Adjustment disorders, Prolonged Grief disorder, dissociative disorders

Question 1

What is an adjustment disorder?

Answer 1

The emergence of emotional or behavioral symptoms occurring within three months of an identifiable
stressor(s)

Question 2

What is prolonged grief disorder?

Answer 2

Prolonged, maladaptive grief reaction

Question 3

How long do you need to have symptoms to be diagnosed with prolonged grief disorder?

Answer 3

12 months
6 months for children
after a loss

Question 4

True or false: DID is characterized by having two or more distinct personality states

Answer 4

True

Question 5

True or false: DID causes recurrent gaps in recall of everyday or traumatic events, personal information

Answer 5

True

Question 6

Different alters DID

Answer 6

Different alters take control at different times, different situations (switching)  can be sudden,
dramatic; may follow a stressful event

Question 7

Do alters know about other alters?

Answer 7

Alters may know about all, some, or none of the other alters

Question 8

True or false: Physiological response differences have been shown among alters

Answer 8

true

Question 9

Can did cause memory disruptions, which ones?

Answer 9

Yes,
1. Significant parts of life or specific events
2. How to perform certain acts or skills
3. May discover evidence of actions s/he does not remember doing

Question 10

USA prevalence for DID

Answer 10

1-2%
more males than females

Question 11

What may play into the formation of DID

Answer 11

Early life trauma (neglect; physical, sexual, emotional abuse) usually by age 5-6 and extending into
adolescence

Question 12

Treatment for DID

Answer 12

Usually, long-term psychotherapy
 Developing safe, trusting relationship w/goal of integrating the
various alters into a single personality

Question 13

Is Dissociative Identity Disorder considered iatrogenic?

Answer 13

Controversial; some believe it may be unintentionally produced by practitioners

Question 14

disassociative amnesia

Answer 14

Inability to recall important biographical information, usually traumatic or stressful

Question 15

What memory is primarily lost with disassociative amnesia?

Answer 15

episodic memory

Question 16

What is the prevalence of disassociative amnesia in the USA?

Answer 16

2%
typically in 30s-40s

Question 17

Dissociative Fugue

Answer 17

sudden, unexpected travel away from one’s home or place of work, w/inability to recall one’s past

Question 18

Depersonalization

Answer 18

experiences of unreality, detachment, being an outside observer to one’s thoughts, feelings, sensations, body, actions

Question 19

Derealization

Answer 19

experiences of unreality, detachment regarding one’s surroundings.