Chapter 6 Flashcards
Individuals are pathologically concerned with the functioning of their bodies; have an excessive or maladaptive response to physical symptoms or to associated health concerns.
Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
The Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders are sometimes grouped under the shorthand label of?
Medically unexplained physical symptoms
Individuals experience intense and extreme alterations, or detachments, in consciousness or identity (dissociation or dissociative experiences) that they lose their identity entirely and assume a new one, or they lose their memory or sense of reality and are unable to function.
Dissociative Disorders
3 types of Dissociative Disorders
(i) Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder
(ii) Dissociative Amnesia
(iii) Dissociative Identity Disorder
Somatic symptom and dissociative disorders are strongly linked historically and used to be categorized under one general heading?
Hysterical neurosis
Soma means body, and the problems preoccupying these people seem, initially, to be
physical disorders; important feature of these physical symptoms, such as pain, is that it is real and it hurts whether there are clear physical reasons for pain or not.
SOMATIC SYMPTOM DISORDER
SOMATIC SYMPTOM DISORDER is formerly known as?
Briquet’s syndrome
The most relevant co-occurring mental disorders; due to somatic symptom disorder’s association with suicidal thoughts and suicide
attempts.
Anxiety and depressive disorder
Treatments for SOMATIC SYMPTOM DISORDER
(1) Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
(2) Cognitive Behavioral Treatments (CBT)
(3) Explanatory Therapy
(4) CBT and the drug Paroxetine (Paxil)
Preoccupation with physical symptoms; Physical symptoms are either not experienced at the present time or are very mild, but severe anxiety is focused on the possibility of having or developing a serious disease; the concern is primarily with the idea of being sick instead of the physical symptom itself; individual is preoccupied with bodily symptoms, misinterpreting them as indicative of illness or disease.
ILLNESS ANXIETY DISORDER
ILLNESS ANXIETY DISORDER was formerly known as?
Hypochondriasis
A difficult-to-shake belief about disease.
Disease conviction
Medical care, including physician visits or undergoing tests and procedures, is frequently used.
(ILLNESS ANXIETY DISORDER)
Care-seeking type
Medical care is rarely used
(ILLNESS ANXIETY DISORDER)
Care-avoidant type
Kind of approach used in ILLNESS ANXIETY DISORDER
Better than sorry approach
Treatments for ILLNESS ANXIETY DISORDER
(1) Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
(2) Cognitive Behavioral Treatments (CBT)
(3) Explanatory Therapy
A related somatic symptom; Requires the presence of medical conditions as well as psychological factors that adversely affect its course or interfere its treatment
PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS AFFECTING MEDICAL CONDITION
Generally have to do with physical malfunctioning, such as paralysis,
blindness, or difficulty speaking (aphonia), without any physical or organic pathology to account for the malfunction.
FUNCTIONAL NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOM DISORDER
FUNCTIONAL NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOM DISORDER was formerly known as?
Conversion disorder
Who popularized conversion disorder?
Freud