6: Somatic Symptom and Dissociative Disorders Flashcards
Disorder characterized with preoccupation with becoming seriously ill over a period of 6 months
Illness Anxiety Disorder
Disorder characterized by one or more distressing somatic symptoms with excessive thoughts, feelings, or behaviors related to those symptoms over a period of 6 months
Somatic Symptom Disorder
Disorder characterized by one or more neurological symptoms without a medical cause
Conversion Disorder
Disorder characterized by faked illnesses for some reason
Factitious Disorder
Medical disorder that is influenced by psychological elements
Psychophysiological disorder
Dishonesty about illness for financial gain
Malingering
Treatments for Illness Anxiety Disorder
- Antidepressants
- Exposure and response prevention
Treatments for Somatic Symptom Disorder
- Seldom treated
- Some new CBT trials
Iatrogenic Factors in Healthcare (5)
- Fear of missing a disease
- Fear of complaints and defensive medicine
- Lack of knowledge of somatization
- Time pressure and fear of dependency
- Lack of accessible psychiatric treatment
Factitious disorder that is enacted upon another person
Factitious disorder imposed on another (by proxy)
Dissociative disorders involve…
major losses or changes in memory, consciousness, or identity and do not have physical causes
Disorder characterized by persistent episodes of depersonalization or derealization where reality remains intact
Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder
Disorder characterized by an inability to recall important autobiographical information
Dissociative Amnesia
Disorder characterized by disruption of identity through distinct personality states and gaps in recall of everyday events
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
Types of amnesia
- Organic (injury) or psychogenic (psychological)
- Retrograde (inability to remember past memories)
