in dissociative identity disorder may, to some extent..... | is biologically determined |
| Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder | Episodic feelings of detachment from one’s own mental processes or body, like an outside observer of oneself |
| Depersonalization | experiences of unreality, detachment, or being an outside observer of one’s thoughts, feelings, sensations, body, or actions (distorted sense of time) |
| Derealization | experiences of unreality or detachment w/ respect to surroundings (unreal, dreamlike, foggy, lifelessness, or visually distorted) |
| What is an behavior therapist's view of conversion disorder? | - symptoms allow patients to avoid unwanted responsibilities/situations - symptoms alleviate distress by removing client from difficult environments |