Chapter 6- Anxiety + Somatic Symptoms & Dissociative Disorders Flashcards
Malingering
Intentional production of false or exaggerated symptoms motivated by external incentives
Somatic symptom disorder
A group of disorders where an individual experiences physical symptoms that have no knwon cause
Illness anxiety disorder (hypochondria)
Excessive worry about having or developing a serious illness, despite little or no medical evidence to support such concerns
Functional neurological symptom disorder (conversion disorder)
Sudden loss of functioning of a part of the body usually following a stressor
Factitious disorder
A disorder where an individual intentionally produces or fakes symptoms of illness to receive attention or sympathy, without external incentives in contrast to malingering
Reactive attachment
Trauma and stressor-related disorder that results from significant neglect or trauma. Affected individuals have trouble forming emotional attachments to others
Dissociative identity disorder (DID)
Person develops more than one distinct identity or personality
Dissociative amnesia
Loss of important facts about a persons own life and identity. Usually awareness of this memory loss
Dissociative disorders
Disruption of the normal integration of consciousness, memory, identity, emotion, perception etc.
Anterograde amnesia
Deficit in the ability to learn new information
Retrograde amnesia
Deficit in the ability to recall previously learned information
Dissociative fugue
Disorder in which a person moves away and takes a new identity, completely forgetting the old self
Depersonalization/derealization disorder
Episodes of feeling detached from one’s own body as if you’re outside of yourself. Symptoms must cause distress
Organic amnesia
Memory loss caused by physical damage to the brain
Factitious disorder imposed on another
When someone (usually a caregiver) induces or fabricates symptoms in another person, often a dependent, for attention or sympathy.
