Chapter 6

Question 1

Individuals are pathologically concerned with the functioning of their bodies; have an excessive or maladaptive response to physical symptoms or to associated health concerns.

Answer 1

Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders

Question 2

The Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders are sometimes grouped under the shorthand label of?

Answer 2

Medically unexplained physical symptoms

Question 3

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.

Answer 3

Dissociative Disorders

Question 4

3 types of Dissociative Disorders

Answer 4

(i) Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder
(ii) Dissociative Amnesia
(iii) Dissociative Identity Disorder

Question 5

Somatic symptom and dissociative disorders are strongly linked historically and used to be categorized under one general heading?

Answer 5

Hysterical neurosis

Question 6

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.

Answer 6

SOMATIC SYMPTOM DISORDER

Question 7

SOMATIC SYMPTOM DISORDER is formerly known as?

Answer 7

Briquet’s syndrome

Question 8

The most relevant co-occurring mental disorders; due to somatic symptom disorder’s association with suicidal thoughts and suicide
attempts.

Answer 8

Anxiety and depressive disorder

Question 9

Treatments for SOMATIC SYMPTOM DISORDER

Answer 9

(1) Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
(2) Cognitive Behavioral Treatments (CBT)
(3) Explanatory Therapy
(4) CBT and the drug Paroxetine (Paxil)

Question 10

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.

Answer 10

ILLNESS ANXIETY DISORDER

Question 11

ILLNESS ANXIETY DISORDER was formerly known as?

Answer 11

Hypochondriasis

Question 12

A difficult-to-shake belief about disease.

Answer 12

Disease conviction

Question 13

Medical care, including physician visits or undergoing tests and procedures, is frequently used.

(ILLNESS ANXIETY DISORDER)

Answer 13

Care-seeking type

Question 14

Medical care is rarely used

(ILLNESS ANXIETY DISORDER)

Answer 14

Care-avoidant type

Question 15

Kind of approach used in ILLNESS ANXIETY DISORDER

Answer 15

Better than sorry approach

Question 16

Treatments for ILLNESS ANXIETY DISORDER

Answer 16

(1) Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
(2) Cognitive Behavioral Treatments (CBT)
(3) Explanatory Therapy

Question 17

A related somatic symptom; Requires the presence of medical conditions as well as psychological factors that adversely affect its course or interfere its treatment

Answer 17

PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS AFFECTING MEDICAL CONDITION

Question 18

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.

Answer 18

FUNCTIONAL NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOM DISORDER

Question 19

FUNCTIONAL NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOM DISORDER was formerly known as?

Answer 19

Conversion disorder

Question 20

Who popularized conversion disorder?

Answer 20

Freud

Question 21

Lack of concern about the nature or
implications of the symptom

Answer 21

La belle indifférence

Question 22

Treatment for FUNCTIONAL NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOM DISORDER

Answer 22

Identify and attend to the traumatic or stressful life event, if it is still present

Question 23

Severe and frightening feeling of unreality that they dominate an individual’s life and
prevent normal functioning

Answer 23

DEPERSONALIZATION/DEREALIZATION DISORDER

Question 24

Perceptual distortions

Answer 24

Tunnel vision

Question 25

Difficulty absorbing new information

Answer 25

Mind emptiness

Question 26

Experiences of unreality, detachment, or being an outside observer with respect to one’s thoughts, feelings, sensations, body, or actions; perception alters and temporarily loses the sense of one’s own reality, as if you were in a dream and you were watching yourself; feeling of unreality or detachment from, or unfamiliarity with, the individual’s whole self or from aspects of the self.

Answer 26

Depersonalization

Question 27

Experiences of unreality or detachment with respect to surroundings; sense of the reality of the external world is lost; feeling of unreality or detachment from, or unfamiliarity with, the world, be it individuals, inanimate objects, or all surroundings

Answer 27

Derealization

Question 28

“I know I have feelings, but I don’t feel them”

Answer 28

Hypoemotionality

Question 29

Mean age at onset of DEPERSONALIZATION/DEREALIZATION DISORDER

Answer 29

16 years

Question 30

Course of DEPERSONALIZATION/DEREALIZATION DISORDER

Answer 30

Persistent

Question 31

Idealization/devaluation, projection, and acting out result in denial of reality and poor adaptation.

Answer 31

Immature defenses

Question 32

Defectiveness and emotional inhibition and subsume themes of abuse, neglect, and deprivation.

Answer 32

Cognitive disconnection schemata

Question 33

Impaired autonomy with themes of dependency, vulnerability, and incompetence.

Answer 33

Overconnection schemata

Question 34

DEPERSONALIZATION/DEREALIZATION DISORDER has high comorbidity for?

Answer 34

Unipolar depressive disorder and for any anxiety disorder

Question 35

Characterized by an inability to recall autobiographical information that is inconsistent with normal forgetting.

Answer 35

Dissociative Amnesia

Question 36

Subtype of dissociative amnesia; characterized by apparently purposeful travel or bewildered wandering

Answer 36

Dissociative Fugue

Question 37

Dissociative Fugue is also called as?

Answer 37

Amnesia for travel

Question 38

Individual enters a trancelike state and suddenly, imbued with a mysterious source of energy, runs or flees for a long time.

Answer 38

Running Disorders

Question 39

Individuals in this trancelike state often brutally assault and sometimes kill people or animals

Answer 39

Amok

Question 40

Types of Dissociative Amnesia

Answer 40

Localized Selective Systematized Generalized

Question 41

A failure to recall events during a circumscribed period of time.

Answer 41

Localized

Question 42

The individual can recall some, but not all, of the events during a circumscribed period of time.

Answer 42

Selective

Question 43

The individual fails to recall a specific category of important information.

Answer 43

Systematized

Question 44

Involves a complete loss of memory for most or all of the individual’s life history.

Answer 44

Generalized

Question 45

Characterized by a) the presence of two or more distinct personality states or an experience of possession and b) recurrent episodes of dissociative amnesia.

Answer 45

Dissociative Identity Disorder

Question 46

The person who becomes the patient and asks for treatment of DID.

Answer 46

Host

Question 47

Transition from one personality to another

Answer 47

Switch

Question 48

Causes of DID

Answer 48

● Child abuse ● Childhood trauma

Question 49

Treatment for DID

Answer 49

● Long-term psychotherapy ● Medications

Question 50

This category applies to presentations in which symptoms characteristic of a dissociative disorder that cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning predominate but do not meet the full criteria for any of the disorders in the dissociative disorders diagnostic class.

Answer 50

Other Specified Dissociative Disorder