Chapter 6 (BAL)

Question 1

Somatic Symptom and Dissociative Disorders
used to be categorized under one general heading called?

Answer 1

Hysterical neurosis

Question 2

What condition did Sigmund Freud suggest?

Answer 2

Conversion hysteria

Question 3

Unexplained physical symptoms indicated the conversion of unconscious emotional conflicts into a more acceptable form.

Answer 3

Conversion hysteria

Question 4

Hippocrates suggests that the cause of hysteria disorders can be traced to a?

Answer 4

Wandering uterus

Question 5

Refer more generally to physical symptoms without known organic cause or to dramatic or “histrionic” behavior thought to be a
characteristic of women

Answer 5

Hysterical

Question 6

Suggests a specific cause for certain disorders

Answer 6

Neurosis

Question 7

Characterized by a pathological concern with physical functioning or appearance

Answer 7

SOMATIC SYMPTOM AND RELATED DISORDERS

Question 8

Somatic symptom disorder was formerly known as?

Answer 8

Briquet’s syndrome

Question 9

The experience of severe pain in which psychological factors play a major role in
maintaining or exacerbating the pain whether there is a clear physical reason for the
pain or not.

Answer 9

Somatic symptom disorder

Question 10

Course of somatic symptom disorder

Answer 10

Chronic (and fluctuating)

Question 11

Treatments for somatic symptom disorder

Answer 11

Cognitive behavioral therapy
Pharmacotherapy
Psychodynamic therapy

Question 12

Most relevant comorbidity of somatic symptom disorder

Answer 12

Anxiety and depressive disorders

Question 13

ILLNESS ANXIETY DISORDER was formerly known as?

Answer 13

Hypochondriasis

Question 14

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 14

Illness anxiety disorder

Question 15

Illness anxiety disorder is sometimes referred to as?

Answer 15

Disease conviction

Question 16

The belief, accompanied by severe anxiety and sometimes panic, that the genitals are retracting into the abdomen.

Answer 16

Koro

Question 17

Anxious concern about losing semen; associated with a vague mix of physical symptoms, including dizziness, weakness, and fatigue.

Answer 17

Dhat

Question 18

Treatments for illness anxiety disorder

Answer 18

Cognitive behavioral therapy
Antidepressants
Psychodynamic therapy

Question 19

Presence of a diagnosed medical condition clearly caused by a known medical disorder that is adversely affected (increased in frequency or severity) by one or more psychological or behavioral factors.

Answer 19

PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS AFFECTING MEDICAL CONDITION

Question 20

Formerly known as conversion disorder

Answer 20

FUNCTIONAL NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOM DISORDER

Question 21

Physical malfunctioning without any physical or organic pathology to account for the malfunction.

Answer 21

FUNCTIONAL NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOM DISORDER

Question 22

Treatments for FUNCTIONAL NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOM DISORDER

Answer 22

NEUROLOGIST
SPEECH THERAPY
PHYSICAL OR OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
BEHAVIOR THERAPY
STRESS REDUCTION OR DISTRACTION TECHNIQUES
PSYCHOTHERAPY (MENTAL HEALTH OPTION)

Question 23

When an individual falsifies illness in themselves or another

Answer 23

Factitious disorder

Question 24

Falsification of physical or psychological signs or symptoms, or induction of injury or disease, associated with identified deception.

Answer 24

Factitious disorder imposed on self

Question 25

Falsification of physical or psychological signs or symptoms, or induction of injury or disease, in another, associated with identified
deception.

Answer 25

Factitious disorder imposed on others/ By proxy factitious disorder

Question 26

Treatment for Factitious disorder

Answer 26

Psychotherapy

Question 27

A false belief of being pregnant that is associated with objective signs and reported symptoms of pregnancy

Answer 27

Pseudocyesis

Question 28

Characterized by a disruption of and/or discontinuity in the normal integration of
consciousness, memory, identity, emotion, perception, body representation, motor
control, and behavior.

Answer 28

Dissociative disorders

Question 29

When feelings of unreality are so severe and frightening that they dominate an
individual’s life and prevent normal functioning

Answer 29

Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder

Question 30

Your perception alters so that you temporarily lose the sense of your own reality, as if you were in a dream and you were watching yourself.

Answer 30

Depersonalization

Question 31

The individual may feel as if he or she were in a fog, dream, or bubble, or as if there were a veil or a glass wall between the individual and the world around.

Answer 31

Derealization

Question 32

Treatments for Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder

Answer 32

Cognitive techniques/Therapy
Behavioral techniques\Therapy
Grounding techniques/Therapy
Psychodynamic therapy

Question 33

Inability to recall autobiographical information that is inconsistent with normal
forgetting.

Answer 33

DISSOCIATIVE AMNESIA

Question 34

5 types of dissociative amnesia

Answer 34

Localized
Selective
Generalized
Systematized
Continuous

Question 35

Characterized by sudden, unexpected, purposeful travel away from home and bewildered wandering

Answer 35

DISSOCIATIVE FUGUE

Question 36

Type of dissociative amnesia where an individual forgets an event or period of time

Answer 36

Localized

Question 37

Type of dissociative amnesia where an individual forgets specific aspect of an event.

Answer 37

Selective

Question 38

Type of dissociative amnesia where an individual forgets identity and life history.

Answer 38

Generalized

Question 39

Type of dissociative amnesia where an individual has a loss of memory for a specific category of information

Answer 39

Systematized

Question 40

Type of dissociative amnesia which occurs when the individual has no memory of events occurring after a particular event.

Answer 40

Continuous

Question 41

Treatments for dissociative amnesia

Answer 41

hypnosis or a drug-induced semi hypnotic state
Psychotherapy

Question 42

A rare condition in which two or more distinct identities, or personality states, are present
in—and alternately take control of—an individual.

Answer 42

DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER

Question 43

Treatments for DID

Answer 43

long-term psychotherapy
Cognitive and creative therapies
Antidepressants, anti-anxiety drugs, or tranquilizers